[Jims5543]

I think I told this story before.

Years ago we leased an Audi A-6. 2 weeks later we were in a shopping strip plaza, we had parked at the far end of a row on purpose and I purposefully parked one space over from the end. This way if a car parked next to me there was a 50/50 chance there would be a passenger, I was on the passenger side. I had thought this through.

We walked down to a crappy chain Deli / restaurant for a bite to eat for dinner, it happened to be at the end of the row we were on.

When we came out we were walking down the row, it was pretty empty, once you passed 10 cars at the close end there were no cars for 20 spaces until you go to me. A white passenger van was parked in the space past me, the entire row was empty and there was this van parked right next to me at the farthest space. He is on the line between the spaces crowding my car.

As we were walking up I am thinking, why? We walk up and as I round the drivers side I see the door ding, the side door of the van white paint transferred to my charcoal paint. I am seething.

I walk back into the deli and tell the hostess that a white van in the parking lot left it lights on.

I got back and wait, I am guessing I did not hide my anger well because the owner of the van was walking out with his waitress following him.

As he walks up he looks confused, he lights are not on. I then say to him as he is walking up, "Can I ask you a question, this entire parking lot is empty, why did you park on top of my car?"

I get a stupid look back..

I then point to the side of my car at the door ding. I told him, it was a 2 week old leased car and he was paying to fix that, I then asked if we need the police here.

He gave me all his info and apologized, still with no answer as to why he parked on top of me.

Then the stupid waitress jumps in and starts using her dish rag on my car rubbing the paint scuff, I about lost my mind, I told her to stop scratching my paint, as she declares it is coming off. I really didn't want to put my hands on her but she was not listening to me as I walked towards her telling her again to stop rubbing that dirty rag on my car she stopped.

I got in my car and left. I was able to compound the paint off and was extremely lucky my paint had not chipped and there was no dent. Hard to see in the dark in a parking lot at night.

It gave me great satisfaction confronting a idiot in person for once.