Topic: F'n Cagers cap off a crappy ass week

[super pasty white guy]

Today I'm suiting up and looking at my mirrors thinking that maybe I'll etch a "Caution:  Cagers are dumber than they appear" warning on the bottom of the glass, you know just for giggles.

Get to the barber shop for a haircut and for some reason, I'm thinking "I'd better park this right in the middle of the spot to minimize the risk that someone hits me." 

Come out 20 minutes later to find that a minivan driver backed into what he thought was an empty space.  Knocked it over, bent the taillight bracket, the license plate bracket, scratched up my 2 month old napoleons, scratched my newly polished and clear coated stator cover.  The inevitable gas leak managed to finish off the crappy ass paint job from the PO.

This has been one crappy week overall since, well let's just say that my wife and I now have a "complicated relationship".

Just needing to vent I guess

spwg

[peten]

could be worse--you could have been on the bike at the time.  look on the bright side-now you don't have any more excuses not to paint the tank.

peace.  and happy holidays.

[bunghole]

I hope the guy that hit it stuck around.  Did he?

[super pasty white guy]

Yeah, as I was inspecting the damage, he came over with his contact info and explanation (didn't see it).  Kinda hard to be mad at someone who's honest.  That and the fact that I wasn't on it and that there wasn't any irreparable damage.  Told him I could take care of the damage from my parts bin and not to worry.  Little guy too-  I'd have liked to watch him pick it back up.

spwg

[MCRider]

Hang in there!

[bunghole]

Hang in there!

Nice!

By the way, I was at work one day and I hear the alarm on my Harley go off.  I look out the window and a car had dragged the bike out of the spot about two feet.  Bike didn't even go down.  No damage, but about $400 in damage to the car.  I knew the guy that did it, so there were no hard feelings.  Stuff happens.

Make sure you get compensated for anything you fix from the "parts bin".  As we all know, parts ain't cheap.

[74cb750]

Wow! at least the guy was honest.

[TwoTired]

My sympathies, really.

But, whenever you think you've had a bad week, walk the halls of your local hospital and have a chat with the occupants.

Far worse things can happen than a dent or scratch in your machine.  Besides, it's not like you were ON the bike at the time.

Cheers,

[super pasty white guy]

I know what your sayin' TT.  The bike is just an inconvenience and truly didn't have anything to do with the bad week.  And I still got to ride home into an absolutely amazing sunset and make myself some dinner in my nice warm house. 

spwg

[tramp]

under the circumstances it turned out well
your good the bike is repairable and the driver was honest

[heffay]

My sympathies, really.

But, whenever you think you've had a bad week, walk the halls of your local hospital and have a chat with the occupants.

Far worse things can happen than a dent or scratch in your machine.  Besides, it's not like you were ON the bike at the time.

Cheers,

thanks mom.




sorry about your machine pasty... happened w/ my 350 when i first got it and it happened w/ elizabeth's vfr on our maiden voyage after i put all new plastics on it from being totalled a couple of months before.  its a real bummer.

and i don't doubt that you already knew your situation could be much worse.   

[TwoTired]

My sympathies, really.

But, whenever you think you've had a bad week, walk the halls of your local hospital and have a chat with the occupants.

Far worse things can happen than a dent or scratch in your machine.  Besides, it's not like you were ON the bike at the time.

Cheers,

thanks mom.

Oh, Heffay, you can be such a good, polite boy when you want to. 
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