Street parking sucks., Garbage can vs. car Options

[soltrain]

I have street parking in Berkeley because it's only $30 for a year from the city instead of $50 bucks a month for a private parking spot through my apartment. So last weekend, I parked my car on the street in front of my house. There was this heavy black plastic garbage can sitting on the sidewalk in front of the car, but I didn't take too much note of it and happily went on my way inside the house.

When I came back out the next morning, the garbage can was knocked off the sidewalk and lay on the street next to my car. I looked closer and it left this dent about the side of a half dollar on my drivers side door!

AGUHG@!# WHY! What the hell? Bad karma? This thing has gotta cost at least a hundred bucks to fix. I was so angry - took it out on the trashcan and kicked it back cross the sidewalk. I still haven't gotten around to getting a quote on fixing the dent yet. <sigh>

Man, the guy I bought the car from lived in San Jose, and was a Berkeley grad. When I told him I was a Berkeley student he told me "You're taking it back to Berkeley - it's gonna get beat up"

Dag. I was fine until now. Shoo.




This post has been edited by soltrain: Apr 24, 2005 - 11:48 PM

[blu94gt]

Last year I parked my Prelude in the street and NOTHING happened to it, no dents, scratches, etc etc. This year I'm in the parking lot (which I pay extra for) and before I sold it in March the Prelude got hit twice and countless door dings. The Celica has been in the same lot for about 3 weeks now and has 4 new dents and a scratch on the front.

I would think that by the time ppl get to college they would at least be able to park a ****ing car, but I guess I thought wrong.