Rebel insurgents have landed in your hometown, what do you do?

[KillerMuffin]

I'm talking about those guys/gals who stick things under your windshield wiper. Anything and everything from Pizza deals to carwash menus. I believe this highly offensive practice is called "fliering" or somesuch. I was at After Dark Video, the local 24 hour a day never closes it's doors porn and novelty shop, discussing, of all things, why I wouldn't sing in the Church Chior, with a rather large dildo in my hand. Not for me, bachelorette party, I wanted to come prepared. So this conversation lasted for a while, even after I'd paid for my purchase and added a tube of Wett and some glow in the dark condoms. I finally manage to get out of there and what do I see? The windshield of my precious, wonderful, sweet baby covered with one of those nasty obscene flier things from a local BBQ restaurant. I called the manager upon return home and yelled at him for 15 minutes about how incredibly disrespectful of my property it is to put things under the windshield wiper. Number 1) It's not good for the wiper. The wiper isn't designed to hold paper, nor should it be lifted and snapped for purposes other than knocking ice or snow off of it. Number 2) I have a tall ass honkin truck. I can't reach the windshield wipers without a stool. This tells me that some freak was leaning (horrors!) upon the glorious glossy olive drab finish of my truck. Belt buckles, rivets in jeans, keys, or chevyluvver skin could have touched and contaminated the paint on my baby. I was Outraged!! Number 3) Good gawd these people are cheap! Why not buy an ad on TV? Or through my local internet company where I'm more likely to see it? I have half a mind to go out and commit senseless acts of violence. Like pouring milk on the back door of the restaurant in question.

The upshot, I got free BBQ. I'm going to dump it on the hood of the manager's car. Or I'm I blowing this all out of proportion?

 

[Silverlily]

Absolutely not. I caught some kid sticking one on our Impala once. Ripped him a new one, then threatened to sue the place that was being promoted if I found any scratches.

My attitude is, if you did that s#@% at my house, you'd get shot, why should my car be any different?

 

[Never]

As it is your property you may react, however you wish - unless it's to molest other's property.
I'm always fascinated about what people feel protective of; today as I was walking to my car a gentleman swung open his car door and gave mine a firm 'thunk.' I simply looked at him while he realized someone was watching him. (And whom that someone was)

I shrugged after he murmured 'sorry', hopped in and drove off. A dent is a dent, my car is already 8 years old, and what I care about most is its ability to get me from point A to B.

Likewise my hair. I know many people who don't like to be touched (myself included) but at my new workplace people are tugging my hair on a daily basis. My co-workers, my coach, the coach lead, the people at the Q, the supervisor, the night supervisor, the general supervisor, the other 5 coaches...
Today while I was eating lunch, the guy who changes the vending machine gave it a yank. I guess I've just gotten used to it - they did it on my other job too.

I have a baggy pair of pants my mother borrows and she's always rummaging around in my sock drawer.
My rather large 'boom box' disappeared for two weeks when Tom and Mom took a vacation. My desk at work has become a grazing sight - teenagers pass by and dig through a large bottom drawer I have for nutra-grain bars and gum. I locked the drawer last week (I kept my pocket book in there while I worked at the DC) and my coach wondered if I was angry with him.

The point of these paragraphs being - no you're not overacting. You're just balancing all the Never's of the world.

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[KillerMuffin]

You are a sweetie Never.

My paint job ran about $5,000, thats in American Dollars, not pesos. Custom color, you know. It's finished, time to sell it and start all over.

I need a ooooh, a 75-79 dodge powerwagon, preferably 3/4 ton, but a 1 ton will work, 4 wheel drive. As long as the rust isn't too bad, then we're negotiable. Perhaps a 78 or 79 half ton powerwagon 2 wheel drive. There is the lovely Hemi engine just wasting it's talents languishing in my cousin's storage shed.