others driving our cars

[Lee Levitt <wheelman@shore.net>]

Ken <kkeith@qnet.com> writes:

>I've been pretty lucky about this sort of thing.  Then 
>again, I have yet to let a significant other, or really 
>anyone outside of a select few people, drive or handle 
>any of the machines I care about.  But, I'm easing up.

<sigh>

My in-laws are damage magnets. Come to think of it, so are my parents, but
I can't dump them :)

My MIL consistently lowers automatic garage doors on car trunks, puts heavy
packages, purses, blunderbusses, battle axes, etc, on hoods, flings doors
open into nearby parked cars, etc. For years, I mourned a pock mark from an
acorn that must have fallen several hundred feet from a tree on my in-laws'
property. (I think one of them had climbed up and was shaking the branch...)

They drive 0-2 year old Japanese sedans. They trade them in after using
*rubbing* compound on a black, clearcoated car, to remove a little tree wax.

Do you think they drive my car? Nope. Do they drive my wife's car? Not if I
can help it!

Lee