Is your significant other careless, clutz or just not careful?

[Curley]

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! I'm sorry I just have to vent here for a moment. Is it just me or did I marry the only woman who is a bull in a china shop? I love my wife, she is wonderful and a great mother but damn she is not careful. She breaks thing because she is not thinking, curbs wheels on the cars, backs into things etc. Tonight was the killer, she was driving my car and she parked it in the garage next to my Camaro. She threw the door open on the BMW and bam! Missing paint on the Camaro's passenger door about a 1/4 inch circle. The worst part, if she parked the car like I told her over and over again there is about 2 feet between the cars with the BMW's door fully open. What does she say everytime I told her in the past. OH what ever, park it yourself then. Dont tell me how to park.

Ok now I think I wont kill her, but seriously am I alone? And of course the pictures.

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[MrQuick]

actually the mythbusters busted the myth of a bull in a China shop. They are very gracefull.

My wife = clutz but is very respectfull of cars and parts.

Just remind her that she owes you one.

[mc84_zz4]

I put up with my honey hitting my SS with her new SUV doors, but I put some 'target' park stripes with blue and green painters tape(cool outline), and dammit she hits the spot everytime now, and there is just enough space for the doors.
Get some door bumpers from GriotsGarage.com, if that doesn't work..
Good luck! I see your pain.

[Bad Bird]

She really does owe you this time. What would she do if you used her wedding dress to polish the Camaro?

[64Chevelle]

My wife is not at all clumsy, I'm probably more prone to being unlucky and doing something stupid/clumsy :hammer:. But she is definately careless and don't really understand how fragile the paint can be and generally looking after our things and investments. But I've been preaching carefulness around cars for so many years now that she's starting to get the picture :)

[XLexusTech]

Guess it could be worse

[cluxford]

OMG, your wife is my wife's twin sister !!!

My wife is so forgetful she drops glasses cause she forgets it's in her hand. We have marks all over our walls as she doesn't watch what is in her hands and bumps the walls

Twice she has reversed her car into my daily driver. Twice

She has dragged a small clothes horse across my bonnet.

Scraped all my rims across curbs

And all I get is "it's a car get over it".

I am building a new 4 car garage and a shed just to keep the Camaro away from her car.

I love her, but just wish her brain was in gear at least 20% of the time !!!

[joemac]

I wouldn't call mine clumsy but extremely careless, like she walks around in a fog not paying attention to what she is doing. I always call her a fish out of water.

[1969CamaroRS]

My Wife is pretty similar. I can't count the times I have got accidentally hit or run into just walking around the house with her.

I have learnt to give her a wide berth when she is cooking and might have sharp implements ;)

Looking at the rims and tires on her car tells you a lot. As well as how often it needs an alignment.

[6'9"Witha69]

No issue with that here. Mine would sob if she messed up my baby.

Quick advice, Use 2 pool noodles and some rope. Tie them so they both sit at beltline level to prevent door dings. Just pick em up when you drive, drape them back over when you park. Would solve a lot of issues.

[CarlC]

No issue with that here. Mine would sob if she messed up my baby.

Ditto. Mine is more careful around the car than I am.

Buy the wife a car long enough so that it won't fit in the garage. That's my double insurance policy against my little guys clobbering the Camaro.

[Curley]

Thanks guys at least I'm not alone here. She does feel like crap and she is still walking on egg shells. And 6'9"Witha69 that is a great suggestion. I used to do that when I stored my car at a garage where I only rented one stall in a two car garage. I just never put it back up because it was in my own garage and only I was the only one parking in my own garage. She just needed to take my car the last few days this week. Her car is allways outside. Oh well.

[ADaughen]

My car is still multicolored and rusted and I hate it when my wife slams her door into my car.

I've taken over both bays right now, but for winter, I'm going to clean it up and move my right up against the wall to give her an extra 3'.

[Tony_SS]

Well that's what you get for letting her in the garage in the first place.

Rules of the house... the garage is all mine. :) The rest is hers.

[Jim Nilsen]

It's a hard thing to get adults to recognize childish behaviour and excuses for things like denting the door.

Good luck finding out how to get someone to grow up and take responsibilty for the damage they cause these days.

Sounds like another fight to take a lifetime to win,lol.

Can she pay for the repair??? Send her a bill for it. Ha HA

What is that rock feeling like?

You have my sympathy and understanding, things like this lead to seperate beds,lol.

[Scott Parkhurst]

She's on your team. Get it fixed and know she'll be more careful next time. She feels bad about it- that's punishment enough. Don't let it affect your relationship or anything. The paint can be fixed easier and cheaper than the relationship.

[LateNight72]

She's on your team. Get it fixed and know she'll be more careful next time. She feels bad about it- that's punishment enough. Don't let it affect your relationship or anything. The paint can be fixed easier and cheaper than the relationship.
Have to agree here, 100%.

[68BNUT]

She's on your team. Get it fixed and know she'll be more careful next time. She feels bad about it- that's punishment enough. Don't let it affect your relationship or anything. The paint can be fixed easier and cheaper than the relationship.



my wife says that all the time "were on the same team here" in my head im thinking yeah but your like that retarded kid who gets picked last!!

My wife is the same way. When we were dating she gouged my 20's on my truck like of 3 inches just gone from the lip! then yes i have 2 door ding repairs on my camaro passenger door. One day I came home and noticed the shelf from inside the garage was sitting outside the garage?? She had drug it all the way out of the garage with the front bumper of her RX330!

Did I mention she's good in bed?

Whats bad is we have 2 daughters and they are getting more clueless by the day

[Curley]

Can she pay for the repair??? Send her a bill for it. Ha HA



You know the first thing she said after I came back from looking at the damage was she would pay for it. I then looked at her and asked her if I was going to write the check from her half of the savings account.

[ADaughen]

Well that's what you get for letting her in the garage in the first place.

Rules of the house... the garage is all mine. :) The rest is hers.


I either give her a bay in the garage in the winter, or she wakes me at 5am to clean the snow off her car. With the garage cleaned up, she'll have enough space to open her door all the way and not touch my ride. Now if I can only keep her from running into the 400lb work benches at the end of the room.

I want to annex the patio, but not at the expense of a bumper and a workbench. >_<

['70rs]

Well that's what you get for letting her in the garage in the first place.

Rules of the house... the garage is all mine. :) The rest is hers.


BINGO!!!! We have a winner!! I have to agree. I love my wife. But I do not love my wife in my garage at all. Damage will be the result every time. She seems to think my motorcycle makes a good shelf. :attn:

[monza]

My wife had eight years of living with car building, show quality paint, strict garage rules before we got married. She fully gets it, she's dialed and I know she would never door ding. Accidents do happen, she'd feel bad enough I would not have to say anything.

I actually laugh when she takes a visitor to the garage and lays down the law before they step in the garage. She actually made her mother cry; the mother n' law (she new the rules) set a box on a car with a cover on it, the wife unleashed! Classic.

[Tony_SS]

She's on your team. Get it fixed and know she'll be more careful next time. She feels bad about it- that's punishment enough. Don't let it affect your relationship or anything. The paint can be fixed easier and cheaper than the relationship.

What are you smoking? Did you miss the part where she said



OH what ever, park it yourself then. Dont tell me how to park

She has no respect for the man cave...

[John S]

Well that's what you get for letting her in the garage in the first place.

Rules of the house... the garage is all mine. :) The rest is hers.
I'm with Tony on this one, the garage is off limits unless invited in.
My wife (sounds funny since I've only been married a week) is very respectful of the garage rule. She can do whatever she wants with the entire house, but the man cave and garage are off limits.

[2008fx4]

i bought extra insurance on my wifes car to cover damage to the wheels. she has also driven into the back of a few vehicles, from work trucks to a jag, and completely through a toyota celica convertible. however, she doesnt drive my vehicles, and actually exercises extreme caution around my toys.

[Kenova]

my wife says that all the time "we're on the same team here" in my head im thinking yeah but your like that retarded kid who gets picked last!!


:lol::lmao:

Ken