Is it me, or are people now commonly tagging cars and just driving off. Twice in the last month people have hit my wife’s new car, the most recent time really bad (major dent in the back of her SUV from the window to the bumper). 
Are people so self-centered these days that they dont stop to do the right thing anymore, or has this always been a problem.
Yes it’s true, last Winter my wife’s car and this Spring it was my truck. Both hits were on the passenger side so we didn’t notice it for quite awhile. Freckin A holes
That sucks!! I had some a-hole bust a tail light off my boat trailer this spring!! Have you picked a body shop in eagan? If not check out Superior Service center and help a fellow IDO member out I’m the painter there give us a shout for an estimate FREE!
Drivers in general seem to be worse than before, I’ve got a few idea’s why, but none printable.
Years back I discovered the back of the parking lot was less libal to have problems, means a bit of a walk, but less door dings and such.
Just wish I could convince the wife of that..grrrr
Al
I’ve seen the same thing down here. My explorer has been hit 3 times in the past 18 months. Only once did I have to get body work done but that was $1,800 bucks I can’t imagine that these idiots don’t know they have hit you – I think they just don’t care. I know fear is a factor but this is insane!
Dave
My wife and Mother-in-law were in Wal-mart approx 10 years ago and some lady hit my wife’s car. She parked 2 rows away and went inside like nothing happened. Fortunately, there was a guy that witnessed the whole thing and waited for my wife to come out. He could id both the car and the driver.
It’s the lack of person to person skills us older people learned as kids. Today it’s TV, video’s, e-mail, texting, ect on how people communicate. Part of that communication is writing skills as simple as a note stating they are sorry they bumped your car and they can be reached at 555-1212.
Go face to face with a 20 something and have them explain a problem or issue. Then have them type the explanation. Night and day difference. People don’t talk anymore and it’s starting to show.
Or it could be a lack of respect for other peoples property and feelings. Seems to be a bunch of that going around also. 
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It’s the lack of person to person skills us older people learned as kids. Today it’s TV, video’s, e-mail, texting, ect on how people communicate. Part of that communication is writing skills as simple as a note stating they are sorry they bumped your car and they can be reached at 555-1212.
Go face to face with a 20 something and have them explain a problem or issue. Then have them type the explanation. Night and day difference. People don’t talk anymore and it’s starting to show.
Or it could be a lack of respect for other peoples property and feelings. Seems to be a bunch of that going around also.
I read your post as “blah blah blah….they can be reached at 555-1212…..blah blah blah”
I called the number and it wasnt them. Oh, did you say something about communication problems? Should I keep trying?
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It’s the lack of person to person skills us older people learned as kids. Today it’s TV, video’s, e-mail, texting, ect on how people communicate. Part of that communication is writing skills as simple as a note stating they are sorry they bumped your car and they can be reached at 555-1212.
Go face to face with a 20 something and have them explain a problem or issue. Then have them type the explanation. Night and day difference. People don’t talk anymore and it’s starting to show.
Or it could be a lack of respect for other peoples property and feelings. Seems to be a bunch of that going around also.
I read your post as “blah blah blah….they can be reached at 555-1212…..blah blah blah”
I called the number and it wasnt them. Oh, did you say something about communication problems? Should I keep trying?
Yes, keep trying. Eventually you will get it.
The world is going to hell in a hand bag… Dec 21, 2012 
I agree. I think more and more people are losing their ethics and consciences all of the time and it is easy to see it getting worse.
One day a friend and I watched someone at a boat ramp parking lot not swing wide enough for a parking spot and take out the lights of another trailer. The culprit proceeded to drive off to find a parking spot elsewhere. My buddy wrote the information and license number down and put it on the widshield of the damaged rig. 
I wish there was an easy way to clean up the gene pool!
Sorry to hear about your wife’s vehicle 
Chris
Nothing has changed at all….it’s just the electronic age we live in combined with the media reporting everything bad that happens….
So no the world is not going in the crapper at all and frankly I see the world as much better place than it used to be.
I do feel sorry for the people that think its going in the crapper tho!
Sucks about the new car I remember back in 96 when I bought my Tahoe 2nd day I had it somebody hit me at the Hidden Falls launch and didn’t leave a note or anything.
Perhaps its partial to do with the younger generatioins up bringing by the older generation….. or idiots every where in general! I had my trailer hit at everts and broke the tail light, fender, and tweaked the frame and ofcourse no driver info!
i had my duckboat trailer hit two years ago, and was hit hard enough to do some serious damage to it. yet no info was left.
I have very little faith in human nature these days but this post just reminds me that about 75% of people with driver’s licenses have no business being on the road, not to mention pulling a trailer around. There should at a minimum be a required endorsement to pull anything at all down the road so we could at least weed out the lazy idiots.
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It’s the lack of person to person skills us older people learned as kids. Today it’s TV, video’s, e-mail, texting, ect on how people communicate. Part of that communication is writing skills as simple as a note stating they are sorry they bumped your car and they can be reached at 555-1212.
Go face to face with a 20 something and have them explain a problem or issue. Then have them type the explanation. Night and day difference. People don’t talk anymore and it’s starting to show.
Or it could be a lack of respect for other peoples property and feelings. Seems to be a bunch of that going around also.
I read your post as “blah blah blah….they can be reached at 555-1212…..blah blah blah”
I called the number and it wasnt them. Oh, did you say something about communication problems? Should I keep trying?
People have been doing the door dings and fender bumps since the beginning of autos. Some things that have changed, that make it worse, cheap tinny steel and plastic. Outrageous deductibles, outrageous bodyshop prices, people who just have no scruples(let alone a citizen of the USA) and some of it is, the way we were taught, by the prior generation.
big G
I don’t think has anything to do with age. It’s more an issue with respect. And also caring about the car/truck there driving let alone someone else’s vehicle on the road. More and more people feel that a car is just a mean of transportion, and nothing more then that.
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One day a friend and I watched someone at a boat ramp parking lot not swing wide enough for a parking spot and take out the lights of another trailer. The culprit proceeded to drive off to find a parking spot elsewhere. My buddy wrote the information and license number down and put it on the widshield of the damaged rig.
Sadly here in Kansas that would not do you any good. My daughter had her passenger door smashed at a party, found the car that did it by matching paint colors and the shape of the dent in the door. But since she did not have an eye witness and the low life that hit it denied she hit it the cops did not do anything.
I think it has a lot to do with the insurance companies. You have to have insurance that is to expensive. Then if you do have a little fender bender, the rates get even worse.
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It’s more an issue with respect. And also caring about the car/truck there driving let alone someone else’s vehicle on the road. More and more people feel that a car is just a mean of transportation, and nothing more then that.
I’ll remember that next time your wife parks next to me at work in that shiny car of hers. 
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I’ll remember that next time your wife parks next to me at work in that shiny car of hers.
She’s another one of those (just for transportation) types. If I didn’t wash and wax it. It would allways be dirty. 
Not that it helps anything, but the wife now know what is considered to be a good parking spot, one with lots of room. I’ve also taught her to park near nice cars, generally speaking they don’t want dings or dents either.
We’ve actually been lucky thus far, of course my mear posting in this thread will probably be the end of that luck….
Great… thanks dave, I’ll be sure and post a pic when it happens…. 
The only thing that could feels worse than getting your vehicle hit, is being accused of doing it when you’ve had nothing to do with it. One day I came from work to my truck and had some lady in her SUV blocking me. She went to accuse me of hitting her vehicle. After a 20 minutes argument, I said I will call the cops. She drove off. Now why didn’t I just do that in the first place? Would’ve saved me 20 minutes of wasted time. 
Well if my wife parked next to your car and your car gets a door dent. She’s guilty. 
Some crazy lady backs our Caravan into a huge cement anchored light post, A light post so big you just can’t miss it!, Smashes the tail light out, and does’t say anything about it till her husband gets pulled over for a broken tail light!!!!!!!!!!
Did I mention my daughters 16″ bike in the driveway? I really am scared when my wife is driving..
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