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By: Free Money Finance

Free Money Finance — Fri, 19 May 2006 10:31:42 +0000

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By: John Koontz

John Koontz — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:49:26 +0000

I don’t have this problem. My garage door opener is broken and I haven’t had the time to fix it. I park outside.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:30:10 +0000

Backed over my gas-powered Homelite weedeater/edger with my wife’s ’67 Mustang last year.

Sure didn’t hurt the Mustang any. The weedeater, on the other hand . . ..

By: Lolo

Lolo — Tue, 16 May 2006 21:15:49 +0000

After reading all these, I feel less bad for backing into a parked car–same type of thing, did my usual routine, backed around the cement elevator shaft of my building, and right into a car (illegally) parked there! Of course his car only got a scratch & I had to replace my whole bumper. So dumb!

By: RS

RS — Tue, 16 May 2006 18:12:08 +0000

I was once backing out of my garage in my Civic and for some reason hit the button on my opener before I was all the way out. It was an older door so it didn’t have those automatic stoppers so it just kept coming down. As soon as I realized what was going on, I gunned the car to try to beat the door closing on the car only to have it bend my antenna and break it right off. That was a nice $75 mistake.

By: trip

trip — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:33:46 +0000

Curses, sorry about that JLP.

I have closed the garage door, with the liftgate open on the minivan, a few times… nice long scratches. It is a good things I plan on driving until the wheels fall off.

By: cbarnes

cbarnes — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:30:53 +0000

I’ll do you one better. A few years ago I purchased a huge rooftop carrier (enclosed) so that we could bring a load of Christmas gifts and luggage to my brother-in-law’s for the holidays. Since he had extra high garage doors in order to put his boat in the garage, I assumed I could get in without a problem…..except only the stall for the boat had the higher door so….I tore off the carrier, damaged the door and dumped all the presents. After all, we’re all human.

By: dforester

dforester — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:44:49 +0000

Cars, man, cars.

After we got the “6-months-to-live” prognosis on my wife’s 1994 Chevy Beretta – that she bought used & paid for in college – we decided to get her a new Honda CR-V (say what you will about buying new – 2-3 yr old used models were selling at $1,000-$2,000 max below new base model invoice – so we went new). Anyhow, since the Beretta was still running, and was worth all of about $300 on a trade, we decided to keep it, and I’d drive it in place of my gas-guzzling truck when possible, until it just outright quit.

Long story short, she comes back in after leaving for work one morning – managed to back her nice, brand new CR-V into the old, decrepit Beretta. The CR-V sustained $2,500 in body-related damage; the Beretta was not noticably damaged. D’OH!

By: raising4boys.com

raising4boys.com — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:26:12 +0000

I know how you feel… I once drove into our garage with the tailgate on our minivan up.

By: JLP

JLP — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:07:44 +0000

djb,

Thanks for stating the obvious. I’m sure you have never done a boneheaded thing in your life. But yes, you are right, it was stupid of me.