Apr 23

Terrorized Pickup

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Forward: It has come to my attention that it might be felt that because I force comments to be made on my site instead of on livejournal that I am somehow trying to force you to visit my site. I assure you, this is not the case. I prefer to host my blog on my own terms, and I only cross-post it on livejournal because Danny whined and whined about having to visit some other site to get updates. Thus, I am trying to limit the avenues of different discussion on each missive issued to one site. Sorry for the convenience of being able to read all comments in one place I’ll quit using the ‘more’ link so you don’t have to pop over to my site to read the entire story.

Now on to the content…

My poor pickup. It has been through a lot lately. I’ve strived to keep it looking and running great, and so far it has worked out for me. I only use full synthetic oil, and I stay on top of service. 85,000 miles later it runs like it did when it was new.

However, in the last few months, it has had a hard life. Amanda was driving it as her daily vehicle for a while, until we found a Subaru for her, and she managed to tag a pole with the front bumper and smear paint on it. I think that will buff out if I work on it. Then, she decided to be ‘clever’ like me and back it into the space every night, but got nervous one night because of traffic and managed to back into the same pole and put a good dent into the back bumper that will not buff out. She’s probably going to have a cow that I am posting all this, haha. The radio has a motorized front face that pops open when you put in a CD or when you turn off the truck (so you can remove it for theft deterrent). That has started to not work properly for the last month or so. At least everything else is ok, or so I thought…

Friday I went out to the truck around 11pm with Amanda to go over to Wendy’s for a late night meal. Walking up to the truck, I found a mostly empty Natural Ice beer can laying on the ground next to the drivers door, and it appeared to have exploded. My door was covered in a film of presumably dry beer, but nothing seemed amiss. I sat down in the truck and shut the door and found the problem. My mirror was busted. It would seem someone threw a full beer at my mirror while driving past and shattered it. The dried beer on my door contains bits of glittery glass. Mind you, the truck had been parked on the street with about 15-20 other vehicles near my apartment, so I had not thought much of leaving it there (in fact, I figured I could keep a better eye on it…). I took a picture the next day after a motorcycle ride:

I moved the pickup to the parking area behind the apartment, next to where I park the bike. These are unassigned, covered parking spaces. There are many spaces open in the covered area, and many more in the uncovered area. I have been keeping a close eye on the truck every day since when I leave and come home from work (on the bike). After having been parked there for going on 4 full days, I discovered this taped to the drivers window of my truck last night:

I… I am at a loss here. What does it even mean? It looked like there was two different strokes on the H looking character, so I can only assume that the word written is, ‘troke’. I assume they feel this is their parking space? But it is unassigned parking and there is literally 10 open spaces 4 spaces down.

I removed the sign and threw it on the ground nearby. I figure it will at least be plausible that it fell off, so as to give this genius pause before escalating. I look forward to what might appear tonight.

In a related note, I bought a car alarm off eBay last night. One of the kind that has a ‘pager’ key fob that alerts you if the alarm went off, so at least I will get notification. We’ll see what happens. But, seriously, poor truck. Everyone is picking on it, it seems.