Why is it that you can block sand something, or have it painted and you get visitors and they always seem to touch you're work! Am I the only one? Fresh paint lets lean on it, or touch it! Drives me crazy!
Usually happens when the drunk from across the street sees me working on something in the driveway, "Leans on fresh paint" and doesn't even notice it
Never fails; there can be 5 open lawn chairs but someone always feels that the best seat in the house is leaning against my car.
My across the street nieghbor is like that. Doesn't come out till he hears my car or spots me working. Then he waddles over and uses my car as a leaning rack. Finally told him about it and now he thinks I'm the bad guy! Now he just stands at the end of his drive way and stares. Idiot. It's all about respect. Some people just don't have a clue about personal property.
My dad was the absolute worst about either touching a freshly painted car or putting his foot (in his cowboy boot) on a freshly painted running board. He only did it to my truck though so it never got me in any fights about someone else's car. A few years ago I watched a kid at a show here in town busting his butt to shine up his 64 Chevy lowrider while his "homies" were all leaning their butts against the other side posing for the hotties parading by. A really great bunch of friends he had.
There are some cast iron brackets for the top bows in my 23 Dodge that people seem to have a phallic attraction to, they like to rub them. The paint is worn thin from that.
Before I rag on anybody else for doin' that, I'd best bitch-slap myself! I'm the worlds worst with my own car, which is in not the best coat of prime while we work on other parts of the project, and I catch myself hands-on or leaning on it way too often, ...gonna mean some extra care & effort later.
I think I finally cured my wife of this ailment.....every time I get a project done on the truck and it gets its final coat of paint she'll pop he head in the garage and inspect my work....which always would lead to her putting a finger in the still drying paint.... After much fussing and making a point to touch one of her craft projects whilst it was still drying ( in which she had a caniption) she finally got it....now she asks first....
Any time I paint something, immediately after I'm done spraying I shut the lights off in the shop and lock the door. It's beer time.
When I was restoring a 36 P;ymount for a friend's dad, I was ready to paint it, Pre-cleaned, and tack ragged off, when he came to visit. As he enters the spray room, I tell him "Hey, it's ready for paint, don't touch it!" So he goes, "Wow, it really looks good".......and runs his hand all over it!
My biggest peeve of all time. Parents need to teach themselves and their children that you do not touch another man's property. Especially cars. Especially car guys' cars. Drives me nuts when I'm at a show and someone points something out on a car by touching it. Clear coat is super soft and even touching it will scratch it. Anytime someone touches any automobile of mine they're getting an earful. I actually got in a 'physical altercation' with a kid a few years ago over him leaning on my car. Don't get me started on when I'm working on something and it's in bare metal or pre paint prepped, or was just painted and someone has to put their fat hands on it. Us painter/detail savvy people take our shit seriously.
Visitor to shop, admiring freshly painted car - looks it over then plants his butt on a fender and says "Nice ride. You just paint it?" Me: No, I just wait for folks like you to come by and polish the old paint job with their big fat asses. Here's your sign.
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