<p>Well, I still park my cars far away from any other vehicle if possible in parking lots and would cringe if someone leaned against it. I keep my car at work covered as well while I’m working to keep the sun off of it. I was the same way in HS (after working hard and paying for my own very nice car - which I still have) and am still the same way now. I can understand why the boy’s upset but it looks like maybe he’s starting to get over it.</p>
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<p>Good advice, Marite. Actually, I would put the face to face apology first priority with the looking at the car and assessing damage second.</p>
<p>Less than a month after getting my 1969 car back from a complete bare metal restoration and paint job my wife let the door whack into a metal pole at the jewelry store where we were to look at potential Christmas gifts for her. Needless to say, there was no gift from that store that Christmas.</p>
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Hmmm… my guess is that the “damage” was pretty minimal. Maybe when the dad looked at the car he couldn’t see what all the fuss was about – or maybe he could see right away that the few smudges on the finish would be easily buffed off with ordinary car wax (or whatever is recommended for the car’s finish).</p>
<p>You’re going to love this…
my D went to visit this boy yesterday after school. She wanted to see the car. Apparently, it was all a practical joke–on her! He saw her from a window writing on his car. As soon as she left, he went out and wiped it off, then decided to get her back. He pretended to be mad for a whole week, and really got her good. I give him credit…it was a wonderful payback, and we’re all very relieved, lol!</p>
<p>Oh my! Hope you show him these posts!</p>
<p>Wow–with friends like that…</p>
<p>Maybe you should send him your bill for blood pressure medicine? :)</p>
<p>How do you spell RELIEF? (don’t spell it in shaving cream!)</p>
<p>I’m glad it is not the problem you thought it was. However, I’d not be too happy at what the boy felt was a practical joke. It really is not funny. I guess your D also did a practical joke too. I think his “joke” is worse and lasted way longer and caused way more stress. I’d not be too keen on this kind of “friendship.”</p>
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<p>and on you and everyone on this thread as well, apparently! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I still think it was kinda funny, although that may be a sense of relief talking.</p>
<p>It would have been funnier if he had included you in on the joke.</p>
<p>Well, in my opinion, it was a good ‘joke’ on his part. Vandalizing someone’s car is certainly worse than pretending that the vandalism actually caused some damage. I think it was clever on his part! Glad to hear that there wasn’t actually any damage, and hopefully your D has learned her lesson. :)</p>
<p>I have to disagree–there is no sign anywhere in this story that she either vandalized the car, or meant to. Writing a message in a medium you think causes no damage and can be easily wiped off is not vandalism–especiallly as it turns out her suppositions were correct.</p>
<p>“Punishing” someone for a harmless act is much, much worse to me. It seems to me to be purely mean-spirited.</p>
<p>It was not meant in a mean way—they were both laughing about it. And I think she really learned a lesson. That panic will be hard to forget!</p>
<p>I am sorry, putting ANYTHING on someones car on purpose is vandalism</p>
<p>And we all have been made aware that shaving cream can do damage</p>
<p>If the shaving cream had been on his car for anything length of time-</p>
<p>From AskMen.com
Gillette commercials may never look the same again, but don’t panic: The shaving cream hasn’t permanently formed a shell around your car. However, shaving cream does contain chemicals, meaning that different brands may cause discoloration to your paint surface and could even eat away at the clear coat in a worst-case scenario. Although shaving cream can be corrosive if left on long enough – we’re talking days at a time – if you deal with the situation at hand immediately and use the correct products, you can quickly melt the foamy mess away and have your car back to its lustrous self.<br>
Don’t damage the car’s finish. Avoid using shaving or whipped cream on the body of the car - they eat away at the paint and may leave a permanent message. </p>
<p>Yeah, if someone messed with YOUR car like that, you would just laugh it off</p>
<p>Good for the kid, the girl deserved the worry</p>
<p>garland, putting any substance, whether it’s paint, dirt, rotten tomatoes, or shaving cream on someone’s car is vandalism. It doesn’t matter if it’s a friend’s car and is being done as a joke, and it doesn’t matter if she thought it wouldn’t cause damage. It’s still vandalism, as it was wilfull damage to someone else’s property. The only reason that it was easily washed off is that he did it immediately after the fact, which, as it turns out was lucky for tanya’s D.</p>
<p>“It’s still vandalism, as it was wilfull damage to someone else’s property.”</p>
<p>Well, that’s overstating it a bit. She did not set out to damage anything.</p>
<p>I’m sure she didn’t, tanya, but she should have had a reasonable expectation of damage. I’m not trying to say that your D was intentionally attempting to damage her friend’s car. What I am saying is that, had there been damage caused, and there surely would have been had he not removed it promptly, the resultant damage would have been her fault and her responsibility. Defacing someone else’s property is vandalism, even if meant as a joke.</p>
<p>Great ending–way better than our experience! Good lesson for your D…</p>