Kids.....

[90Xjay]

Kids...you can't live without em and you can't kill em...legally.

Yesterday at my inlaws house we were all relaxing in the living room with the front door open while my 2 year old daughter and her 6 yr old brother were playing in the front. My son runs in the house with a look of utter panic and we ran outside to find that my daughter had decided to express her artistic side not with paint and canvas, not with paper and pencil but with a sharp rock and the passenger side bed of my father in laws 2005 Chevy 2500HD black truck:redface: :redface:

It resembled a mural of sorts with 2 - ten inch diameter smiley faces complete with hair and ears.. then when that one was finished she turned on my Suburban and did a nice accent peice on the fuel door cap, I'm no impressionist, but I think she was trying to express some inner confusion, or maybe a sense of defiance.

Thank God they just laughed it off. We cleaned it and hit it with some polish and about 60% of it was very light and disappeared. They came by today and I hand buffed it with some clear coat safe 3M compound and followed up with some of that black wax that Turtle Wax makes and you have to know where to look now to even notice it.

All is going be fine now, but I felt like pulling my hair out when it happened.

 

[mud4feet]

Well, 90, it appears you are a parent after my own heart! Hey, it wasn't that long ago that we were kids and did some really stupid things............at least your kids were being creative!! Can't punish 'em too bad for that!!! Let me bring my TJ down there and they can go to town!!............long as they don't mess with the motor or the drivetrain!!!!!! Anything else, I don't really care!

God bless you and your family!ray:

mud

 

[Sparky-Watts]

I can remember doing something to help make my dad's car "look better" too. I must've been about 3 or 4 years old, and took a hammer to the hubcaps on his '69 Impala, pounding in the centers of the hubcaps till they were dish-shaped. Dad wasn't impressed. Funny thing, it was about a week after that when he clobbered me in the forehead with a horseshoe.....I've still got that scar, right in my rapidly receding widow's peak. He always said it was an accident........

 

[TwistedCU]

Well look at the bright side...

at least it was the in-laws :shock:
That wasn't right right there urple:

Seriously though... Sometimes they do stuff that makes you nuts. My 2 yr old colored my brand new wall the same day we moved here a while back. I had just painted it two days before :x . My oldest ran down my neighbor's driveway on a scooter (you know, the "razor" type, well his handle grips are gone and he left a gouge down the side of his Camaro. That guy loves his Camaro like we love our Jeeps. Fortunately his son busted my basement window a week earlier and there was a level of understanding. He refused my offer to have it repaired but I helped him repair it.

 

[bchcky]

my dad has told me through all of the "toy's" he's owned, if you ever want to see a grown man cry, wash his car with rocks.

 

[90Xjay]

That is why I am grateful that the father in law took it like he did. He is not a "carguy" or things might have been different.

 

[WickedYJ]

On one of my previous cars my friends son who was about 3 mabey 4 decided to repaint it. He grabed a rattle can of black and went to town. actually if would have been taller it would have been a little better. However only the bottom half of my car got it. LOL LOL it had bad paint anyway. I sanded it down and gave him a can of primer and told him to go to town. LOL