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Old 10-02-2013, 01:55 AM   #27
mitosis
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About a week into ownership I was going into town to say hi to my wife at her work, tried to park in a diagonal spot and pull as far forward as I normally would in my Fit... got the right corner of the bumper hooked up onto the curb real good. Proceeded to freak out and pull the car off of it, got out and examined the damage and decided that you couldn't see it unless you were crouched down in front of the car.

Needless to say after I was leaving I drove past the front of my wife's work and like 20 seconds later she calls me all pissed off...
Her: "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BUMPER!"
Me: "OHSNAPSOSORRYI'llPAYFORITINBACKRUBSISWEAR!!!"
Silly girl... she thinks its her car!

Meanwhile I'm shocked that she managed to notice something I had determined was unnoticeable unless you were almost at ground level and she noticed it from inside the building 50 feet away during the brief moment of my passing.

The next week I was being tired and forgetful and I tried to park in a compact spot like I normally would with my Fit... long story short the nose on this car is like 3x longer so I hooked the entire bottom edge of the bumper up onto the curb again. She hasn't noticed this one yet so I guess it's not as noticeable since it goes the whole width of the bumper?

Then on the same day, right after I was done with that errand, I was once again heading into town to say hi to the wife but this time I decided to park parallel and ONCE AGAIN, deceived by the amazing maneuverability of the Fit, I swooped in too close to the curb and curbed my back right wheel a tiny bit.

That was the day I finally decided to stop driving the Fit for a while and DD the FR-S so I could really get used to the larger turning radius and the longer, wider stance that it has.
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