A Scratch On A Vehicle Is Something That Everyone Can Do Without
The Indignities And Frustrations Of Car Scratches
This morning I was pulling my vehicle out of my garage inasmuch as a maintenance man was coming to service my climate-control unit in my garage. I knew that my trashcan was at the end of the driveway, but I was unaware that the trash collectors had left it in my pathway where I exit my driveway.
As I was pulling out, lo and behold, I felt something rub up against the other side of my car from where I was sitting. I looked over and saw my trashcan. I was so furious that I wanted to scream. Was I going to luck out and find no scratches on the other side of my vehicle once I had parked it elsewhere? Somehow Murphy’s Law never seems to cut me any breaks in life.
After I parked my car at a different location from my residence, I got out and walked around to the other side of it. I kept looking at the exterior of it to see if there were any scratches. I saw two white spots, but I could not tell if they were scratches or tiny specks of bird droppings. I supposed if I wiped the exterior of the car in that area and the white spots were to come out, then I would be out of the woods.
I know that I should not complain about trivial problems and I don’t want to appear as though I am overly vocal about my pet peeves, because, after all, there are people starving in the world and people dealing with the violence and the fatalities of a major war raging on between Russia and Ukraine. However, once that one inadvertent scratch appears on your car, you feel that frustration of not being able to move backwards in time before it happened and prevent its occurrence.
Hostile emotions ignite all over the place inside of you. You know that whenever anyone makes a snide comment about it, you’ll tell them either to pay for the scratch to be removed or to put a sock in it. Nobody is usually ever interested in their unsolicited opinions. Your experience is that whenever someone points out a scratch on your car, they are seldom ever doing so out of the kindness of their heart, if they even have one. They can always put opaque boxing tape over their eyes if they don’t like looking at the scratch.
You would simply like to take a bucket of freezing, cold water and pour it on anyone who makes a remark about the scratch on your car. They are usually the kind of people that nobody misses whenever they move away. Problem has it that usually these jerks never go away.
These types of people always remind you of that one annoying co-worker in your office who nitpicks at everyone’s clothing and always somehow manages to find a spot on someone’s white shirt at an office party. You’d like to take a big dish of spaghetti and whack it against their shirt, saying, “Here! Now you’ve got a spot on your shirt too!” You find out right then and there that they can usually dish it out, but they can’t take it.
Bloated Advertising Budget For Cars
Car commercials and car advertisements are constantly flooding the television airwaves, even though they all look the same and give fairly much the same kind of information to their viewers. There seems to be more car commercials and car advertisements on television than any other kind of advertising. They’re always bragging about new car technology in them.
Then why can’t any of these car manufacturers invent a scratch-proof car?! With all the money that they dump into car commercials on television and other forms of advertising, you would think that they would be able to invent a scratch-proof car. Oh, I get it. They can’t do it, because they have to make their money selling new cars to consumers and allow their corporate allies to sell scratch-removal products, which brings me to my next talking point.
The Reliability Of Car-Scratch-Removal Products Or The Lack Thereof
The Internet is crawling with advertisements everywhere on it of car-scratch-removal products. The problem is that you can never be too sure which ones work and which ones don’t. I’ve tried some of these same products, and I was not at all impressed with any of them. They may have covered up the scratches on my car, but then they left an ugly stain on my car’s finish too.
There will always be some bozo who will tell you that if you don’t want to take your chances with a car-scratch-removal product in hopes that it will restore your car’s finish back to the way it was before, then don’t let your vehicle get scratched. Those are the kinds of idiots that you cannot help but to laugh at whenever they leave their car parked under a tree and later they come back to find that a large branch has fallen on it and scratched it all up.
It’s like poetic justice to punish these bozos’ stupidity, because they always have a God complex in that they think that they can do no wrong and that they’re so perfect. Then life takes them off guard, and they learn the hard way that they are equally as vulnerable to becoming a victim of circumstances as anyone else is.
Anyhow, I often feel as though I am trying to unring a bell every time I attempt to remove a scratch from my car. Below is a video that describes a car-scratch-removal product.
Car-Scratch-Removal Products Come A Dime A Dozen
A Scratch On A Car Should Not Be Such A Colossal Aggravation Or A Major Tragedy
Final Thoughts
Electric cars are now being advertised on television and by other means. Such technology seems like a big leap for humanity. However, if these car manufacturers really wanted to do the honorable thing, they would invent a scratch-proof car.
Then again, I suppose such a desire would be like asking a light bulb manufacturer to bring back lights bulbs that never burn out. These companies simply feel that they have to make their money or none of them can live the high life as they do.
Car manufacturers exist to make money for themselves and for other companies associated with them rather than to make life easier on consumers. Perhaps the only way that our Federal government could intervene and pressure them into inventing a scratch-proof car would be by placing limits on how many hours they can advertise on television and elsewhere. In that manner, these car manufacturers would be forced into redirecting their time to do things to serve the consumers.
Unfortunately, as Americans, we do not live in a nation where government officials push the private sector into doing the right thing. There will always be a major difference between what car manufacturers should do and what they can do.