No good deed goes unpunished.

[wondersofwine]

About two weeks ago someone scraped the side of my car (4 years old) and didn't leave a note. I know it happened at my apartment complex because I had put gas in after work and the gas tank is on the same side of the car and no scrapes. Drove right on home. Next morning I come out and the side with the gas tank is all scraped up (with traces of brown or dark red paint.) I've been looking at other cars parked near mine suspiciously ever since and I'm tempted to take a tape measure to one car and see how high up the bent chrome strip is from the ground and how wide the strip is and compare it to the height and width of the scrape on my car. If they match up, then I guess I call in a forensic expert for paint samples!
Wish people would just own up to their misdeeds. Heck, I won't even have the car paid off until February of 2004!
Sorry about your misfortune, Georgie. I also got into a frightening situation with a sergeant I took pity on in Germany because he seemed lonely. When things got spooky and he didn't seem to know the meaning of boundaries, I went to the Catholic chaplain for help because this sergeant was involved with the Catholic chapel. The padre said this was a good family man and I must have been leading him on! However, he did help extricate me from a scary situation. (Among other things, and they were numerous, the guy claimed to carry a loaded gun in his glove compartment and I was afraid he might shoot out the tires on my car if he didn't aim the gun at me.)