I’m not impressed. My garage is even bigger. And one thing is for sure.
My girlfriend won’t be getting a key.
Posted on 09/24/2023 4:38:51 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Poor actions always have poor consequences. Here’s an incident that revolves around similar plot!
A netizen recently asked, “Am I a jerk for suing my girlfriend after she had my 1967 Impala project taken to the scrapyard?”. We need you to find out!
The Original Poster (OP) had a 1967 Impala 4 door that he bought in Feb 2019. A couple of months ago he bought his first house that had a 2.5 acre car garage. OP moved the car in and started tearing it down for a complete restoration.
“I had the body in one bay and the chassis in another, plus the whole garage filled with parts.”, says OP.
About two months ago, OP’s girlfriend came to live with him during this whole crisis and the whole time has hated that car. She wants to park in the garage, but OP has 2 acres of land with a lot of nice places to park under shady trees or hell even in the barn if it has to be inside.
“I tell her tough luck it’s my house and it’s not like I can just throw it back together real quick.”, says OP.
Anyways, OP was out of town for a couple of days on a business trip for the small local company he works for.
When OP got back, his girlfriend was all smiles. Making him food all the time, doing all the chores, all that. OP thought maybe she was just happy to have him home but then he realized that he didn’t see her car in its usual spot.
OP asked her where she parked so he could make sure he mowed that area and keep it clean and she said not to worry because she parked in the garage. OP asked how and she told him to go check it out.
Turns out that while OP was gone, she hired some people to come over and move everything related to that car, including the drive-train, body, chassis and all parts, and take it to the local dump/scrapyard. OP was absolutely dumbfounded.
“I had spent over 11k on that car including new parts, services, and the car itself.”, says OP.
OP told her that he was going to be taking her to court for that and she brushed him off like he was being dramatic. OP told her that it was done between them and to pack her things and leave.
“I admit I was really angry but I did end up getting a lawyer. As I have all the receipts for all that money spent and I have her on my house’s security camera footage letting the guys in and watching them take it all I think I can win.”, says OP.
The girlfriend’s family and friends are absolutely blowing OP up saying it’s just a stupid old piece of junk that she cannot pay back all that money OP spent, and that he should just let it go.
“But I have been putting all my time, effort, and money into that car for a year and a half now and imagine now even getting justice for what she did. Am I a jerk?”, asks OP.
Not the jerk. Relationship-wise: this was a gross overstep on her part just to get her way on something minor. Ending the relationship immediately was the right thing to do.
Legal wise: Don’t destroy something you can’t afford to replace. Take her down, let her pay it off over the next few years.”
“Not the jerk. That is messed up and I can’t believe anyone is defending that behavior. I mean maybe if you were married for years and that stuff had been sitting around for like 10 years or something and it was also her house I could see an argument…but none of that is the case here. I would be livid. Wow just wow. Yeah unless she can get it all back somehow she owes you.”
From the article: "his first house that had a 2.5 acre car garage." Wow that's big garage!!!!! Should have been able to find room to park her car. Think the author misread something.
Sounds more like an airplane hanger.
This just seems to be so typical of how women act these days, they know more and they know better and that’s probably why she had that attitude to start off with and that leading to what she did.
She’s lucky he didn’t call the cops and have her arrested
Wish I had a 2.5 acre garage!
Seriously, I would sue her as well. He has a strong case.
I took it as he’s got a junkyard
> ...OP has 2 acres of land with a lot of nice places to park under shady trees or hell even in the barn if it has to be inside....
I doubt the garage was 2.5 acres. Rather, the total property was 2.5 acres, the house and car garage was maybe a half-acre, and the open land was 2 acres.
Years and years ago when I was in college, my girlfriend at that time was supposed to meet me at my parents house, prior to our departure for a ski trip.
Her car wouldn’t start, so she took the keys for my fully restored 1969 AMX and drove it ... thru the snow ... to my parents house.
I was FURIOUS when I saw it in the driveway having spent 2 years restoring it.
Relationship over that day.
My mom didn’t like her anyway since I was dating someone 7 years older than I was.
The guy in this story is 1000% in the right.
What a rotten broad, get out, indeed...with extreme prejudice!
I’m not impressed. My garage is even bigger. And one thing is for sure.
My girlfriend won’t be getting a key.
I see that attitude in quite a few of the women in this day and age. I freely admit my wife knows the household needs way better than I do but she would NEVER throw anything of mine away - it’s always a MUTUAL decision.
She’s got a hell of a lot of nerve, and it doesn’t matter if the car was worth $11 thousand or $11. It is his car, his home, his property and she moved in. He made it clear to her that he wanted that car and she could park in the barn if she wanted to park inside.
She sounds like an entitled, spoiled “Karen”. He’s fortunate to be rid of her - almost worth losing the car, in fact. Yes, sue her, for the sake of the next guy’s trinket she doesn’t care about and gets in her way.
I think its. miss-print. more like 2.5 car garage.
OK, Jay Leno, we’ve all seen your cars before.
I saw a great deal on a ‘68 Mustang. A friend and I took a trailer and went to see the seller. The price was beyond reasonable. As we loaded, the seller, a pleasant exceptionally well-sorted man literally ran to outbuildings, bringing back additional parts worth hundreds of dollars and throwing them into my truck. In conversation he said his wife had said it was her or the car. As we drove away my friend said, “It’s not the car.” I agreed.
A similar thing happened in my Mustang club. A guy sold his ‘70 Mach 1 Mustang at dump-it prices. He said his wife had told him it was her or the car. We looked at each other in the meeting and somebody said, “If there’s a divorce pool, I want October.” That was two months hence. As news of his divorce reached us second hand, we don’t know the exact date, but every man in the club knew selling the car was not going to solve the marriage problem.
Over my 69 years of life, I’ve noticed this over and over. A man with a situation he can’t deal with in his relationship will develop a hobby that keeps him away from the relationship. Usually, it’s in garage. But gardening or a job that has overtime works. The problem with most of these solutions is the woman is abusing the man and if he isn’t there to abuse, she’ll go the next step.
The guy with project car was trying to treat a relationship illness with what he viewed as the obvious means of keeping the relationship and his sanity. The thing is she’s treating her mental problems by abusing him and if he isn’t there to use, she has to elevate the situation. (BTW, going to court is a losing proposition. He needs to move as far away from her as possible. This shows all the signs that she’ll kill him. She’s an abuser.)
I guarantee you that skank has a junkyard.
Guy is correct. Good he will never marry the woman.
Next: I’m suing my mom because she threw out my baseball cards...
Which I could find the meme.
But 1 of my favorite memes of all time was this super hot, young but very ditzy wife standing in her doorway meeting her husband back from work with a big smile on her face and about $200 in her hands.
She was saying: “HEY HONEY! look at this, I got $213 dollars at our yard sale today for all your old guns and rusty knives!”.
It’s not as funny without the image….
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