Ugh...lack of communication.

My buddy Joe wanted to install his new alarm in my parent's heated garage tonight, so I thought even though I may sadly be parting with the SC in the near future, I may as well do some work to it.

Popped the hood and started dinking around with electrical, trying to find any breaks (no luck). I also decided to look into the oil leaks a bit and ended up tightening down three very loose valve cover bolts! Cool, finally I was onto actually fixing crap. Topped of the blower fluid since it has a minor snout leak as well. Suddenly I remembered I had extra parts in a box that I could put on the car (cam pos. sensor, door latch pins, and some other misc stuff). Anyway, I started looking for the box, but I couldn't for the life of me find it. I rememered that my father had talked about it being out there and had asked if it was junk or not and I SWEAR I made it abundantly clear that it was not junk (especially considering everything was neatly wrapped in newspaper). I run inside, ask where my box of goodies disappeared to, and he replies with, "Wait a minute, you said it was garbage."

I turned around, and walked back out to the garage...pretty pissed.

So anyway, out about $50 or so on parts I never got to use. I didn't speak to my dad the rest of the night, so I'm trying to figure out how to correct the problem tomorrow. Hopefully he'll do something to repay me for the parts he threw out. My brother thinks I should just take the hit because I must have been stupid and gave a vague answer (which shouldn't have been assumed one way or the other).

Either way, the parts are gone, and nothing I can do about it.

Just thought I'd vent my fun event for the night.

-Chris

parts are parts dad is none replaceable

take the hit forget it love him he is your only dad, we all make mistakes, and you never know if tommorow will come, dont waste one minute worrying about little things which is better one day pissed or one day knowing you huged your dad and let him know you love him. when we look back we remember how bad we treated someone somehow the fun stuff gets burried by the one bad day when we acted badly towards them so dont be mad go inside to your dad and let him know its ok and you love him, you will both feel better, Id give two years of my life to hold my dad again and just tell him how much he is loved, just my 2 cents but its x mas and im missing my family thats gone.

I feel ur pain! I kept a box with other boxes inside of it with parts and a whole bunch of stuff. My dad never asked and just threw it all out. A few weeks back, I was looking for the box to a stereo that was broken in an attempted break in. I looked and looked and even had my dad go back there and he said he remembers throwing stuff out, but didnt know for sure. I had computer stuff in there, car stuff, car audio stuff and if my computer or monitor ever messes up, the store might not take it back because they specifically said I needed the box. To help ease my anger, I helped myself to some of his stuff he was storing and threw it out Revenge is good, even if its against your old man

Al

Well, now that I've finally woken up and had a chance to think about it again, I'm just going to let it go. It's just stuff. If it was something like a $200 brand new part I'd still be a bit upset and want to be compensated for it.

And Manny, I know exactly how you feel about wanting to give just about anything to see family that's gone just one last time. I'm sure my dad feels bad about throwing it away, so I shouldn't hold $50 in used parts against him.

Heh, perhaps he'll just try 1% harder to help me get a decent replacement car!

Later everyone.

-Chris

lol you never know

id be feeling bad if i threw it away maybe you should try for a viper?

don't feel too bad

my 88 5.0 tbird.. sat in my moms driveway for better part of 6 months while i was waiting to do the ball joints ..and heater core ...only to return home with new parts ..to find mommy had given my car away to a charity for a tax thing..now I was alittle pi$$ed about the car ,but I went phucking nutz about the 3,000 dollars worth of tools I had in the trunk...mommy helped big time in getting my SC ..

Ok, that had to have sucked. $3,000 in tools, I would have gone balistic.

Similiar thing with one of the guys I used to work with. He had a VERY awesome Acura Integra at one time. I can't remember which model, but it was a somewhat rare one I guess. He had invested a TON of time and money into the whole car. Suspension was very sporty when he was done, rims/tires cost however much, plus all of the engine work (he supercharged it), and the biggest part of all was the stereo system. He custom built his box for the back after calculating all sorts of sound stuff with the types of speakers he'd be using and what not.

Anyway, to make a long story short, he slid into a snowbank and messed up a little bit of the front suspension, so he just parked the car while he went to college. When he came back after a year or so for a break to fix the car and bring it back to school, his father and stepmother had sold it to some stupid b**ch for $800.

If that isn't shocking enough, one of his friends found the car in a junkyard a few months later, with the entire stereo system still in it. Wasn't able to get any of it back. He hasn't spoken to his Dad ever since then, and I think that was a couple years ago (I guess his dad is a real jerk).

It sucks when you work hard for things and people sometimes mistakingly or intentionally toss out your hard work. It's like painting a famous picture worth millions and having a little kid poke holes in it.

-Chris

its unfortunate but true not all dads are as cool as mine. its amazing the older that you get the more and more you appreciate your parents.
i feel like now that i cant do enought for them.

it makes my heart glad to see so many good sons

as a dad ive been both the hurt and the hurter, but love conquers all, and I love my kids more than anything even myself, an would not intentionaly hurt them, as your parents would not hurt you on purpose, Im so happy to see most have their heads on straight, guess theres hope for this new generation, now us old folks can rest and enjoy getting our depends changed with the knowledge that the young uns have it under control. lol """"viagra""" depends""" and """geritol""" ahh life is good..