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Driving my parents’ GMC suburban home late one rainy night from my job, I took the turn into the driveway too tight. I scraped the side of the truck against the chainlink fence gate post. The hinge pin cut a gash in the side of the truck.
I knew my dad would be pissed. Everyone was asleep already, so there was nothing to do but do to sleep.
When I woke up the next morning and told my mom, she said she knew and she told me not to say anything to anyone and my dad was going to take care of it.
As it turns out, they were using me as an example of a good driver to shame my brother and my sister, and they didn’t want them throwing it back in their faces.
Something similar happened to me with a neighbor’s car. I turned too wide into my parking space and ended up bumping the back of my neighbor’s van, leaving a noticeable mark. I immediately went up to their door and knocked to apologize, but no one answered AFAIR. I decided if it was a huge problem, they’d come to me or my dad about it, but they never did. So technically I wasn’t forgiven, but I wasn’t reprimanded either.