My complaint is that I wish to use the garage, my dad who even after witnessing the amount of time and money that I have invested into my car will not let me park it inside the garage. I tried to explain to him that my reasons were to protect the car from theft, the weather, and vandalism. Dad however, does not agree with my ideas on theives or acts of God. My dad simply states that it is his garage and parks his bucket inside the haven that is our garage. In parking his car in the garage he overlooks many of my arguments about why I should be able to protect my investment and overlooks the fact that my car will cost much more to be repaired if something happens to it. Damage to the car means even more money out of my pocket to fix it, consequently other aspects of my life will probably be affected. On the other hand my dad has more dents and craters on his car than on the moon, he would not care if his car was damaged or much less notice or spend the money to fix any damage. All I ask is to simply have the previlage of protecing my car by keeping it in the garage. I would even settle by sharing the garage, or have some sort of schedule.
“Let you park in the garage? Why? Its my garage? I am the one that pays the bills, Why should you be able to park inside the garage?“
This is his response whenever I bring the subject up. Although I understand that he does pay the bills and it is his house, the fact remains that his car is a bucket and it does not run the risk of being stolen. It also does not need to be protected from the weather, the weather has already gotten to it. The paint is fading and even falling off in certain places and I won’t even begin to describe the bumpers. My car in comparison has paint left on it and for that matter it looks kind of nice, so I would not like to see the paint damaged. My car is also a possible target for theft. His is not. For example the rims I purchased for my car are worth a little over $2,500. Dad on the other hand has hub caps which can be purchased at K-mart for $19.95. That’s a price difference of $2480.05. I don’t think he needs to insure those hub caps.
Another objection my dad raises is that he is the first to come home and therefore
should have access to the garage since nobody is parked in it. I am willing to understand
this point but I also have told him that I can move his car out of the garage for him when
I get home. I also am the only person in my house to clean and organize the
the garage. If I did not keep the garage clean then we would not even be having this disagreement because a car would not be able to fit inside the garage.
The last thing I want to do is have a disagreement with my dad over where cars are parked but all I want to do is protect what I have worked so hard to attain. A lot of hard work, energy and money has gone into something that I really like and I would not like to see anything unfortunate happen to my investment. All I ask is for him to listen to my argument and possibly work out a resolution to this problem