No good deed goes unpunished, Back on the road & drives nice! Options

[markb]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I loaned the Red Car to sww914 while he's waiting for parts for his boat, and he & and older "gentleman" tried to mate fenders. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hissyfit.gif)

Steve is taking care of everything, but he's having a hard time finding an early chrome bumper (the one on the car is one of the ones done by bdstone not too long ago), so if anyone has one, please let me know. Otherwise we'll send mine out to be straightened & re-chromed.

I'm doing my best not to get upset over it, accidents happen, and there's not too much we can do about them. The up-side, is that some of the rust is going to be dealt with (Steve is going above & beyond on that, which is most appreciated), and since they're going to have to do some painting anyway, if I can afford it, I'll get the other rust bubbles dealt with at the same time.

Steve said he's going to take some pics, so maybe he'll post them here.

[sww914]

I received an email this morning from a friend who found this thread and said it sounded like you guys were threatening to take down our website. That is just sad.
I would ask you all to consider a few things.
Mark did me a huge favor by loaning me his car.
If I were going to screw him I would have done it BEFORE I handed him $3000.00 CASH!
There is no internet available to me out in the middle of the ocean.
I tried to mail him a second check. Unfortunately I had to depend on somebody else to mail it for me because we were in Dana Point and I couldn't get to the post office before we left there, the post office is more than a mile from the harbor and the only dinghy parking was a 1 hour tow away zone. I literally didn't have time, the harbor cops there are insane.
Look at a map and tell me where in the fuck we could have possibly had internet when we were 300 miles south of the border in Mexico. WHERE?

So, I thought that I had it handled before we set off away from civilization, much as I thought that I had it handled before we left the SLO area.

Why don't you think, for just a minute, how it must feel to be me. I borrowed a friend's car and crashed it, the first crash in my life. I payed out a bunch of money to get it fixed by a friend, then I continued with my life. My friend (ex friend?) who owns 1/2 of the shop won't return my calls since they hit me with a bullshit additional damage charge.
Mark's getting fucked and his car is just getting more fucked up by the day.
I'm getting fucked and we're in a strange country and out of money. I paypal'd Mark almost half of this month's income last night.
Mark's car is STILL not finished. It's been 6 fucking months!
I've got you guys suggesting you should fuck with our website, our only potential source of future income if we want to keep cruising. Or destroy our home. Nice.