@fly girl - I’m sorry this happened and I would have been aggravated too. My poor mini van endured so many dings, dents, scrapes, scratches and so on from the many years at softball tournaments. I didn’t get a new car until DD19 went to college.
This thread can easily turn into a debate by some things I’m already seeing posted (I didn’t read every single post). My feelings about this are following….
*You had every right to be mad - your property was just damaged
*You had every right to say something - kids can handle it - my parents didn’t go to the old guy down the block (when I was a kid) and be mad at him for yelling at the kids that walked on his lawn. Everyone’s parents told their kid - stay off his lawn!!!
*You have every right to pick up your child from school instead of using the buses. I’m a little surprised to see this even brought up. Someone mentioned taxes - everyone pays taxes for public school and some prefer private school. If you want to pick your kid up, you have every right to pick your kid up. I drove my DDs to HS school every morning before they had a license, and if a student ran in to me, I certainly would never feel that if my DD took to the bus this would never happen, what should never happen is me getting ran into.
What I used to do at softball tournaments, when I was sitting in the car, is have my window open to show people - I’m in here. That helped a lot - people would be a lot more careful when they see someone sitting there. Obviously if weather didn’t allow this, then I would just hope for the best - LOL!
I hope the damage can be concealed a little so it’s not so obvious when looking at it. My DH is great at this, but my van was black and there was some damage that he just couldn’t help with. I finally had to say….this is why I can’t have nice things - LOL!