One thing you'll find if you spend a lot of time in car graveyards, as I do, is handwritten notes that tried—and failed—to buy a little more time for an illegally parked and presumably broken vehicle. Perhaps these heartfelt notes aren't quite as sad a boneyard sight as, say, a Mega Blox toy fire truck or a Happy Elephant hood ornament, but each one represents a really bad day for some car owner. Here are some such notes that I found during 2022.
Your car or truck won't start, and it's parked in a red zone or apartment-complex guest spot. What now, you think. I can say, from having collected many junkyard-found heartfelt notes to tow-truck drivers over the decades, that such notes mostly don't help. The driver of the tow company's truck doesn't have a choice in the matter. The call came in on your dead car and the job must be done.
Yes, even painting your heartfelt note on the decklid won't work. You'll need to spend some money to get that machine moved, because once it gets towed against your will the cost to retrieve it will be immense.
