judecorp | Jude - 1, Utility Pole

I had my first ever car-damage incident of my life today, which is pretty effing amazing considering I've done home visits for 3 years, with the last 2 in Dorchester and Roxbury. I drove past the home of my new family and went to turn around in a really narrow driveway on a very busy street (Quincy St. in Dorchester, for the interested), and when I went to back out of the driveway onto the street (with the bazillion cars), I rubbed the side of the car on a nasty utility pole. It made one of those awful sounds and I'm sure everyone was watching. Whoops.

When I got to the house, I got out to survey the damage. I was going to take a picture, but I forgot. Anyway, everything from the front wheel-well on the driver's side to the curve of the bumper was scratched up and brown and it looked AWFUL. I tried to rub some of the creosote out but it wouldn't budge.

I got home and tried to wash it off with soap and water (no way) and then WD-40 (still a no go). I remembered that I had grabbed a tube of that "as seen on TV" scratch remover (you know, the one that purports to be for any color car) from my Dad's house when we were cleaning it out and figured, 'Eh, what the heck.' And HOLY CRAP, it got every speck of brown nastiness off of the car.

There are still a couple of good-sized scratches in the car (where I rubbed the paint clear off to the base) - one on the side of the car itself and the other on the plastic bumper - but without the two feet of brown scrapes you can hardly notice them. And now that the brown stuff is gone and not drawing attention to the area, you can't see the little bit of dent, either. Not too shabby.

Flawless victory.