Got egged. Argh!

Let me preface by saying I live in a transitional neighborhood in DC (Adams Morgan) so on my street I have million dollar condos adjacent to subsidized housing. In my garage alone, we have a Murci, 360 spyder, 996TT, Maserati, and my humble 996 Cab along with your assorted BMW's and Mercs. I've often wondered what our less fortunate neighbors must think when watching the constant trafiic in and out of your garage. Now I know. As I was leaving my garage last night for dinner, my windshield was covered in an explosion of white and yellow. I immediately pulled over and jumped out to scan the streets and windows, to no avail. So I went back in and spent 45 minutes getting all that crap off the windshield and paint. Fortunately or unfortunately, I had just gotten my car washed and waxed. I'm a pretty open minded guy but I have to admit, I thought twice about my choice in neighborhoods. Oh well, at least it hit the windshield and not a body panel.

Hunt them down and make them wash it for you!

By the sounds of it just be glad they didn't shoot at you!

+2 at least it hit the windshield and not the paint. Have you seen the damage an egg does to the paint ! yikes.

No kidding. Someone did get killed there not too long ago. But with the anger of the moment, I was ready to run into the projects and start knocking on doors demanding to search their fridges.

Sorry to hear about that. Transitional is spot on. You'll have to take your lumps for a while. That's why I lived in Falls Church and would hit the bars in Adams Morgan, etc.. Never thought about moving closer in to the district with the convenience of the Metro by my townhouse.

Grim. I'm thinking mr. "hunt them down" has never been to a transitional neighborhood in DC. Maybe he'd like to volunteer his services???

My house was egged and my SUV was shot with a paintball gun this Halloween. First time ever in the 10 years I've been in this house. They shot a few other cars that were parked on the street that night too. So in short it can happen anywhere even in neighborhoods that aren't being gentrified.

Yep - just feel greatful that they didn't hit the paint with the eggs. I had that happen, and it left a nice ringed mark that never fully buffed out of my last car Can happen anywhere - people are people, and many of them are idiots!

Why is it that eggs are so damaging? My Jeep Cherokee was egged 20 years ago, and I've never forgotten the permanent damage to the paint on the A pillar. They seem so harmless, those eggs.

There are 2 problems...first the shell which is hard as h*ll, then there is the acid in the soft material. So it first scratches the paint and then etches it.

Counting my blessings. My neighbor got his roof slashed and his gps stolen out of his Boxster. Bunch of damage to the body too where they stepped on it to get in the car. I'm going to leave my top down all the time... Of course then I'll have to put it up when I leave the garage to defend from flying eggs.

And, they're bad for your cholesterol.

Sounds like a job for Trunk Monkey !

Sorry to hear that. Still, it is better to live right in the city with nightlife and no commute than to live out in the burbs with hours of commuting in rush hour traffic each day and the silent tranquility of death in the evenings And I really like the trunk monkey idea . . . just don't spank it if it's bad

Better than getting keyed...

No, it isn't. You can repaint your car. You can't do anything to overcome the stifling silence and boredom of the burbs

Yeah, I'm definitely a city boy. However, this makes me rethink the "emerging neighborhood" choice against the relative safety of Georgetown. Unfortunately, I've been keyed too but that was in another city altogether.

Yeah, I have no room to talk since I live in p*ssy Georgetown with a private two car garage. If I were your age, though, I think your neighborhood would be more fun . . . although the co-eds in my neck of the woods contribute nicely to the scenery.

Stifling silence? I think not. Last night we watched Supernanny and did homework with the kids. You've got nothing on us badass suburbanites.

LOL. We watched Supernanny, did homework with the kids, used my glock to pick-off a few vandals from the upstairs window, and then later found a crack-ho for a little christmas fun after the kids were asleep, after verifying true gender of course. You hicks have nothing on us urbanites for the humor challenged among us, it should be painfully obvious that everything I am saying here, apart from the commuting issue, is being said tongue-in-cheek. I know 996convert, and I am just fooling around, so, for God's sake, don't get your panties in a wad. So long as you are happy where you live, it really doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about it

Yup I live in a gentrifying neighbourhood of nashville and i've noticed 2 things all my friends across the USA are moving out to nowheresville with no community and no life in subdivisions with 5 different types of cookie cutter houses i get asked all the time, why don't you live in franklin, why don't you live in brentwood, why don;t you live in green hills They don't get the fact that after spending all my life in London I would rather have crack houses 3 blocks away that live in boredomland but each to his own....

That math definitely went into my decision making: Lots of 18-24 homogenous hotties in G-town vs. lots of 21-30 diverse hotties in AM. Diversity and more appropriate age demographic won that battle.

TD, I think my panties are wet.

I was getting egged every so often. Put a camera on the house to see who it was. Dumb a@@ kids with nothing better to do. Drive around and egg the nice cars, etc. Fun will be coming to an end.

You need to get a paintball gun and do some snipeing.....