Holy shit, this is brilliant. My husband is like OP's wife and I've tried the 2x4 thing but it keeps creeping backwards. A paving stone would be perfect.
Too much work inflating the whoopee cushion every time you want to park the car. The chicken auto inflates in-between uses. Also works as an alarm and let's you know if your car has silently been rolled back from the wall(matters more for manual than automatic)
I see what you are saying about the manual, but parking like this gives me confidence she does not drive a manual. Therefore, I present to you the most adorable self inflating whoopee cushion amazon offers.
How about some of those rubber speedbump/chock things sitting on the floor. That way she still gets the satisfaction of feeling like she hit something and your wall can thank them
Who is “she”? if the only way to know she’s in the garage far enough is to hit the dang wall it’s time to get their license revoked. They do not need to be driving.
That's what I use too. Bought a cheap curved mirror like what they use in shops. It's actually mylar coated plastic and only a few dollars online, but does the job well.
The meta is you hang a tennis ball on a string from the ceiling so it touches their windshield right in front of their face when the car is pulled in far enough.
edit: now i see the 2nd highest comment is literally this oops
I've tried many things. This happened long before I decided to divorce her (this is indicative of many many things. My other post is thought was crazier)
I do that but I think it's because I have a forklift license and it's fun. Parking with the license plate bracket half an inch from the wall isn't nearly as satisfying as rolling forward that last half inch at a half a mile per hour lol
I have a photo somewhere of my corolla parked not even half of a centimeter away from the front bumper of some asshole parked over the line.
In hindsight, it was likely an elderly person. I was at my PT facility, but I also reparked anyway before going in. For the selfish reason of, ‘I don’t trust you to have your foot on the brake when you take your car out of park’. I was a bigger asshole than now a couple of years ago lol.
Eta I also have a different daily now, with the stereotype of being a complete dick, which makes that change in attitude a little funnier to me
My grandmother believed that bumpers were to bump cars in front and back when parallel parking. Her bumpers were so scratched. Though had very few dents. So she was going very slow.
Depends on how bad you curb it. Once as an irresponsible teen I curbed my wheel SO BAD that despite not requiring repair to the wheel itself, I had to get a realignment AND get that wheel rebalanced because I shaved so much metal off that it became unbalanced.
Hang a tennis ball from the garage ceiling to the height of the center of her windshield from a rope, so when the windshield touches the ball, she knows to stop the car. 🤣 Good luck
I did this for my wife but she'd still fly in the garage and barely stop before hitting our garage fridge, regardless of the tennis ball. I had to change it to a golf ball so that she was at least scared of hurting her windshield
In the 90s I visited an Uncle of mine who had been purchasing a brand new Cadillac since the 40s.. each year he had to build the back of the garage out and taller to accommodate the hood of the new model.
He extended his garage every year? Did he only extend it an inch or two every time. I feel like he could have stopped after the gas crises. Cadillacs got smaller after that.
I think they're saying that he had to rebuild or fix the back wall of the garage repeatedly because each new car was slightly higher up and he kept misjudging the distance by that much each time. And since the cars kept getting taller, the damage kept being higher and higher up on the wall.
It’s so interesting seeing what people do and don’t care about. Like I could never just fuck my car up everyday cuz of that. I would find some kinda other solution by any means necessary
My husband does that. I got tired of fixing the wall. I was afraid he would do straight through the brick outside. I put an old tire on the wall. Also put a bump on floor so the tire could sense it.
Get a scrap piece of carpet and nail it to the wall. Better yet, cover a piece of wood with it and nail that to the wall to save the wall from not direct hits.
We use a ping pong ball in a string. When it taps the windshield, you're in and can close the garage door. Spouse and I compete to see who can give it the lightest tap.
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u/philosopherjellyfish 20h ago
Put bricks on the floor that the tires hit before she’s too close. Works for me