A few days ago, Pepper backed out of the garage with the car door open and totally bent the window frame on the door.
It wasn’t as bad as the time Zaque backed into the garage door, but it was a mess. Today she took it to a body shop in Polson, who put together an estimate to repair the door. It turns out that in addition to a new window frame, the (fairly minimal) damage to the door itself would require some parts and then some paint. The paint is kind of a horror show, because they have to match what’s on the front door as well as the rear quarterpanel.
In the end, the tally came out to roughly three thousand dollars. Pepper must’ve looked pretty forlorn when the shop guy explained all of it to her. “You know, another thing you could do is just bend it back,” he remarked.
She’d tried to bend it back at home, but it’s all metal and wouldn’t budge.
She walked out to the car to take another look at it, and it was already fixed. One of the other guys in the shop had literally grabbed the two ends of the window frame and bent it back… with his bare hands. She said he wasn’t really all that “pumped”, but apparently had enough arm strength to just do it in ten seconds.
So yeah, our door is a bit dinged, and if you look closely enough you’ll see the window frame isn’t completely straight, but a ten-second strongman trick sure beats a three-thousand-dollar repair job…