WTF

So yesterday I got home and walked around the front of the truck to walk down towards the mailbox.  I stopped dead in my tracks as I looked at the hood of my truck.  It looked like something brown was poured on it.  I then noticed the driver side fender and door had the same junk on it.  I had a shitload of stuff to get done last night, the last thing I felt like dealing with was the truck. 

I was unsure if this was a a result of some junk running off of a tree during the rain from that afternoon or from a deliberate act of vandalism by some asshole that thought it would be fun to pour a soda on the truck.  The stuff did not come off with soap and water.  I later hit the hood with some Turtle Wax.  It removed the dark pigments but you could still see the paint was stained.  With each circle I traced on the hood with the wax I got angrier and angrier. I had convinced myself by that time that this was the result of random vandalism.  I imagined what I would do to the individual that did this if I got my hands on them.

You can see here the line where I waxed and didn’t.  I called it into my insurance company although I am not sure if I will follow through with the claim or not.  As of now my plan is to have a body shop look at it and tell me if it can be rubbed out with buffing compound or not.  It may be able to be cleaned up that way.

I sent out a warning at work to people letting them know to be on the lookout for possible vandals roaming the lot.  One of the employees said she didn’t think it was vandalism.  She claimed the same thing happened to her after a rain when she was parked near a tree. However she also said that it washed right off with water.  Water didn’t do a thing to this stuff in my case.  Who knows, all I know is I am majorly annoyed right now.

If the truck situation wasn’t bad enough I had to deal with more aggravation when I tried to finish mowing the grass.  I noticed when I fired up the mower it sounded like it was laboring to spin the blades.  I shut it off and took a look underneath.  The top of the deck was packed full of glass clippings that were gumming up the works.  As I pulled clumps of wet grass out I felt something loose.  I pulled the loose item and realized it was the piece of metal I used last season to fix the hole in the mowing deck.  Evidently my JB Weld failed allowing grass clippings to once again barf out of the hole, gumming up the works. 

With as high as the grass was there was a ton of clippings flying everywhere.  Even though there wasn’t much real estate left to mow, it took me a long time to finish up.  I had to drive very slowly and stop multiple times to pull out clumps of grass by hand.  Add “fix the mower deck, again” to the to do list of things I have to handle at some point.