I was pulling the boat out of my garage this evening to go fishing and ran my bicycle tire over with the trailer tire, bending the bicycle tire rim. After a few pharases, I realized I have cost myself THOUSANDS of dollars by being careless. Here are some of the "mishaps" I have had.
Ran mailbox over while turning out of driveway with boat. I had to replace the entire wooden post and box.
Ripped molding off garage wall with trailer fender.
Hit and broke taillight lens cover to wife's SUV with back corner of the boat.
And the biggest, most expensive mishap I've had while towing the boat is,
Completely destroying my two car garage door. ,
I backed the boat inside the garage and unhooked the trailer from the truck. I get back into the truck to run some errands and closed the garage door with the garage door opener while pulling out of the driveway. I look in my mirror to make the sure the door closed all the way and noticed the door was going back up. I pushed the door opener AGAIN and watched through the mirror as the door went down and back up. Now, most people would have got out to see what was preventing the door from closing, but not me. Nope, my dumb ars pushed the door opener AGAIN. And I'll be a SOB if that door didn't go down and right back up.
Now I'm MAD. I fished a tournament all day in the heat. I'm tired, grouchy, hungry and just want to run my errand and get back home. I get out of the truck to see what fell over and is preventing the garage door from closing. OMG, dumb ars me forgot to collapse the trailer tongue .
The force of the garage door hitting the trailer tongue (3 times) caused the aluminum panels of the door to crumble beyond repair. New garage door = $2100.
Now , let's see who can top that.