Why do people have to touch and run their fingers over our paint?

[vettdrm]

I was wiping the LSP off of a black C-5 that I was getting ready for a show yesterday when my landlord and his office manager came walking up to my shop smiling at the total awesomeness that that car is. First thing that I barked out was "And don't touch it!! Please!!"

Thats always my first comment. I always tell people, " I don't even touch the paint".
The disrespectful are the main reason I quit doin car shows.

[AutowerxDetailing]

Happens to me as well. When they accidentally hit my truck or scratch it, they say (it's a truck).... Drives me insane!!!!

ARGH! I hate this excuse with a passion! The other day I was detailing an AMG CL55 in a business park and this guy with the same truck as me rolled up and started asking if I wanted to wash his car too. I was like "sure, it costs $199.99," and he was like "lol, it's a truck, I don't need it that clean" and then started talking about how you can't apply wax in the sun. I guess he didn't see the canopy off to the side that was blocking out the 9:00am sun. I went back to buffing out the swirls I was working on...

Best part: His truck died before he could pull away. LOL. I'm pretty sure it was an automatic too so I have no idea how he killed it. KARMA!

[AutowerxDetailing]

I almost forgot why I was going to originally post on this thread. I don't mind when people touch my truck or my other daily driver. I encourage it! I keep a Megs clay kit in my truck at all times. Whenever we are at a party or family get together with lots of people I will QD a panel and clay half of it to demo how big of a difference you get when you clay. My brother-in-law yesterday was like "When did the Sham-Wow guy get here?" LOL

[Dugdug]

Seriously, what can they tell about the car that they can't see with their eyes?

Even while gassing up my Camaro today someone comes over to ask me what kind of mileage it gets. He even starts to touch it. Can he tell what MPG it gets?

This happened to me at the autoparts store as well today.

Anyone else have this problem?

[snellvilleauto]

I wish our cars were like boobies, you can stare at them but don't touch unless you want a slap in the face

[BillE]

In all honesty, I think 'touching' is a human trait.

You see something nice and it's kinda natural to wanna touch it. (Wow, does that sentence leave a lot of imagination or what?)

Bill

[ShineTimeDetail]

You touch the paint before you do the car to see if its smooth to clay bar.... Now if its not a clients car there is no reason for it to be touched

[slickooz]

After I detail my car and go to car meets, people always walk up and run their finger on the hood and tell me how smooth it is.... I cringe when they do that.

[BobbyG]

Maybe it's because...

-Their physical and mental composition may be likened to as fecal matter, hell-gravy, and demonic bacteria.

-They are particulates of viscous and biological waste!!

-They are the remains of some evil brown sludge forged in the bowels of road-kill by the Devil himself.

-They're certainly a death-spill sauce from "Hell-on-Earth".

-They have an odor emanating from them that reeks of a million animal corpses being super-heated from the hottest sun from Hell.

-They are hell-spawn.

-They are so horrifying that nothing can adequately be written in a million years, by a million different writers, to describe their demonic-rot-soup stench!

ETC.; ETC.;.........





Bob

Bob,

Tell us what you really mean and this time don't hold back....