To the editor:

I’ve had my truck for a little over a year now. A few weeks after I bought it, a van drove by while I was still in the street walking toward my house and hit the driver’s side mirror. It made an audible bang and was left hanging limp. The driver of the van did not stop. I managed to right the problem by tightening some screws, but then, a few months later, someone hit the mirror again. Now tightening the screws would do no good. The mirror has been hanging useless for eight months or so.

Within the past two weeks, it has been hit twice more, breaking the glass. Today as I was walking to the house, someone hit it from the opposite side of the street. It made a loud enough noise for me to hear it from halfway through the yard, yet the driver went on. I don’t park the truck far from the curb. It can’t be that hard to get around, particularly when there are no other cars coming, as in both the cases I witnessed.

Please, if you hit my truck, or anyone else’s vehicle, resulting in any sort of minor damage, even if it seems insignificant to you, at least leave a note saying that it was an accident and you are sorry. If even one of the people who hit my truck had left such a note, I would probably forgive all of them as a result.

Josiah Legler,

Lawrence