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American insanity, this entire thread.
Cars are built to handle much, much worse abuse. As long as you don't smack the next car with your door, there will be zero visible changes from leaning a door against it. Touching other cars is normal and acceptable, just take a little care with it.
If the boomer insists, we can both take photos of the crime scene and she's free to call my liability insurance. Further discussion is unnecessary.
After, she can petition the store/city to widen all the parking spaces to better fit modern SUVs. They probably haven't done that since the 80s, when cars where half a foot slimmer. That will only take a little paint, and reduce the number of spots, but by less than 10%.
Until then, I will park in any and all spots I can physically squeeze my car into.
FWIW, germans are also ultra-careful with cars and get easily angered by even the tiniest scratch, which, in their view, needs to get removed ASAP and the guilty party has to pay for it no matter how disproportionate the cost/benefit ratio. It's just what you do.
That said, touching another car is I think considered merely careless and if no scratch results, there is no problem. But I wouldn't be terribly surprised that some boomers would start loudly complaining. Again, it's just what they do.
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