Man finds heartwarming note on his car, accidentally makes kid's day

The car had an Autobot emblem on the side.
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Brian Koerber
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Find a handwritten note on your car and you can likely assume bad news is coming.

Redditor Doc_Toboggan discovered a note on his vehicle recently. Expecting the worst, he was relieved to find out that nobody hit his car and instead, he made a little kid's day by owning a flashy car.

CARD ID: 233563, CARD TYPE: Imgur

The note, left by one of his neighbors, describes an adorable scene. His neighbor's son had recently discovered Transformers, and thought his bright blue Dodge Challenger was a robot, and not just a normal, flashy-looking car.

"My son just started watching Transformers a few weeks ago. He is almost 4yrs old and may or may not have slapped your car a few times to try and wake him up (sorry). We took a few pictures of him with your car, you honestly made his day (and possibly skewed his perception of reality for the next decade.)"

In the Reddit comments, Doc_Toboggan noted that his car has an Autobot emblem on the side, so you really can't blame the 4-year-old for thinking his car was actually a Transformer.

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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