woman reversed into van - laughed about it.
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I just wanted to rant really.
I live in a cal-de-sac and the 'square' is big enough for three cars to be parked long ways
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I was sitting in the brand new car that had just been delivered, parked on the right there was a van on the left, nothing in the middle.
As I'm sitting there, explaining the DSG gearbox to my other half and this woman in a 7 seater pulls up in the middle. I assume she's gonna park there but she starts doing a three point turn in-between me and this van.
I have previously had £1200 worth of damage to my old car, with no note from someone i guess doing the same manoeuvre a few months back so i am understandably nervous.
Anyway, the inevitable happens, she reverses into the luton van which does the tell tale rock.
She looks directly at me and the other half, smiles as in 'ooops' and carries on.
I get out and wait for her to finish, she winds down the window and i ask 'are you going to leave a note on that van you just hit?'
her immediate response was ' i didn't hit anything'
i point to the dash cam recording
she then changes to the 'theres no damage so why bother' response.
I don't look at the van, or her car because to me, its the principle of her attitude not the fact that there's no damage.
She was completely oblivious to what she had done, not a care in the world. It really frustrated me because it was exactly someone like her that put me £1200 out of pocket..
Anyway. Turns out she wasn't even visiting anyone in the cal-de-sac, she lived in a house 4 doors down out on the main road. She tells me she's going to get her husband who is a police officer..
So, i too inform her of my profession and welcome the inclusion of another party in this little discussion.
She comes back 5 minutes later, no husband, but tells me he said she didn't need to leave a note but to move the car because it would be likely that someone (me?) would damage it because i seemed really angry..
She roared off and i saw her out on the main road, pulling up back outside her own house.
i guess she didn't need to leave a note, but who are we to judge 'no damage' ? - i think my frustration of her laughing and not caring about what she had just done made me see red
anyone have any opinions ?
I live in a cal-de-sac and the 'square' is big enough for three cars to be parked long ways
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I was sitting in the brand new car that had just been delivered, parked on the right there was a van on the left, nothing in the middle.
As I'm sitting there, explaining the DSG gearbox to my other half and this woman in a 7 seater pulls up in the middle. I assume she's gonna park there but she starts doing a three point turn in-between me and this van.
I have previously had £1200 worth of damage to my old car, with no note from someone i guess doing the same manoeuvre a few months back so i am understandably nervous.
Anyway, the inevitable happens, she reverses into the luton van which does the tell tale rock.
She looks directly at me and the other half, smiles as in 'ooops' and carries on.
I get out and wait for her to finish, she winds down the window and i ask 'are you going to leave a note on that van you just hit?'
her immediate response was ' i didn't hit anything'
i point to the dash cam recording
she then changes to the 'theres no damage so why bother' response.
I don't look at the van, or her car because to me, its the principle of her attitude not the fact that there's no damage.
She was completely oblivious to what she had done, not a care in the world. It really frustrated me because it was exactly someone like her that put me £1200 out of pocket..
Anyway. Turns out she wasn't even visiting anyone in the cal-de-sac, she lived in a house 4 doors down out on the main road. She tells me she's going to get her husband who is a police officer..
So, i too inform her of my profession and welcome the inclusion of another party in this little discussion.
She comes back 5 minutes later, no husband, but tells me he said she didn't need to leave a note but to move the car because it would be likely that someone (me?) would damage it because i seemed really angry..
She roared off and i saw her out on the main road, pulling up back outside her own house.
i guess she didn't need to leave a note, but who are we to judge 'no damage' ? - i think my frustration of her laughing and not caring about what she had just done made me see red
anyone have any opinions ?
Pop a note on the van, letting then know you were a witness to any damage, and you've got a video if it's useful to them.
Then leave it at that.
ETA: If her husband really is a police officer, he won't be at all impressed with her using that fact to threaten other people. He can get in big professional bother if things escalate.
Then leave it at that.
ETA: If her husband really is a police officer, he won't be at all impressed with her using that fact to threaten other people. He can get in big professional bother if things escalate.
A lot of the women drivers I know are like that. Giggle and 'Oops' and 'It's only a car' and drive off.
My ex wife doesn't understand why I get so irate when my car is damaged in this way even if it costs money to fix. Same attitude as when she has damaged the car.
Last week I spent £500 getting my motorbike repaired after an attempted theft. 3 days later a neighbour called me to say it was lying on it's side. Someone had swiped it with quite a bit of force and just driven off, no note.
Another £500 of damage.
My ex wife doesn't understand why I get so irate when my car is damaged in this way even if it costs money to fix. Same attitude as when she has damaged the car.
Last week I spent £500 getting my motorbike repaired after an attempted theft. 3 days later a neighbour called me to say it was lying on it's side. Someone had swiped it with quite a bit of force and just driven off, no note.
Another £500 of damage.
Pixelpeep7r said:
As I'm sitting there, explaining the DSG gearbox to my other half and this woman in a 7 seater pulls up in the middle. I assume she's gonna park there but she starts doing a three point turn in-between me and this van.
I have previously had £1200 worth of damage to my old car, with no note from someone i guess doing the same manoeuvre a few months back so i am understandably nervous.
Perhaps she'll be less inclined to do this maneuver a third time and bash something else (joining the dots here).I have previously had £1200 worth of damage to my old car, with no note from someone i guess doing the same manoeuvre a few months back so i am understandably nervous.
croyde said:
A lot of the women drivers I know are like that. Giggle and 'Oops' and 'It's only a car' and drive off.
My ex wife doesn't understand why I get so irate when my car is damaged in this way even if it costs money to fix. Same attitude as when she has damaged the car.
Don't get me started on this. My wife has the same attitude and it drives me fMy ex wife doesn't understand why I get so irate when my car is damaged in this way even if it costs money to fix. Same attitude as when she has damaged the car.
king mental. 
She scratched the plastic bit on the front of 'her' new Qashqai (on a lease that I pay completely for and is in my name) on our own house and claimed it wasn't a problem because it's only a car and they get marked. It had done 1500 miles.
I saw a bloke drive into someone's parked car and then drive off. I told the owner when they turned up and wondered why their car was damaged. Got a call from the fuzz a few weeks later to come and say what I saw in some kind of mini-court thing (the 'bloke' was there too)
He had tried to deny it up to that point, but in the end admitted it.
I'm not usually a busy body but this bloke was an arse, so I grassed him up!
He had tried to deny it up to that point, but in the end admitted it.
I'm not usually a busy body but this bloke was an arse, so I grassed him up!
spikey78 said:
I saw a bloke drive into someone's parked car and then drive off. I told the owner when they turned up and wondered why their car was damaged. Got a call from the fuzz a few weeks later to come and say what I saw in some kind of mini-court thing (the 'bloke' was there too)
He had tried to deny it up to that point, but in the end admitted it.
I'm not usually a busy body but this bloke was an arse, so I grassed him up!
I wouldn't consider you are a busy body, or that you grassed him up, the bloke is obviously an arse as you stated.He had tried to deny it up to that point, but in the end admitted it.
I'm not usually a busy body but this bloke was an arse, so I grassed him up!
David87 said:
Don't get me started on this. My wife has the same attitude and it drives me fking mental.
She scratched the plastic bit on the front of 'her' new Qashqai (on a lease that I pay completely for and is in my name) on our own house and claimed it wasn't a problem because it's only a car and they get marked. It had done 1500 miles.
I don't get this kind of attitude. A friend of mine broke her phone dropping it and just had to get the latest iPhone to replace it. A few weeks later she pulled that out of her bag with the screen all cracked and said she'd dropped that one as well. Why do people have to have the latest brand new things but treat them carelessly and not give a sking mental. She scratched the plastic bit on the front of 'her' new Qashqai (on a lease that I pay completely for and is in my name) on our own house and claimed it wasn't a problem because it's only a car and they get marked. It had done 1500 miles.
t when they damage them? If image matters it's not a very good image if everything you have is battered to bits. It probably is the people who have it all paid for by someone else.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff