Sh4rkyBloke
Jaffa Cake monster
- Location
- Manchester, UK
So there I am, enjoying the commute in to work this morning. It's a damp road surface but it's nice and bright and the air is cool. I'm doing about 20mph down Stretford Road in Hulme, heading towards the City Centre here. There's a car waiting to turn out of the road on the left, just after the garage, and a car waiting to turn into the road from the other lane.... as I get about 20ft away the latter driver just decides to start her turn across my path.....
Cue a long shout of "Whooooooooooooooooah!!!!!!" and application of brakes locking both wheels up. She continues to turn and I skid straight into the side of her, just managing to turn the bike almost sideways before doing so. I hit her fairly hard and she stops, then continues a bit further, then stops and gets out. She's very apologetic and I ask her to continue onto the side road and stop so I can get some details from her. The guy in the car waiting to turn out of the road also asks if I'm okay and says he saw it all and there was nothing I could do. I ask him to park up and give me his details as a witness, which he does. There's also a guy waiting to go into the cafe on the corner of the road, he offers his details too.
I drag the bike (back wheel not turning) into the side road and prop it up against the low wall and get some paper and a pen out and she's still apologising and asking how I am... before saying "Sorry, I didn't see you" and "you were behind a car so I couldn't see you" (the car that was in front of me was about 50m ahead and long past the junction)... then "well, you're not really wearing very bright clothing" to which I say "Oh, so it's my fault then is it?" and she says that that wasn't what she was saying (not sure why make the comment then).
I gather her details and she says she'll pay for any damage, I say fine and say that it's a grand's worth of bike and assume that she has insurance... at this point she starts getting a bit arsey and ranting about "a f*ckin' compo claim, eh?" to which I simply state (again) that the bike costs about 1K and if there's any damage I want it sorting out, and that I'm not paying for it. She then starts ranting about how she said sorry and that I'm getting all arsey about it... wtf? All I asked was whether she had insurance!!!!!
What is it with people... unwilling to take responsibility for their actions!!!!! Grrrrrr.
Cue a long shout of "Whooooooooooooooooah!!!!!!" and application of brakes locking both wheels up. She continues to turn and I skid straight into the side of her, just managing to turn the bike almost sideways before doing so. I hit her fairly hard and she stops, then continues a bit further, then stops and gets out. She's very apologetic and I ask her to continue onto the side road and stop so I can get some details from her. The guy in the car waiting to turn out of the road also asks if I'm okay and says he saw it all and there was nothing I could do. I ask him to park up and give me his details as a witness, which he does. There's also a guy waiting to go into the cafe on the corner of the road, he offers his details too.
I drag the bike (back wheel not turning) into the side road and prop it up against the low wall and get some paper and a pen out and she's still apologising and asking how I am... before saying "Sorry, I didn't see you" and "you were behind a car so I couldn't see you" (the car that was in front of me was about 50m ahead and long past the junction)... then "well, you're not really wearing very bright clothing" to which I say "Oh, so it's my fault then is it?" and she says that that wasn't what she was saying (not sure why make the comment then).
I gather her details and she says she'll pay for any damage, I say fine and say that it's a grand's worth of bike and assume that she has insurance... at this point she starts getting a bit arsey and ranting about "a f*ckin' compo claim, eh?" to which I simply state (again) that the bike costs about 1K and if there's any damage I want it sorting out, and that I'm not paying for it. She then starts ranting about how she said sorry and that I'm getting all arsey about it... wtf? All I asked was whether she had insurance!!!!!
What is it with people... unwilling to take responsibility for their actions!!!!! Grrrrrr.