What happened to decency?

[Spinney]

He rocked up a few months later to seek a five year renewal of his professional services contract to find me, to his utter horror, sat in the hot seat and his firm, of which he is the principal, off the short list.

 

[Archie_tect]

That is the damage done, £200 worth to be more precise.

You've done well to get that repaired for £200 gavroche... I still have flashbacks to an away junior soccer match when my son's friend's dad reversed into the space next to our car when my son was getting out of the back door... son's friend's dad didn't see him and just missed him by a whisker, taking the rear door clean off. I couldn't have cared less about the car such was the relief my son was OK.

 

[gavroche]

[QUOTE 2820209, member: 259"]Ouch!

It's ripped the plastic facing off the door as well?[/quote]
Yep, my wife picked it up off the floor.

 

[gavroche]

The car is going in on Tuesday and will be ready Wednesday evening. The good news is that my wife has said she will pay for it. She is a good woman really.

 

[Spinney]

You are getting this the wrong way around. It is not that it doesn't matter because it is a car. It is the fact that many people make a greater thing about it for a car than anything else.

Perhaps the fact that you hear people making a thing about it for cars is that cars are the most likely of one's possessions to get damaged by someone else?

 

[Spinney]

A few years ago, got back from a walk to find wing mirror broken.
Note under windscreen, with apology and phone no.
Phoned, got it repaired (luckily just the glass, so quite cheap), cheque turned up in the post promptly.
Never even saw the guy! He could so easily have not bothered stopping.


Just to say that some people DO do the right thing.

 

[Dan B]

Perhaps the fact that you hear people making a thing about it for cars is that cars are the most likely of one's possessions to get damaged by someone else?

And why is that?

 

[Crackle]

[QUOTE 2820276, member: 259"]My car is crap as well, but I'd still appreciate a post-it note under the wiper to say sorry if someone backs into it.[/quote]
Same. Someone did once. I'm glad, I wouldn't have noticed it, so I was able to ring them up and say don't worry. However, not everyone feels the same. I have to say I don't agree with Greg on this even though I share his sentiment about cars; it isn't about what I think.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 2820179, member: 259"]Your position has been consistently odd, I'll say that much.[/quote]
Odd. You mean at odds with your view. How splendidly egocentric and jolly undecent.

But having seen the full horror of the damage, hugely underplayed by the OP imo, let's draw a line under our squabbling please.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

That is the damage done, £200 worth to be more precise. View attachment 34236

You have a gift for understatement. That's not a dink that's a disgrace.

 

[rich p]

Kerrrrrissst. I've read some cobblers on CC over the years but there's a few people on this thread making a late bid for the 2013 Eejit of the Year Award which @threebikesmcginty and @Crackle were currently running neck and neck at.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 2820308, member: 259"]And I still love you too, Greg. [/quote]
Mutual I'm sure.

 

[Crackle]

Kerrrrrissst. I've read some cobblers on CC over the years but there's a few people on this thread making a late bid for the 2013 Eejit of the Year Award which @threebikesmcginty and @Crackle were currently running neck and neck at.

oh c'mon. 3bm is a runaway favourite

 

[Spinney]

And why is that?

Because they are driven around on the roads and left in car parks etc. People and other cars moving around them all the time.

Not the same opportunity for someone to damage your house, or your TV etc.

 

[theclaud]

Because they are driven around on the roads and left in car parks etc. People and other cars moving around them all the time.

Not the same opportunity for someone to damage your house, or your TV etc.

It seems to me that cars are evidently not very suitable things to drive around and leave around in public places.