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Offline RedRobin

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RedRobin's car damaged....
« on: 08 September 2008, 19:26 »

Like stealthwolf, I had an incident myself today. Stopped at Waitrose to get some food for tonight on the way home and thought I'd save myself 50p for just a 15 minute stop by using their free undershop indoor carpark - I've never done that before. To lessen the chances, I found a corner spot - 50% less chance I thought.

All went well until exiting onto the road afterwards when a kid, with his mother trailing behind but not being attentive, rushed in front of me. I instinctively pulled hard to the left to avoid and.......... crrrunch!! My front splitter hit the kerb. I was only doing about 5 mph and even had had eye contact with the mother - And no! She wasn't a fit hottie or even a milf!

I should have been angry with the mother but couldn't be arsed - Am sure by her general attitude I'd be wasting my time. A blast of my air horns woke them up though!

I've already had a word with my VW dealer's affiliated workshop whose boss I know and like, and he's said he'll fit it in tomorrow morning. Waitrose carpark, he said, yes it's a well-known blackspot.

Could have been a lot worse!
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Re: RedRobin's car damaged....
« Reply #1 on: 08 September 2008, 19:29 »
doh, Iv also got some damage to my windscreen (post in stealthwolfs thread). Looks like we are all having a run of bad luck at the moment. You are right tho, could have been much worse.

Good to hear your getting it sorted tho.

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Re: RedRobin's car damaged....
« Reply #2 on: 08 September 2008, 19:33 »
Sorry to hear that Red. Could have been a lot worse though - for both the child and your car  :smiley:

Things sound like they should get sorted relatively quickly though, which is good news!

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Re: RedRobin's car damaged....
« Reply #3 on: 08 September 2008, 19:37 »
Gosh i just saw the Subject and thought OMG!!!!! I was preparing myself to hear the worst!

Glad to hear it was relatively minor!
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Re: RedRobin's car damaged....
« Reply #4 on: 08 September 2008, 19:42 »
Yep as in the other thread... totally understand how you feel!! I myself had a tw4t cause £1400 worth of damage in a moment of madness... Enough said really... cant even be jacked to talk about it.

Im just looking forward to when he calls me back and I tell him how much it costs :grin:

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Re: RedRobin's car damaged....
« Reply #5 on: 08 September 2008, 19:44 »
Gosh i just saw the Subject and thought OMG!!!!! I was preparing myself to hear the worst!

Glad to hear it was relatively minor!

....Sorry if the title made it sound more serious but I do enjoy a bit of drama occasionally ;)

Cheers :afro:
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Re: RedRobin's car damaged....
« Reply #6 on: 08 September 2008, 19:50 »
What is going on!! Ok so mine isnt as bad as you two, but yesterday some fool came the wrong way down a one way, i was about 10 metres from the blind junction he pulled in from and my only way of avoiding a head on was to go up onto a rather large curb. First scratch to my alloys. pretty annoyed and waited til the last minute to pull over but he was goin about 40 wen he pulled in and was completely oblivious. it wont suprise you to know he was driving a bmw. Anyway not too bad in terms of cost just annoying. Hope you get it sorted soon Robin  :wink:


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Re: RedRobin's car damaged....
« Reply #7 on: 08 September 2008, 20:04 »
Sorry to her about your little ding RR.  :sad:

But as you said it could have been a lot worse.

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Re: RedRobin's car damaged....
« Reply #8 on: 08 September 2008, 20:45 »
Dude, sounds so harsh. Hope it gets fixed okay.

Women with children are a nasty combo.

My dad was driving down the main road, not even 50 yrds from the house. Some toddler decided to run out. He hit the brakes as hard as he could but still managed to hit the child (was almost at a stop too). No bruises or anything but the mother blamed the kid and apologised. Yet had she had the kids under proper control, nothing would have happened. As it was, the kid was fine.

Worse still are women with pushchairs, especially the ones who put the pram/pushchair into the road before looking to cross. Sometimes they don't look and expect traffic to stop for them.

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Re: RedRobin's car damaged....
« Reply #9 on: 08 September 2008, 21:43 »

 She wasn't a fit hottie or even a milf!

:grin: She is "m" in "milf" by definition. I guess she was "milfk"  :wink:
I am bugged by women drivers recently, they just cannot behave on the road.  :angry: