Revolver
11-02-2008, 05:28 PM
Parked my car at Dee Why beach on Saturday arvo, near an intersection with one of those arrangements where the curb comes out to form an L-shape, restricting how far forward you can go. There was some moped thing right against the L-shape curb and then a generous sized space behind it, which I slid into.
Remembered thinking at the time, "well, I could take all this up and leave myself plenty of room" but then thought "that's pretty selfish and another small car might fit in as well" (parking's always at a premium there), so I moved mine back closer to the car behind and left a decent space in front of me for another car.
Only there about 15 minutes or so. Walking back noticed a young family getting out of an oldish Honda Legend parked in front of me. Thought he'd done well to fit the car in with the moped still there. Then get a bit closer and see a note on my car's windscreen.
Yep, you guessed it. His tow bar had rearranged my front grille (twice apparently), whilst attempting to shoehorn his tired luxo-mobile into a tight space.
The weird thing was I felt sorry for him. He was so apologetic and his wife and young kids are looking on (said kids blamed for screaming, etc - yep, been there done that) . Times gone by I probably would have done my nut, etc but I just calmly got some more details from him and told him life's too short to stress about this kind of thing.
Gave him my card and before I could do anything about it this morning he's already emailed me and organising to have his insurer look after it.
Damage isn't too bad - just the lower part of the grill shoved in. Told him to hit it again harder so I could get the nose cone resprayed too! :)
Anyway, boring story but it is evidence that honest people live in Sydney. Hmmm, maybe he was passing through...:uhh: :eyetwitch
EDIT - before I could even finish this post, he's rung me to make more arrangements and apologise again! Should have him stuffed and mounted for posterity! :lol2:
Remembered thinking at the time, "well, I could take all this up and leave myself plenty of room" but then thought "that's pretty selfish and another small car might fit in as well" (parking's always at a premium there), so I moved mine back closer to the car behind and left a decent space in front of me for another car.
Only there about 15 minutes or so. Walking back noticed a young family getting out of an oldish Honda Legend parked in front of me. Thought he'd done well to fit the car in with the moped still there. Then get a bit closer and see a note on my car's windscreen.
Yep, you guessed it. His tow bar had rearranged my front grille (twice apparently), whilst attempting to shoehorn his tired luxo-mobile into a tight space.
The weird thing was I felt sorry for him. He was so apologetic and his wife and young kids are looking on (said kids blamed for screaming, etc - yep, been there done that) . Times gone by I probably would have done my nut, etc but I just calmly got some more details from him and told him life's too short to stress about this kind of thing.
Gave him my card and before I could do anything about it this morning he's already emailed me and organising to have his insurer look after it.
Damage isn't too bad - just the lower part of the grill shoved in. Told him to hit it again harder so I could get the nose cone resprayed too! :)
Anyway, boring story but it is evidence that honest people live in Sydney. Hmmm, maybe he was passing through...:uhh: :eyetwitch
EDIT - before I could even finish this post, he's rung me to make more arrangements and apologise again! Should have him stuffed and mounted for posterity! :lol2: