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Why don't people own up...

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  • adamc260
    adamc260 Posts: 2,055 Forumite
    Paradigm wrote: »
    A big thumbs up then :T Bet you don't next time!



    Maybe I'm a cynic when it comes to the internet but with everone professing to be the worlds best driver I wonder......

    I'm not the worlds best driver.. but if i damage something then I should pay to sort it!
  • Honeydog
    Honeydog Posts: 877 Forumite
    That's why I always choose really random parking spaces (drives my mates mad but hey who cares.) Miles away from the door and usually with only one space at the side. People are generally lazy, careless and dishonest so you have to try and prevent stuff happening in the first place.

    Sometimes if I can't find a space I'm happy with I'll go to another car park.
    Don't grow up. Its a trap!

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  • adamc260
    adamc260 Posts: 2,055 Forumite
    Honeydog wrote: »
    That's why I always choose really random parking spaces (drives my mates mad but hey who cares.) Miles away from the door and usually with only one space at the side. People are generally lazy, careless and dishonest so you have to try and prevent stuff happening in the first place.

    Sometimes if I can't find a space I'm happy with I'll go to another car park.

    The thing is when I got there the carpark was empty bar my friends car and it can hold A LOT of cars... I come out and this person is parked right next to me, makes no sense!?
  • Notmyrealname
    Notmyrealname Posts: 4,003 Forumite
    adamc260 wrote: »
    Why can't people just own up if they cause damage, she could of clearly seen the damage she'd caused and now I'm the one who has to foot the bill

    Lovely!

    Because if they own up then they have to foot the bill.
  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    I left a note on a tatty VW beetle I thought I had damaged (the bumper was sticking out at an extreme angle). Turned out it was already damaged & quite possibly their fault my car got scratched.
    Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits
  • Sgt_Pepper_2
    Sgt_Pepper_2 Posts: 3,644 Forumite
    I left a note on a tatty VW beetle I thought I had damaged (the bumper was sticking out at an extreme angle). Turned out it was already damaged & quite possibly their fault my car got scratched.

    ???

    You left a note but its possibly their fault, what an I missing?
  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    Sgt_Pepper wrote: »
    ???

    You left a note but its possibly their fault, what an I missing?

    That I thought it was my fault when it wasn't & owned up. My car was pretty tatty too though :rotfl:
    Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits
  • adamc260
    adamc260 Posts: 2,055 Forumite
    Because if they own up then they have to foot the bill.

    Instead i'm lumbered with paying for someone elses carelessness.

    Ringing around getting some quotes now, hopefully it isn't going to cost me a bomb! I've got the money to sort it but that's not the point :(
  • Sgt_Pepper_2
    Sgt_Pepper_2 Posts: 3,644 Forumite
    That I thought it was my fault when it wasn't & owned up. My car was pretty tatty too though :rotfl:

    So who's fault was it? You hit a stationary vehicle.
  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    Sgt_Pepper wrote: »
    So who's fault was it? You hit a stationary vehicle.

    No ones. If his bumper had not been stuck out at a 90 degree angle I would not have hit it. If you can imagine the height of this bumper would have been in the blind spot where you would judge the distance to the other car by the bonnet as the sticking out bumper was hidden by my passenger door.
    Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits
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