The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Nah, the tinfoil hat deals with that

Sounds like Wizard of Oz!




Would you be thinking of The Ipcress File perchance?

Possibly, but can't really remember.

ivyleaf

Ooh, good luck, Sue and Pastures!

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

:mad: Careless person just reversed out of a driveway straight into our car. Damage looks minor (scratch and dent in door) but quotes seem to be £750 plus so it will be an insurance job. Verbal admission of liability and we have an independent witness but it is just the hassle and of course having an accident even where it is 'no fault' still affects insurance premiums.

I could see everything and was going to toot but the guy slowed as if he were stopping so I looked away to where I was driving and by the time I saw movement in the corner of my eye and sounded the horn it was too late. :mad:

Careless person pulled out of a side road into the side of my car this afternoon while I was taking DD and 3 of her friends to a high ropes thing for a belated birthday party. Big dents all the way along the near side of my car and the passenger door doesn't open properly - suspect they'll write it off because it's nearly 10 years old. He said it was a company car and he didn't know the insurance details but gave me his name and the name of the company. Also we took a photo of his number plate in case he was lying.

Think I will have to go through my insurance company because I don't want to drive it 80 miles tomorrow and haven't got time to wait around trying to get his company to put me in touch with their insurer and then get them to authorise a replacement car.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

... DD ...

I can see how this is NOT a regular "she'll get over it!".
I hope it wasn't too startling, might be a bit edgy for months... and edgier ever after.

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

Careless person pulled out of a side road into the side of my car this afternoon while I was taking DD and 3 of her friends to a high ropes thing for a belated birthday party. Big dents all the way along the near side of my car and the passenger door doesn't open properly - suspect they'll write it off because it's nearly 10 years old. He said it was a company car and he didn't know the insurance details but gave me his name and the name of the company. Also we took a photo of his number plate in case he was lying.

Think I will have to go through my insurance company because I don't want to drive it 80 miles tomorrow and haven't got time to wait around trying to get his company to put me in touch with their insurer and then get them to authorise a replacement car.

Oh Lydia.
:A

I don't know what's the matter with people.


I was at a workshop all weekend, and driving home earlier today I went through several villages with 30mph speed limits. Everybody on the road was keeping to the speed limit.

Later on, on a dual carriageway, there was a short stretch of road with roadwork signs and cones. The driving behaviour couldn't have been more different.
A few hundred yards before the cones started, there were signs saying 30mph limit, and others saying the left lane was closed ahead.
So I got into the right hand lane and slowed to 30mph.
I lost count of the number of cars who pulled back into the left hand lane and sped up to pass me, going quite a bit above 30.

I even started to think that perhaps I had misunderstood the signs, but no, here was another 30mph sign, and a bit further on, yet another one, , so no misunderstanding.

So why is it that in these circumstances, some people think that the speed limit sign is just a suggestion, rather than mandatory?


Ok, the 30mph signs did seem to start quite a way before the cones, but they were still there, and they were mandatory.

When the cones did start, it became obvious......... there was another coned-off lane merging with the one I was on. There wasn't any traffic on that other lane, but that's not the point....doing more than 30 would not have been appropriate.


It's very worrying to have several people undertaking you when you are obeying road signs and keeping to the signed speed limits.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can see how this is NOT a regular "she'll get over it!".
I hope it wasn't too startling, might be a bit edgy for months... and edgier ever after.

She seems ok. She had a bit of a wobble when it happened, but the 3 friends all gathered round to look after her while I was exchanging details with the other driver, and she perked up quite quickly. By the time we got to the ropes place she seemed to have put it out of her mind and was having a blast with her friends. She asked me if I was ok, and I said I was fine because I haven't got space in my brain to get upset about accidents in which nobody is injured. She seems to have decided to take the same attitude.

Pyxis wrote: »

Oh Lydia.
:A

I don't know what's the matter with people.


I was at a workshop all weekend, and driving home earlier today I went through several villages with 30mph speed limits. Everybody on the road was keeping to the speed limit.

Later on, on a dual carriageway, there was a short stretch of road with roadwork signs and cones. The driving behaviour couldn't have been more different.
A few hundred yards before the cones started, there were signs saying 30mph limit, and others saying the left lane was closed ahead.
So I got into the right hand lane and slowed to 30mph.
I lost count of the number of cars who pulled back into the left hand lane and sped up to pass me, going quite a bit above 30.

I even started to think that perhaps I had misunderstood the signs, but no, here was another 30mph sign, and a bit further on, yet another one, , so no misunderstanding.

So why is it that in these circumstances, some people think that the speed limit sign is just a suggestion, rather than mandatory?


Ok, the 30mph signs did seem to start quite a way before the cones, but they were still there, and they were mandatory.

When the cones did start, it became obvious......... there was another coned-off lane merging with the one I was on. There wasn't any traffic on that other lane, but that's not the point....doing more than 30 would not have been appropriate.


It's very worrying to have several people undertaking you when you are obeying road signs and keeping to the signed speed limits.

Agree with all of that in general but in this case I don't think the man was being irresponsible. It was a very awkward junction and he made a mistake and just didn't see me. I'm human too, and however hard I try I don't succeed in driving perfectly.

michaels

The good news is no one was hurt and cars are just objects than can be fixed or replaced.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

The good news is no one was hurt and cars are just objects than can be fixed or replaced.

Absolutely.

CKhalvashi

Pyxis wrote: »

I though you were from Georgia, or am I confusing you with someone else?

If you are from Georgia, you could also...... use this Georgia font!

I am from Georgia, just I've fallen in love with another country. It says Romaniac rather than Romanian.

I could use Georgia font, but I can't stand blocks of text (in this case posts) that are in different fonts to each other.

When I'm trying to skim through something while getting the jist of it my eyes struggle to adjust to the change, and as there is only one of me and a lot of things I personally need to do (instead of being able to delegate to someone else) at the moment I find I'm skimming very often.

CKhalvashi

LydiaJ wrote: »

Careless person pulled out of a side road into the side of my car this afternoon while I was taking DD and 3 of her friends to a high ropes thing for a belated birthday party. Big dents all the way along the near side of my car and the passenger door doesn't open properly - suspect they'll write it off because it's nearly 10 years old. He said it was a company car and he didn't know the insurance details but gave me his name and the name of the company. Also we took a photo of his number plate in case he was lying.

Think I will have to go through my insurance company because I don't want to drive it 80 miles tomorrow and haven't got time to wait around trying to get his company to put me in touch with their insurer and then get them to authorise a replacement car.

Ouch!

In London we used to live just around a fast corner and just before moving up here I had an almost new S-Max written off when hit from the side as it had bent part of the integral structure of the car. I believe the car you have (if you still have it, don't want to post the model here even though I know you have in the past) is also one big lump of metal with doors on it, so it's likely to be similarly difficult to fix.

It did go through as a non-fault claim after a lot of arguing as he was driving a lot faster than 30mph.......

I hope you've got it sorted out so you can do what you need to do tomorrow, and sending hugs to you and DD.