Lost property in rental car

JayRo3

Mercdriver wrote: »

You have a right to grow up and take responsibility for your own actions.

Ok let's just nip this in the bud for everyone else who may add their 2cents around 'growing up'.

What part of my post suggests I need to grow up and/or haven't taken responsibility for my actions? They were left in a car that was given back without me. I'm sorry, what part of that is childish?

The part about blaming my partner was clearly a joke.. perhaps I need to be more selective with punctuation next time.

neilmcl

JayRo3 wrote: »

Ok let's just nip this in the bud for everyone else who may add their 2cents around 'growing up'.

What part of my post suggests I need to grow up and/or haven't taken responsibility for my actions? They were left in a car that was given back without me. I'm sorry, what part of that is childish?

The part about blaming my partner was clearly a joke.. perhaps I need to be more selective with punctuation next time.

I think the salient point though is, by whom.

JayRo3

What exactly is your point and how does that constructively answer the question regarding the likelihood of getting the sunglasses back?

Not a single person has offered anything positive yet most of you have taken the time to respond blaming me for leaving them in the car (I'm not repeating the story of the car hand back because you have time and eyes).

Forget it. Next time I'll buy sunglasses from Primark - hopefully then I'll deserve to keep them.

I thought this was MSE not mumsnet...

AdrianC

JayRo3 wrote: »

What exactly is your point and how does that constructively answer the question regarding the likelihood of getting the sunglasses back?

His point seems fairly clear. Forget the sunnies, they're gone. It's nobody's fault bar the people who left expensive personal items in a hire car that was going back. From that point on, seeing them again would be a bonus, not an expectation.

JayRo3

AdrianC wrote: »

His point seems fairly clear. Forget the sunnies, they're gone. It's nobody's fault bar the people who left expensive personal items in a hire car that was going back. From that point on, seeing them again would be a bonus, not an expectation.

If his point was clear I wouldn't have asked. I came here to ask if anyone had any luck retrieving them and his reply was 'it's your own fault for leaving them in the car'. I didn't ask whose fault it was.

YES, we left them in the car. That doesn't mean it's OK for the company to take them. So with that being said, I don't think victim blaming is appropriate.

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JayRo3 wrote: »

If his point was clear I wouldn't have asked. I came here to ask if anyone had any luck retrieving them and his reply was 'it's your own fault for leaving them in the car'. I didn't ask whose fault it was.

YES, we left them in the car. That doesn't mean it's OK for the company to take them. So with that being said, I don't think victim blaming is appropriate.

Not sure that phrase is appropriate in the context of leaving sunglasses in a car :eek:
They are gone forget about them, Poundland probably do some nice replacements

AdrianC

Do you know the "company took them"? Of course you don't.

Perhaps somebody working for the company took them.
Perhaps the next person who rented the car took them.
Perhaps they're still in the car.

The one thing that you know for sure is that leaving them in the car was a mistake that was easily avoided.

It's not "victim blaming". It's simple common sense to look after your stuff and not try to point the finger at everybody else when the inevitable happens.

neilmcl

Its not that unusual to find stuff left behind from previous customers when hiring a car, particularly if it's in high demand so the "cleaning" in between customers tends to be fairly cursory. You have absolutely no evidence to suggest the hire company are thieves or liars (your words), it could quite easily have been the next customer for all you know. Leaving an expensive pair of sunglasses behind in a car hire isn't much different to leaving them in any other place the public could frequent.

Comms69

JayRo3 wrote: »

If his point was clear I wouldn't have asked. I came here to ask if anyone had any luck retrieving them and his reply was 'it's your own fault for leaving them in the car'. I didn't ask whose fault it was.

YES, we left them in the car. That doesn't mean it's OK for the company to take them. So with that being said, I don't think victim blaming is appropriate.

Victim?? No-one mugged you.


You lost something, take responsibility for it.

agrinnall

I have twice left things in hotel rooms: a phone charger that I left plugged in, and a set of keys that fell out of my bag when it toppled over. Once I discovered the items were missing I rang the hotels, the key were found and returned to me, the charger was reported as not found. Did I cry about it? No I didn't, I chided myself for carelessness and moved on. Some you win and some you lose.