So I'm waiting to back into a spot at a local mexican restaurant while some teenager yapping on her cell one is taking foever and a day to vacate said spot. I'm behind an F150 truck and I see his reverse lights come on. Surely he sees me right? So he starts to back out. I give a courtest honk. He stops......then proceeds to back out right into my car. The whole time I've got the (weak pathetic) P5 horn nailed. A sickening crunch ensues and I imagine the worst.
I pull into the now vacated spot and the truck continues to back out as if he's just going to pull away. I take note of his plates in case he tries anything funny (keep in mind I have not seen if there was any damage to my car yet.
I get out of my car to assess the damage which (thankfully) is slim to none. A slight almost unnoticable dent in my door and this jerk has still not gotten out of his truck to ask if we ( my wife, mother and sister in law in the car) are okay. I motion over to him to stay put and I walk over and say
"Sir, did you not hear me honking? Anyways there seems to be slim to no damage but I'd like to swap info just in case". At this point he finally gets his behind out to the truck to take a look at my car and sees that the damage is slim to none. He says in the really condescening tone something to the effect of "I don't see anything" not I'm sorry or are you all okay or sorry I backed my big freakin truck into your car. He just shrugs everything off and gets back into his truck
Now he has a huge car with massive blind spots (even with those gigantic mirrors) and accidents do happen so if he had come out and said. Man I never even saw you I'm sorry. I would have been fine and just said don't worry about it.
But the guys attitude was so condescending and arrogant and he just really rubbed me the wrong way. I walk over to his car and say, sir we should switch info just in case.
He says that he would rather just pay out of pocket and he says that $40 should cover it. At this point his tone is really ticking me off and I feel as though he's treating my like a child and trying to placate me with money so I'll just go away.
I weigh my options in my mind either get into it with this jerk and tell hime to give me his dang info already, or take the cash (since the damage was quite minute really) and not waste any more breath on this guy. I usually am the type to say "don't worry about it" if I'm dealing with a decent human being but since this guy was a "scum of the earth type" I took the $40 bucks and told him to drive more carefully and be aware of his surroundings.
It's not so much about the money but the guys attitude. He was just wholly unpleasant.
Anyways I joined my family for a good dinner and put it out of my mind but just felt the need to vent.
The moral of this story: I need to invest in a freakin train horn!
I pull into the now vacated spot and the truck continues to back out as if he's just going to pull away. I take note of his plates in case he tries anything funny (keep in mind I have not seen if there was any damage to my car yet.
I get out of my car to assess the damage which (thankfully) is slim to none. A slight almost unnoticable dent in my door and this jerk has still not gotten out of his truck to ask if we ( my wife, mother and sister in law in the car) are okay. I motion over to him to stay put and I walk over and say
"Sir, did you not hear me honking? Anyways there seems to be slim to no damage but I'd like to swap info just in case". At this point he finally gets his behind out to the truck to take a look at my car and sees that the damage is slim to none. He says in the really condescening tone something to the effect of "I don't see anything" not I'm sorry or are you all okay or sorry I backed my big freakin truck into your car. He just shrugs everything off and gets back into his truck
Now he has a huge car with massive blind spots (even with those gigantic mirrors) and accidents do happen so if he had come out and said. Man I never even saw you I'm sorry. I would have been fine and just said don't worry about it.
But the guys attitude was so condescending and arrogant and he just really rubbed me the wrong way. I walk over to his car and say, sir we should switch info just in case.
He says that he would rather just pay out of pocket and he says that $40 should cover it. At this point his tone is really ticking me off and I feel as though he's treating my like a child and trying to placate me with money so I'll just go away.
I weigh my options in my mind either get into it with this jerk and tell hime to give me his dang info already, or take the cash (since the damage was quite minute really) and not waste any more breath on this guy. I usually am the type to say "don't worry about it" if I'm dealing with a decent human being but since this guy was a "scum of the earth type" I took the $40 bucks and told him to drive more carefully and be aware of his surroundings.
It's not so much about the money but the guys attitude. He was just wholly unpleasant.
Anyways I joined my family for a good dinner and put it out of my mind but just felt the need to vent.
The moral of this story: I need to invest in a freakin train horn!
