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Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« on: 18 August 2011, 20:21:31 »
The cheek of it. Driving home tonight, coming in to my street with various parked cars on the road. Rather than deciding to give way to me a lady in a rover 25 kindly decided to veer in to my lane to attempt to squeeze past. Knew it was going to be tight so i slowed down and moved over as far as i could but she kept coming and coming until be hit my wing mirror pushing it back with a mighty thud.

Best of all she carried on driving! After a police executed 3 point turn ;D i was soon behind her and managed to get her to stop.

Not the biggest accident in the world but its the courteous thing to do to at least stop. After a brief examination of the wing mirror to find no damage to my car she apologized for veering out and for not stopping.

Some people just dont know the basics ::)

 
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #1 on: 18 August 2011, 20:28:56 »
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The cheek of it. Driving home tonight, coming in to my street with various parked cars on the road. Rather than deciding to give way to me a lady in a rover 25 kindly decided to veer in to my lane to attempt to squeeze past. Knew it was going to be tight so i slowed down and moved over as far as i could but she kept coming and coming until be hit my wing mirror pushing it back with a mighty thud.

Best of all she carried on driving! After a police executed 3 point turn ;D i was soon behind her and managed to get her to stop.

Not the biggest accident in the world but its the courteous thing to do to at least stop. After a brief examination of the wing mirror to find no damage to my car she apologized for veering out and for not stopping.

Some people just dont know the basics ::)

 


any chance you could explain what one of these is ??  :y
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #2 on: 18 August 2011, 20:31:28 »
Yeah scrap the police bit, should have said a perfectly executed one by me;D
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #3 on: 18 August 2011, 20:38:03 »
She aspires to own a BMW, but a BMW Rover is all she can currently afford :P
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #4 on: 18 August 2011, 20:42:44 »
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She aspires to own a BMW, but a BMW Rover is all she can currently afford :P

Yeah! and at her rate there wont be much left of it ;D
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #5 on: 19 August 2011, 00:34:24 »
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The cheek of it. Driving home tonight, coming in to my street with various parked cars on the road. Rather than deciding to give way to me a lady in a rover 25 kindly decided to veer in to my lane to attempt to squeeze past. Knew it was going to be tight so i slowed down and moved over as far as i could but she kept coming and coming until be hit my wing mirror pushing it back with a mighty thud.

Best of all she carried on driving! After a police executed 3 point turn ;D i was soon behind her and managed to get her to stop.

Not the biggest accident in the world but its the courteous thing to do to at least stop. After a brief examination of the wing mirror to find no damage to my car she apologized for veering out and for not stopping.

Some people just dont know the basics ::)

 


any chance you could explain what one of these is ??  :y

i think he means one of these.

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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #6 on: 19 August 2011, 08:03:49 »
I had a similar incident when living in Paris.  I was in very slow moving traffic where about 10 cars were vying for position into 2 lanes.  A woman on my left was edging closer and closer, but knowing the priorité à droit rule I continued to edge forward.  Next thing I knew she had straightened up and driven forward breaking my side mirror clean off.

She looked at me and shrugged her shoulders, I was in shock at the cheek.  We were still in slow moving traffic so I composed myself got out of the car walked over to her car with my mirror in hand and gave her mirror a thump of a kick taking it clean off and shattering it.  I looked at her and shrugged my shoulders and got back in my car.

I was convinced the police were going to be called and whisk me away for another beating while handcuffed to the radiator session, but no....nothing  :y
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #7 on: 19 August 2011, 09:21:56 »
That's Paris for you! ;) I work with a fella who grew up in Paris and he'd think nothing of bumping your car out of the way if the space he's trying to park in is too small.. apparently that's what you do over there!

Fortunately I think he's realised it's not a good idea over here  ;D
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #8 on: 19 August 2011, 09:24:42 »
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That's Paris for you! ;) I work with a fella who grew up in Paris and he'd think nothing of bumping your car out of the way if the space he's trying to park in is too small.. apparently that's what you do over there!

Fortunately I think he's realised it's not a good idea over here  ;D

Actually I think it was a good thing in the days of black plastic bumpers.  You left your car in neutral and out of gear and it was 'moved' for you  :y
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« Reply #9 on: 19 August 2011, 10:07:10 »
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Actually I think it was a good thing in the days of black plastic bumpers.  You left your car in neutral and out of gear and it was 'moved' for you  :y

Yep precisely - the only thing is.. they all still drive as if we had black plastic/metal bumpers  ;D
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« Reply #10 on: 19 August 2011, 10:13:19 »
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Actually I think it was a good thing in the days of black plastic bumpers.  You left your car in neutral and out of gear and it was 'moved' for you  :y

Yep precisely - the only thing is.. they all still drive as if we had black plastic/metal bumpers  ;D

This sounds like the dodgems suggestion!!
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #11 on: 19 August 2011, 12:31:33 »
I enjoyed watching a similar incident a few years ago at the Dartford tunnel.  Traffic was at a crawl after the toll booths where many lanes merge before the tunnel.  A bloke in a hatchback ahead of me was playing mind games with the driver to his left, pulling gradually closer in the hope of forcing his way in. 

The driver to his left didn’t give way and they inevitably made contact.  Trouble is the driver to his left was in a HGV, and its umpteen wheel nuts gently mangled off the hatchback’s front wing. 

Total damage to the wagon – er... zero.
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #12 on: 19 August 2011, 12:42:54 »
A friends son in france used to push the car in front, if they didnt set off at the lights on amber.
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Re: Cheeky lady hit my wing mirror and drove off!
« Reply #13 on: 19 August 2011, 13:44:26 »
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A friends son in france used to push the car in front, if they didnt set off at the lights on amber.

I hope not!  The amber is exclusively used before the stop on the lights in France :y
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