Well, hasn’t it just been a joyfilled week?<\/p>\n
In addition to all the usual nonesense, our Tuesday evening was nicely spoiled by a young turd verbally abusing us and then not having the common decency to go and throw his Stella-fuelled body under a truck, thereby cleansing the gene pool, saving the DHSS a few quid, and lifting the average intelligence of WS9 a few points. <\/p>\n
Wednesday evening was even better: the commute home was even more<\/i> foul than usual, and featured a nice man rear-ending the Fabia, then not stopping to exchange details then a trip to A&E for us both (whiplash).<\/p>\n
Thursday? A long and fruitless attempt to report this formally to West Mids Police. I won’t bore you with the details. Filling in claim forms.<\/p>\n
Friday? Reporting to the police instead of being in the pub (though we got there eventually).<\/p>\n
Today? A trip to the bodyshop<\/a>. It’s a long way, but 2 years ago<\/a>, they did a fantastic job on the Audi, and they have Skoda approval too. It’s not a cheap business: replacing the bumper is going to be over 700 quid, plus vat. Fortunately, this unwelcome rear-end attention (fnarr!) doesn’t seem to have damaged anything but the bumper skin and beam. I’m now back to the usual state of not owning a car someone hasn’t seen fit to drive into.<\/p>\n So far, I’ve spent upwards of 5 hours of my very valuable time, about 70 miles, and about 5 quid because some dozy fucker couldn’t stop in time, and also seemingly is the sort of pathetic shit who doesn’t have the decency to take responsibility for it. I only hope the soon-to-come visit from a copper might make him see the error of his ways.<\/p>\n And people wonder why I think optimism is a mental illness<\/a>. I know much worse things happen. I really do. but don’t think that will stop me whinging \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, hasn’t it just been a joyfilled week? In addition to all the usual nonesense, our Tuesday evening was nicely spoiled by a young turd verbally abusing us and then not having the common decency to go and throw his Stella-fuelled body under a truck, thereby cleansing the gene pool, saving the DHSS a few … Continue reading Had Better Weeks<\/span>