Car woes, LOL

[ibonekoen]

Sooooooo, roughly three hours after I made this entry about having my car back on the road, this fucking chick runs into the rear driver's side of my car in the parking lot of fucking Wal-Mart, man. X( I was going down the aisle like a normal person, looking for a parking space, and she comes out of nowhere, cutting through the parking spaces from the next aisle over and plows into me.

There's a dent on the rear door and the bumper, and a scratch on the quarter panel. All that has to be replaced, plus they're doing an all-wheel alignment since she hit right on the wheel.

She was apologetic and gave me her contact information, her insurance policy number but said she'd really rather pay for it out of pocket. So I was like "Yeah, okay, whatever, I'll call you with the estimate price."

Monday afternoon, I called her, left a voicemail. No word. Tuesday morning, called her, apparently woke her up, judging from the sleepy sound of her voice, gave her the total, had her freak out "WHAT?! I just hit the bumper!" Uh, noooo, I'm looking at my car and you hit right on the rear wheel. She was like "Okay, I'll have to call you back."

Yesterday afternoon, hadn't heard from her by lunchtime, so I called my insurance to see what I needed to do. Got home last night, had a message from them, they advised me to call her insurance. The claim was filed last night after dinner, and this morning, Progressive called me to schedule repairs for my car and reserve me a rental. XD

I just... My poor little car! I've had it for seven years, and I've only been in one previous accident (I rear-ended a lady, whoops), and that was...ffff, three years ago? Now, in the span of three months, my mom ran over a gator while driving me to the airport, the starter died and now this. I think it's time to trade the bluebird in >_> Or stop driving (Yeah, right.)


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[heartsick]

What a dick!! Man, my car got destroyed in a Wal-Mart parking lot once. ;__; Hit and run, though, so I paid out of pocket. I can't STAND people who drive through the lines. I guess it's one thing if the lot is empty or the store is closed or whatever, but otherwise it's super rude and shit like this happens!

ANYWAY this lady sounds like a fucking bitch. She was probably figuring she could either pay you just a little or just blow you off until you forgot about it. A year or so ago my friend got hit in a parking lot and the guy said he'd pay out of pocket and gave her a number and she called a day later and it was fake! Always ALWAYS go through your insurance because, even if someone is nice, chances are they will try to screw you somehow.

A GATOR. OMG.

At least Progressive didn't try to give you a hard time about it!

[ibonekoen]

Ugh, what is it about Wal-Mart parking lots? :| I'm so sorry that yours was a hit and run! That's even worse! I mean, I'm not gonna lie, I've driven through the lines, but it was in a nearly empty parking lot and there were no other cars around. She squeezed right between two other parked cars. X(

Yeah, my mom was like "You shouldn't have let her intimidate you. You knew what you needed to do." Which, yeah, thanks, Mom, that's really helpful, lol. OMG though :|| I was totally scared that her phone number or the policy number were going to be fake.

OMG, did you miss the gator incident? Oh, maybe I forgot about to write about it here? X( It was back in May. I was going to visit a friend in California, and Mom was driving me to the airport at 2 in the morning. She goes "IS THAT A GATOR?" and as soon as the words were out of her mouth, we were like BABUMP driving over his tail. IDEK, dude, it was freaky as shit. We apparently killed the gator? It twisted its head around to try to bite the car, and we apparently broke its jaw, idk. It was a eight or nine and a half foot gator. It was ridiculous.

Yeah, Progressive was really great about it. The lady was like "I'm so sorry this happened, here let me make all the arrangements."

My mom and I are kinda like "Okay, when is it somebody else's turn?" because in April, her truck got totaled by my uncle. :| He wasn't injured in the accident, thankfully, but he lost control on a rain-slicked road, jackknifed and slammed into a tree. :(

[heartsick]

I think there are just a lot of assholes who go to Wal*Mart, ha! It really was terrible, but I've always driven shitty cars so I'm not even really surprised when something goes wrong anymore.

I'm crazy paranoid about stuff like that. I would have made the cops file a report because fuck that. At least you got it sorted out so easily!

Ahhh gator. It sounds vaguely familiar so it's possible you wrote about it and I had the same reaction and then forgot about it again, as I have the worst memory. But holy shit! At least you killed it...I would NOT want a live gator trying to eat my car.

Aww! I can't say much. I think I've been through at least 5 cars and 5 blown engines since 2004.

[ibonekoen]

Ugh, that's so true!

The cops weren't even called. I've got the number for both the Sheriff's Department and City Police in my contacts on my cell phone, just in case something like this happens again, ha.

It's okay, I don't even remember if I wrote about it, lol. It was the most traumatizing thing ever. And I was going "Oh my god, did we just hit a gator? Oh my god, what do we do? I'm going to miss my flight!" Which I did, of course, but I was able to get on a later flight, lol. Yeeeeeah, we didn't even want to get out of the car because we didn't know if it was alive or not, but luckily, a truck pulled up behind us a few minutes later and asked if we were okay. He said he'd seen the gator in the middle of the road and it was definitely dead. He actually got out and dragged it off the road so nobody else would hit it.

omg, that's crazy! Yeah, I'm thinking about trading my car in after I get it fixed, see if I can get a newer one.