Still nice people in the world

witnessmenow

Sorry about the crap title, brain not working so good today!

I was driving a van there a few weeks ago and i wont get into how it happened but i clipped a parked car with the side of the van. Did a decent amount of damage: dented and scraped back wing, scrathced the back bumper

I waited around for the owner to come back and when she did she was very calm about and really put me to ease. I gave her my details. She came back to me a few weeks later with two qoutes, one from the Ford garage (€2500) and one from Johnny Whoever up the road from her (€700/800)

Then she rang me there this week to say its done and it only cost €600, she also told me that she didnt need the money up front, she said i could pay €200 one month €200 the next etc.. , basically she said she didnt want me to borrow money for it.

Any one else have similar good experiences with people?

De Hipster

Marry her! They are few & far between these days.

witnessmenow

Unfortunatly the half you age and add 7 rule doesnt work in our favour :pac:

MCMLXXXIII

...I rear-ended someone once. It was only at about 20mph, but it totalled my car, and (obviously) damaged theirs.

Anyways, the people in front of me (that were okay) got out of their car and wanted to make sure I was alright.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Contrary to what most people on messageboards would have you believe, there are a lot of decent honest people in this country. I have been on both sides of that type of situation and behaved well when the victim and was treated very well when it was my fault.

Del2005

I was the nice person once.

Parked car in carpark, came back and after driving off noticed a note on windscreen. Some woman had hit my car and left her details. Wasn't much damage, dent in wing no paint broken, so let her off. Helped that the car wasn't worth much.

I think karma came back to help me when a person decided to go round a roundabout from the left lane, made sh!te of the whole left side of my car. Paid for the whole car as it wasn't worth replacing the parts, and the car is still going strong.

CPG

Edison Tight Pilot wrote: »

Contrary to what most people on messageboards would have you believe, there are a lot of decent honest people in this country. I have been on both sides of that type of situation and behaved well when the victim and was treated very well when it was my fault.

Yep , your right ! Allot of whining about other drivers goes on here, Let he who is without sin !! blah blah etc etc

vectra

Ha.
Not like my experience several years ago.
Came to a junction on the road.. Stopped at the STOP sign to ensure the way was clear to puul out. when sudenly.. WALLOP..!!
I didnt have to wait any longer.. A woman rear ended me quite forcefully and put me to the center of the road.. I got out anf went around to her to ask if she was ok and she said "Yes thanks, I am sorry for hitting your car "
I said as long as nobody was injured it was the main thing.
We got went round to see the damage and that is where things started to change.. my car was about 3 feet shorter and hers was a bit flatter at the front. I asked her if she was prepared to pay for the damage to my car or did she want it to go through insureance?
Her reply " Of course i will fix yours as long as you pay for the damage to mine" :eek:

I thought "Oh-Ohhh..!!!" Here we go..
Took me a long time to get that issue sorted :mad:

Del2005

vectra wrote: »

Ha.
Not like my experience several years ago.
Came to a junction on the road.. Stopped at the STOP sign to ensure the way was clear to puul out. when sudenly.. WALLOP..!!
I didnt have to wait any longer.. A woman rear ended me quite forcefully and put me to the center of the road.. I got out anf went around to her to ask if she was ok and she said "Yes thanks, I am sorry for hitting your car "
I said as long as nobody was injured it was the main thing.
We got went round to see the damage and that is where things started to change.. my car was about 3 feet shorter and hers was a bit flatter at the front. I asked her if she was prepared to pay for the damage to my car or did she want it to go through insureance?
Her reply " Of course i will fix yours as long as you pay for the damage to mine" :eek:

I thought "Oh-Ohhh..!!!" Here we go..
Took me a long time to get that issue sorted :mad:

Why? If they start taking the p!ss just send in to their insurance and let them sort it out. No point in being nice if the other person isn't.

JoeA3

Friend of mine came back to his car one day, note on the windscreen from some old dear who'd bumped him, she'd left her number.
Anyway, my buddy rings her up and asks her "Which dent is yours?" haha.. (he isn't too car proud )

vectra

Del2005 wrote: »

Why? If they start taking the p!ss just send in to their insurance and let them sort it out. No point in being nice if the other person isn't.

Thats what I did but when the insurance company contacted them they denied it :eek::mad:

BnA

IMO, the vast majority of people are nice.

I reversed into the front bumper of a car while parking on the street in Cork one day. As it happened, the owner was in it at the time. The car was only a few years old and you could clearly see a scratch on his bumper from my hitch. Yer man said it was nothing and he could fix it up himself. Refused point blank to even take my details in case he changed his mind.

My wife rear-ended a van one morning at a roundabout. I didn't see the van as I wasn't there but there was a fair whack of damage to her car. Again, the driver had no interest in claiming anything. He was more interested in calming my poor panicing wife down.

I done the same myself one morning. I was rear ended at a roundabout by a van. We both got out and he was very apologetic. There was a few scratches on my bumper but the car was 10 years old and worth eff-all and I told him to forget about it.

I'm a big believer in what goes around comes around. You'll have no luck for anything you get dishonestly. It'll always come back to bite you in the a55 one way or another.

Guy:Incognito

I'd have no problem with somebody accidentaly damaging my car as long as they offer to sort it. My patience really gets tried and makes me gradually less nice to others with every bad experience. My GF noticed that theres damage on her wheel arch where someone in a blue car nicely crumpled it by dragging there car along it, but didnt fancy stopping. ****.

[/misguide optimism/] Just in case any honest people here noticed damage to a friend/relatives car over the last couple of days that looks like it could have been caused by them hitting a silver Scenic, even if you dont want to shop them, kick them in the arse for me. [/misguided optimism/]

Del2005

vectra wrote: »

Thats what I did but when the insurance company contacted them they denied it :eek::mad:

Oh thats bad. Thats why you should always have a camera in the car. A picture says a thousand words!!

vectra

Del2005 wrote: »

Oh thats bad. Thats why you should always have a camera in the car. A picture says a thousand words!!

Agreed

E92

MCMLXXXIII wrote: »

...I rear-ended someone once. It was only at about 20mph

I don't think my g/f would appreciate me rear ending her at 20 mph:eek::D!

pyramuid man

E92 wrote: »

I don't think my g/f would appreciate me rear ending her at 20 mph:eek::D!

Post of the year. Lmao

MCMLXXXIII

E92 wrote: »

I don't think my g/f would appreciate me rear ending her at 20 mph:eek::D!

HA! She'd like it...she just needs to try it first