Another vehiculat incident.....

Yep. My luck with cars is just wonderful.

Some of you might recall a few months ago when my blazer suffered a dead fuel pump. After towing expenditures, with money being tight at the moment, we decided to shelve the project of having it fixed until we had some extra cash. In the meantime, I've been using my wife's trusty old '96 Toyota Corolla for work and daily running around.

Its an old car, but its a good one.

...or....it was.

Yesterday, I pulled into the office, which has a wide enough driveway that people who are picking up or dropping off equipment usually just pull over to the right and run inside. This is exactly what I was going to do.

I pulled into the driveway, parked, opened my door, remembered something I needed in the back seat, and when I turned to get it, I heard the loudest crunching sound ever. I turned back to see the drivers door which I had just opened nearly get torn off the hinge by someone moving far faster than safe 'driveway' speeds.

Turns out he's the lawyer that shares the office complex with our company, and he customized his lexus with the door to my toyota. Fun.

He maintains that I opened the door right in front of him, which I was willing to admit at first, but the more I thought about it, I had that door OPEN, then turned back to get what I needed. I think he made the turn into the driveway far too fast and either didn't see the door or was distracted. At any rate, there's no way to prove that I just didn't open the door without looking first. I swear that thing WAS open, because I had to TURN to see the door go bye-bye, which wouldn't have been necessary if I was in the process of opening it and getting out....I'd have been looking directly AT it. Anyway, can't prove it, and while my insurance will cover damages to his car, it won't cover mine, since its 14 years old and we pulled the collision insurance from it about a year ago to save some money.

The killer is, all the women in the office where I work tell me how fast he always moves through there, and while we exchanged information, he told me that was the SECOND time this exact same thing has happened to him.

So now I need to come up with a way to pay the repair cost out of pocket, which will definitely be more expensive than the friggin fuel pump which I couldn't afford in the first place.

/whiny rant.

Oh, and in b4 HV and 'lucky charm' .....it wasn't on me, its still in the blazer which is laid up.

Even if it was considered his fault, you would still be screwed. No insurance company is going to pay to fix a 1996 Corolla. They would call it scrap and probably give you far less than what it would take to replace it. Why not just put the fuel pump repair on a credit card? That or tear the other door off of the Corolla to make it look like you meant to have it that way.

skin hat him...

In that case

Man, that blows chunks.

Uhm, your insurance shouldn't be paying jack squat. He hit a parked car. Your insurance should go to bat for you to help you recoup the necessary costs to repair your car.

That is true, but... He is a lawyer.

in after 'in b4 lucky charm'.

LOL need another lucky charm there, Reb?

Junkyard.

The only logical thing to do now is buy the gull wing doors you have always wanted and maybe some spinners.