UUUGGGGG! I have to pay $425 for another person's car that I hit!

[Maraya1969]

I am so disgusted right now. I guess I should be happy that that no one was hurt but all I did was scratch this guy's truck with my rear view mirror and the cheapest I can get away with is $425.

Trying to get somewhere 5 minutes faster in bad traffic and it costs me $425.

Oh well. I guess there are worse things that can happen. But right now this one feels pretty damn bad. And I am most pissed off at myself.





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[soleft]

1. I accidently threw out 120 dollars worth of metro cards

I know how you feel.

[Maraya1969]

4. Metro as in subway?

[soleft]

9. Yeah.

I order them from work so I pay for them with pretaxed dollars. They come once a month in an envelope, and this month they slipped out of the envelope and got mixed up on my desk with my old, used cards. I took the cards to the subway to check if anything was left on them, and when several of them said - Express Bus pass - 0 remaining, I thought they were expired cards and threw them away. Turns out they said zero because they hadn't been activated yet.

When I went to get my metrocard for the week and saw that my envelope was empty - I was severely bummed.

And I thought I was being so tidy by finally throwing the old cards away.

[Katherine Brengle]

8. OUCH!

I once threw away ONE metro card with much much less value and I wanted to die for the rest of the day...

And I only occasionally visit NYC lol, I don't even live there...

[1gobluedem]

2. I feel for you

I had to shell out almost $500 to fix my car when I hit my porch trying to avoid icy branches hanging over the driveway. My own stupid fault but that doesn't lessen the sting.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. When mine got hit

on election day 2004, as I was turning into my polling site, I had to pay for it myself. :grr:

I still voted, though. Oh, HELL, yeah.

[Maraya1969]

5. Why did you have to pay for it? Did the other person run off?

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Nope

He convinced his insurance company that I was at fault. Said I was driving on the shoulder (I wasn't), then made a left turn in front of him without signaling (I didn't).

I argued that even if that were true, it was still illegal for him to pass me on a two-lane road with a double-yellow line. They didn't see it that way.

[AlCzervik]

6. don't feel too bad.

my husband and i were on vacation, i hate when he drives my car btw, i'm almost always assuming the crash position, anyhow we were right near Pepperdine university and he's not watching the road and a light was coming up, i see it's turning yellow, the car is not slowing down, i say "Michael----Michael---Michael RED LIGHT- RED LIGHT!"" well Mikey finally looks and bam, front end totally smashed up, drivable but ruined, oh lordy i was pissed but i just shut it, te guy he hit had no damage and he took off. Vacation ends and i take my car to the body shop, the bill was $3200. We payed it out of pocket, about a year later we were coming hom again from vacation and he hit another car, same story but less damage, only $1100 this time. He is no longer allowed to drove any vehicle other than his own car.

[bullwinkle428]

10. I NUDGED the back bumper of a Ford Explorer with my little Honda

about a year ago, and ended up doing over $500 in damage to it! Oh BTW, not a scratch on the front bumper of my Accord! Just paid out of pocket so my insurance co. wouldn't have an excuse to raise my premium...