so last weekend my wife got in an accident while backing out of a parking space. normally you’d think (and insurance companies think) she hit him, her fault, end of story. not necessarily.
see, my wife was backing out of her spot and this asshat decides to go around her. why? who knows? typical impatient LA driver? she hits the side of his car. (silver BMW vs silver BMW. in LA? what are the odds?) so the guy gets out of the car and is nice enough, but REEKS of alcohol. AND he is wearing the white iPod earbuds. (wtf, while driving? probably for his iPhone, but not sure having them in both ears is legal in CA) not acting drunk, but certainly hungover. they exchange info, my wife takes pictures of the whole scene. they try to get the police to come out and take a report. police won’t as apparently the donuts were hot and fresh.
so we call in to the insurance on Monday. give them all the info, send them the pics, all that stuff. they figure it’s probably a 30-70 split as to fault and as long as we’re under 50% at fault our rates don’t go up.
today they call and give us an update. they have the other driver’s statement and he claims that my wife whipped out of the space so quickly he couldn’t see her coming and had no time to stop or react.
hey, dumbass. you were probably too hungover to remember, but those pictures? the ones that show you clearly on the left side of the road, trying to pass? the ones showing only my wife’s front tire left in the parking space? yeah, didn’t think so.
even the insurance agent said he doesn’t see an issue since the pictures clearly show that the other driver’s lying.
Stupid hungover earbudwearing lying asshat driver.
and thank G-d for pictures.
whoohoo for taking pics and proving he was lying!
Comment by emmaelizabeth — 21 February 2009 @ 17:42