DrDivad
20-04-2005, 08:04 PM
OK people will have had worse days, but this day of mine sure did suck, and it has some interesting twists. Read on!
So, I had an exam for uni today, ENGL1001 Arthurian Literature, at 2pm. No sweat. However our phone has been busted for more than a week and the net down for just under a week, so I had no way of studying. Admittedly I hadn't attended a few of the lectures so I also had no idea what was going down.
So I spend Tuesday reviewing cliffsnotes (they rock) and I figure, swoit, I'm in business. Wake up this morning feeling total cactus! Mega bad migraine, slight dizziness and some weird perceptual phenomenae. Nice of the police to point out this last symptom to me.
I was driving at what felt like at or slightly above the 50 kph speedlimit, so I thought at most 55-60. Suddenly flashing lights in my face and police cops. They claim I was doing 78! I'm all, I beleive you since I wouldn't think the cops would just make shit up, but I checked the screen, bingo 78. So I'm all craaaaaaaap. So $208 later and me feelign weird going, "Hrrmm, since my perception is obviously screwed up, I better get to the doctor later"
So I head to my house at Prospect, intending to just relax a bit and head to the doctor later, or if I felt better catch the bus to uni to actually do my exam. Anyways on the way, right near my house, I'm turning right off of the highway and I have right of way, and those on the street I'm turning into have to give way. He fails to see me and T-Bones me right in the drivers side rear quarter!
He gets out, all panicky says he's really sorry and admits fault (mental note: get him to actually sign a statement, maybe tomorrow) and says get a quote and let him know.
But the catch is, he doesn't have any insurance, which I'm not sure if that means "None at all" or just not comprehensive, in which case his 3rd party will sort it out. For the record, I have 3rd party for just this reason, an hefty excess is a lot cheaper than the $2k ish it'll probably cost for the panel beating, respray and chassis straightening!
Anyways, so I'm going to try and make it as easy for the guy as possible, 1) because I don't want to be a dick, and 2) to give him the best possible chance of being able to afford it. Now essentially i'd be happy to have the thing mechanically sound, roughly straight and I don't care what colour it is, as long as it's rust proof. But asking smash repairer to just get $10 K-Mart paint kinda doesn't work. Hell it's how I'D fix it :D. Better than a grand or so to get the spray gun out! Not to mention they'll never match that particular shade of crusty old off white anyway!
One other option is to use Andrews complete vortex which he is palming off to me anyway and putting the guts of my car in that baby, getting the rust fixed up and might work out cheaper and get the victim to pay for that instead. I have some options, but definately, the easier it is on the other guy the better my chances are of getting it done, and him not going "I aint got that dollars"
Also it's rather hard getting a quote without going through insurance, buggers just aren't interested. So you need to find some little guy that will do any job, but they are hard to find, the one I approached was closed for today, said he'd be back tomorrow though.
Seems if you're a big company and can work on 10-15 cars at a time you want nice straight forward insurance jobs cos you just pump 'em through. But if you're the small <5 car place it's the same effort to do a lazy insurance job as a proper private job so they are more willing to take it on.
What makes it worse is I'd only just got the car back on the road after 5 months and I'd put in a new import engine! Also the car was out of rego by a week, so to get me a bit of an alibi I drove it a short distance to get a rego inspection done, which it failed due to a screwed tire, and one of the lights above the number plate. Both mega easy to fix and I'm surprised.
So one of my mates dad is a Smash Repairer, so hopefully he might be able to sort us out with a quote and a decent price.
What a goddamn pants day!
So, I had an exam for uni today, ENGL1001 Arthurian Literature, at 2pm. No sweat. However our phone has been busted for more than a week and the net down for just under a week, so I had no way of studying. Admittedly I hadn't attended a few of the lectures so I also had no idea what was going down.
So I spend Tuesday reviewing cliffsnotes (they rock) and I figure, swoit, I'm in business. Wake up this morning feeling total cactus! Mega bad migraine, slight dizziness and some weird perceptual phenomenae. Nice of the police to point out this last symptom to me.
I was driving at what felt like at or slightly above the 50 kph speedlimit, so I thought at most 55-60. Suddenly flashing lights in my face and police cops. They claim I was doing 78! I'm all, I beleive you since I wouldn't think the cops would just make shit up, but I checked the screen, bingo 78. So I'm all craaaaaaaap. So $208 later and me feelign weird going, "Hrrmm, since my perception is obviously screwed up, I better get to the doctor later"
So I head to my house at Prospect, intending to just relax a bit and head to the doctor later, or if I felt better catch the bus to uni to actually do my exam. Anyways on the way, right near my house, I'm turning right off of the highway and I have right of way, and those on the street I'm turning into have to give way. He fails to see me and T-Bones me right in the drivers side rear quarter!
He gets out, all panicky says he's really sorry and admits fault (mental note: get him to actually sign a statement, maybe tomorrow) and says get a quote and let him know.
But the catch is, he doesn't have any insurance, which I'm not sure if that means "None at all" or just not comprehensive, in which case his 3rd party will sort it out. For the record, I have 3rd party for just this reason, an hefty excess is a lot cheaper than the $2k ish it'll probably cost for the panel beating, respray and chassis straightening!
Anyways, so I'm going to try and make it as easy for the guy as possible, 1) because I don't want to be a dick, and 2) to give him the best possible chance of being able to afford it. Now essentially i'd be happy to have the thing mechanically sound, roughly straight and I don't care what colour it is, as long as it's rust proof. But asking smash repairer to just get $10 K-Mart paint kinda doesn't work. Hell it's how I'D fix it :D. Better than a grand or so to get the spray gun out! Not to mention they'll never match that particular shade of crusty old off white anyway!
One other option is to use Andrews complete vortex which he is palming off to me anyway and putting the guts of my car in that baby, getting the rust fixed up and might work out cheaper and get the victim to pay for that instead. I have some options, but definately, the easier it is on the other guy the better my chances are of getting it done, and him not going "I aint got that dollars"
Also it's rather hard getting a quote without going through insurance, buggers just aren't interested. So you need to find some little guy that will do any job, but they are hard to find, the one I approached was closed for today, said he'd be back tomorrow though.
Seems if you're a big company and can work on 10-15 cars at a time you want nice straight forward insurance jobs cos you just pump 'em through. But if you're the small <5 car place it's the same effort to do a lazy insurance job as a proper private job so they are more willing to take it on.
What makes it worse is I'd only just got the car back on the road after 5 months and I'd put in a new import engine! Also the car was out of rego by a week, so to get me a bit of an alibi I drove it a short distance to get a rego inspection done, which it failed due to a screwed tire, and one of the lights above the number plate. Both mega easy to fix and I'm surprised.
So one of my mates dad is a Smash Repairer, so hopefully he might be able to sort us out with a quote and a decent price.
What a goddamn pants day!