Took the buds to the beach this AM for their weekend off-leash fun time at Mavericks. When I go to Mavericks, I never park in the Maverick’s parking lot because the cars park SO close together and people always have surfboards, fishing gear, kayaks, etc and I have seen enough people smack their stuff into the cars next to them that I stay far away from that lot. Even when I had my old Jeep.
So I always park in a different lot that most people never used. It’s a small side street with a small dirt lot. But then someone put in a poo bag station and trash cans so more people started parking there. Then the kayakers started parking there when the Kayak Club down the street gets too crowded. But I go early enough that is never, ever too full and everyone that parks there always leaves plenty of room in between each other. Safe from door dings and other stuff. Yeah…
Huskies and I were walking back to the car after a fun beach adventure and I hear this loud CRASH. I instantly had this thought “Someone just crashed into my car.” But then I thought that’s silly, why would I think that. And the buds met 2 more dogs to play with for a few minutes and then Angelus went into the water to cool off and then we started back to the parking lot. I see a kayaker setting up his kayak RIGHT behind my car. Sigh. You need to move pal, need to get the huskies in the back. He looks up as I am walking towards him/my car and asks “Oh, is this your car?” Yep I reply. He then says “I’m so sorry.” Umm…that can’t be good. He then says he left all of his insurance info on my window and then points to my passenger side rear panel. I go around and see the huge dent and cracked paint now in my wonderfully pretty car. “DUDE” I say. (Yes…I did say that.) He instantly starts apologizing profusely.
Grrr
I went to get the info he left on my window and make sure I have everything. I take a picture of his drivers license and plate number. And the giant gash. My first, instant internal reaction was of highly annoyed pissed-off-ness. If you aren’t strong enough to control your giant kayak, don’t park next to other cars. Come on. He was a little tiny asian guy. Pretty sure the kayak outweighed him significantly. Grrr.
But it was obviously an accident. And he obviously felt bad. Yelling at him wasn’t going to undent my car. So I took his info and said “It was an accident.” He said your car looks really nice and new. Yeah…it did. Double-grrr. But at the same time, I am grateful he was an honest person. He could have easily taken off after it happened since I wasn’t around. There was no one else in the parking lot. So there is that.
I called my insurance when I got home and have an appointment with the adjuster on Tuesday. They said Geico (his insurer) might not cover it since it wasn’t part of his car that did the damage. In which case, they have to go through his homeowners insurance. And if he doesn’t have that, they go after him. Yeesh. Hopefully it all gets sorted out and fixed quickly before I have a chance to get annoyed about it again. Although, since he has Geico insurance, and I own Berkshire Hathaway stock, isn’t that like I am taking the money away from me a shareholder and giving it back to me as a claimant? Hmm….
