Seriously?

[graculus]

I work in a three storey building and we're on the middle floor (that's the first floor if you're in the UK and the second floor if you're in the US, for some reason...) and this morning I saw someone from upstairs reverse their car into a car driven by one of my team. Fortunately neither of them were injured, though it's caused far more damage to my worker's car since the one reversing into it was a Chelsea tractor, which came away pretty much unscathed.

It just so happened that I was crossing the car park at the time and saw the whole thing, with my worker being completely in the clear. My pointing this out to the person in question when they appeared to be back-pedalling ("oh, my reversing sensors didn't go off!" etc., to which my response was "you probably ought to get them checked out, then" was maybe not the most sympathetic) led to me getting a visit from her manager. Because I made her cry later, apparently, and she wasn't happy I didn't take her off somewhere like it was a big secret and she hadn't already blabbed about her inability to drive safely to everyone on the same floor as her.

*shakes head* What is it about some middle-aged women (and I feel I'm in a position to say this, being one of them!) and the apparent lack of a spinal column? One wonders how some of them even manage to get out of bed in the morning...

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[graculus.livejournal.com]

It's a novel concept. Also mirrors are your friend. Sadly many of the folks who drive 4x4s are rubbish drivers who think that being higher up makes them immune to everything, which it does in terms of the damage they cause and sustain - my poor lass has now had to fork out a substantial excess and it's had a major impact on her working week, while this muppet got a couple of scratches on her bumper and a good excuse to wail.

What I expect was the case was that she just put her foot down too bloody hard when she reversed so by the time they did go off, it was too late. Like I said to her, if they didn't go off at all she needs to get that checked out.