We were leaving Lidl this morning, driving slowly to the exit - I needed to turn left and the car coming in needed to turn to his right to drive past me. I stopped to let the incoming car pass me because a car parked on my left was jutting out and the other car really cut the corner. He bl**dy well kept on coming and scraped the side of my back bumper Then he kept on going and parked. By then Mr Osc was standing beside him tapping on the window. We know him, he lives literally across the street. Mr Osc says "Are you aware you hit our car?", he replies "Yes and you hit me too" to which Mr Osc says (he assures me he didn't use the f word) "Well that would be difficult seeing as we had stopped." He came to look and muttered about it being easy to sand it down and repaint, but he was told firmly that it was going to be done properly and he would be paying. He told Mr Osc that he would be back home inside the hour and to go and talk to him then.
So I went over to try the good cop approach (which Mr Osc has never quite grasped ) and told him I had phoned Ford service who said they would give me an estimate when I bring it in on Friday to repair my fog light cover that someone else broke Rather surprisingly, he said to tell him how much it will cost and he will pay for it, so fingers crossed I don't have to get the bad cop on to it! Sooooooo annoying though