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Old 26-01-2007, 08:25 PM   #1 (permalink)
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How would you tell your other half that you have jsut pranged thier car? Would you hide it and hope you can get it fixed? What would you do to soften them up for the Bad News!
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Old 26-01-2007, 08:48 PM   #2 (permalink)
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hehe, did this just happen to you by any chance?
My missus is just learning to drive so she doesn't have a car yet, but i'd prob just tell her if she did and get it sorted
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Old 27-01-2007, 09:50 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Just tell her.
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Old 27-01-2007, 01:06 PM   #4 (permalink)
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hehe, did this just happen to you by any chance?
My missus is just learning to drive so she doesn't have a car yet, but i'd prob just tell her if she did and get it sorted
It happened to me a long time ago. It was wet and rainy and I was reversing and hit the rear quarter panel on an unseen wooden post - I felt really bad and even after I plucked up the courage and confessed I think I was more miffed about it than she was! Garage sorted it out for me for just a few quid!

I'm going to make "Awkward situations" a regular feature and hopefully it will give us the chance for moral debates and taking the mickey out of each other! If you can think of any please post them up and we can all deliberate over them.
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Old 27-01-2007, 05:27 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Like how do you tell the missus that you've just written off the car you've not finished paying for yet?

1st of February 2004... I still have nightmares
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Old 27-01-2007, 07:31 PM   #6 (permalink)
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What happened then BLN - were you driving like a muppet?
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Old 27-01-2007, 09:55 PM   #7 (permalink)
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torque car people dont drive like muppets, but we do have a muppet wave!!!
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Old 30-01-2007, 07:26 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Twisty B-roads, on the way home on a rainy Saturday morning from dropping the missus off at work. Sharp left hand bend, and hidden on the other side was not one but two large floods. Hit the first one, lost complete control of the car. I mean, you might as well have severed all the cables, the brakes, the handbrake, steering into the skid, nothing worked. The wheels had no grip hence I had no control.

So the car slid from the first flood straight into the second, which pulled it sharply to the left. The front passenger side wing smacked a dry stone wall, slewing the car around where it slid sideways taking out a telegraph pole and sending a herd of cows running, mooing, for their lives as glass and plastic flew from the front of the car.

The entire front end was mashed, there was no left front wheel left, but i walked away with no injuries, whiplash, anything. It was a 1997 VW Polo. Man, are they well built.
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Old 30-01-2007, 08:31 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I bet you drive more cautiously now when it rains!
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Old 30-01-2007, 12:03 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I drive more cautiously now anyway. I don't streetrace anymore, and rarely use the outside lane on the motorway.
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