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  • #1

    No I Didn't!!!

    I'm putting this in road rage because it involved my car and one of those powered shopping buggies in the parking lot at my local grocery store.

    Me
    EP: Evil-Yet-Beautiful Princess
    OC: Other Customer
    HnR: Hit-and-Rider

    Sapphire Silk, the Evil-Yet-Beautiful Princess, and I stopped by our local grocer to pick up a few things. We parked in one of the handicapped spots with another car in the spot to the left of mine (separated by the striped box between handicapped spots). SS was tired so she stayed in the car to rest while the Princess and I finished shopping. When we came back out I saw one of the store employees (HnR) helping the people in the other car load their groceries and get ready to drive the powered buggy back into the store. It's a nice service the store offers and I didn't think anything of it as I started loading stuff in the back of my car. Anyway, the buggy was sitting between the two cars (my driver side, the other car's passenger side). My daughter suddenly looked very interested in something going on with the other car but I wasn't paying any attention. HnR backs the buggy out and starts heading across the lot to take it back into the store. The Evil Princess disappears around the driver's side of my car and then comes back a second later.

    EP: Mom. He hit our car.
    Me: What?
    EP: The guy with the buggy. He hit the car with it. Left a big scratch.

    At this point I'm thinking, parking lot dings and scratches, annoying but no big deal, really. I go look, and there's a good four inch long scratch by the wheelwell, right down to the metal. I look up and at the retreating bagger when the people in the other car (who hadn't left yet) roll down their window.

    OC: He hit your car with the basket of the buggy. We saw it.
    EP: He knows I saw him, Mom. He looked straight at me when it happened, and his eyes got all big, and then he yanked the thing around and kept going.

    At this point I'm getting annoyed. It's one thing to accidentally scratch a car, it's another to try to pretend it didn't happen. Those buggies are slow so he hasn't gotten more than a half dozen car lengths at this point, so I call out to him.

    Me: Hey!
    HnR: *looks back over his shoulder and then quickly turns around, trying to pretend he hadn't heard me*
    Me: *thinks "oh no he didn't" and taps her parade ground drill voice* HEY! You hit my car!
    HnR: No I didn't! *ducks his head down between his shoulders and keeps driving*
    Me: *looks at daughter in disbelief, then starts following after him* You hit my car with the buggy. Three people saw you do it.
    HnR: *refuses to look at me* No I didn't!

    At this point, if he'd just admitted it and apologized I would have let everything drop. My car is seven years old, and while this is the very first scratch anywhere on it, I'm under no illusion that it's a priceless collectible or anything. But denying it and trying to run away?

    Me: I'll meet you inside with your manager.

    I find the manager, who is a very nice person with whom I've interacted before, and explain very reasonably what just happened. I'm not upset, I'm not yelling or cursing or anything, it's just an inconvenience. I just wanted to let them know that there was a significant scratch in my car caused by one of their employees and he's trying to tell me he didn't do it despite three people seeing him do it. The manager apologizes and offers to file an incident report and I'm about to decline it when HnR comes running in.

    HnR: I didn't do it! It wasn't on purpose!
    Me: Dude. Relax. I'm not after your job or anything.
    HnR: No! I didn't do it on purpose!
    Me: Man, I get that it was an accident. Just don't lie to me about scratching my car. My daughter saw you do it. Just apologize for it.
    HnR: *getting worked up so his face is turning red* I didn't do it on purpose!
    Me: *looking at the manager, who is now trying to calm HnR down* Yeah, I'd like to go ahead and file that incident report.

    I swear, if he'd just apologized, I'd have been done and left it at that. When corporate calls to offer me compensation I'll probably say "thank you but no thank you", but I had to leave him sweating.

    I get back out to the car after all this and SS wakes up and and wants to know what happened.
    Sorry, my cow died so I don't need your bull
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  • #2
    Wow... almost this exact scenario happened to me and a friend of mine a couple of years ago. We were driving past the front of a local Orange Depot. One of their employees was pushing one of those kiddie-carts they have which are basically tricked-out shopping carts that look like little trucks for the youngin's to enjoy. He was returning it to the store and was not quite at the crosswalk that my friend was driving over. Otherwise, my friend would have stopped to let him go.

    Well, either the Orange Depot kid's sense of depth perception was off or he just decided to be a frigging idiot, because he decides to slam the cart into the side of my friend's pickup truck.

    He thought that's what happened and as I was sitting in the passenger seat, I had a perfect view of the whole incident. I was actually in shock that someone would be so dumb.

    "Did he just hit my truck?"
    "Buh... muh... what's a truck? YEAH - HE DID."
    "Be right back."

    Well he stopped his pickup right there and took off after the kid, who was pretty much running for his life to get back into the store. My friend was calling after him "Hey! Hey cart bitch! STOP RUNNING LIKE A PUSSY!"

    As I was still sitting in the truck, that was the last think I heard as he chased the kid into the store. I had stayed behind so some opportunistic moron wouldn't try to take his truck for a joyride or something.

    You also have to picture what my friend looks like - he's a biker: long greying brown hair, goatee, covered with tattoos, wearing a Motorhead t-shirt.

    I don't blame the kid for running in terror. The guy scared the hell out of me the first time I met him, too, but he's since become one of my best friends that I trust with my life.

    Anyway, he comes back a few minutes later. He finally catches the kid. Idiot manager has no clue what's going on. Explanation is made. Information traded. We leave.

    Find out a few days later that the kid was suspended for two weeks without pay or benefits. Orange Depot paid the insurance claim to have the side panel re-painted. Hopefully the kid learned a lesson not to fuck with another man's vehicle.

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    • #3
      At my old mall we got called for a lady whose car was scratched by another customer. Lady was loading her groceries into her car. Old customer walks past to her car next space over. Old customer loads her bag then gives the cart a shove 'boom!' right into the side of Lady's car. Lady is trying to tell old customer 'excuse me, you just hit my car!' and old customer is yelling back that it was the CART that hit her car, so it's not her fault! Old customer was gone by the time we got there, but Lady had the license plate and we had camera footage and so made a report with the police. Lady wasn't so much upset about the dent as the fact that the old customer wouldn't take responsibility for it!
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      • #4
        Quoth LillFilly View Post
        ...and old customer is yelling back that it was the CART that hit her car, so it's not her fault!
        So, according to this person, the same would apply if a car she was driving hit somebody? After all, the CAR hit them -- not her! She's totally innocent!
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        • #5
          Haddock: OMG That's hilarious!

          And the old lady: oh good lord. If I hit her with my cane, then it's not me whapping her upside the head, it's the cane's fault, right? If someone shoots her, it's the bullet killing her, not the person firing the gun. I can only hope someone hits her with a clue-by-four.
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          • #6
            Quoth EvilEmpryss View Post
            And the old lady: oh good lord. If I hit her with my cane, then it's not me whapping her upside the head, it's the cane's fault, right? If someone shoots her, it's the bullet killing her, not the person firing the gun. I can only hope someone hits her with a clue-by-four.
            It wouldn't be someone hitting her, it would be the clue-by-four!
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            • #7
              If it were me, all bets would've been off the minute dude lied, and if it were my new car, you bet the store would be paying for repainting it. My previous cars... well, I might not have insisted on the store covering repairs, but I definitely would've talked to a manager about the dude lying about the incident.
              Supporting the idiots charged with protecting your personal information.

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              • #8
                Quoth EvilEmpryss View Post
                HnR: No I didn't! *ducks his head down between his shoulders and keeps driving*

                HnR: *refuses to look at me* No I didn't!

                HnR: I didn't do it!
                JULES: Yes you did, Brett! Yes you did!

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                • #9
                  Quoth Monterey Jack View Post
                  JULES: Yes you did, Brett! Yes you did!
                  Brett: "I... what?"
                  PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
                    Brett: "I... what?"
                    What? What's no country I ever heard of! They speak English in What?!

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Monterey Jack View Post
                      What? What's no country I ever heard of! They speak English in What?!
                      "Wh-wh-what--?"
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                      • #12
                        Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
                        "Wh-wh-what--?"
                        Better sort out Who, first...
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                        • #13
                          Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
                          "Wh-wh-what--?"
                          Say "what" again. I dare ya! I double dare ya!

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                          • #14
                            Quoth LillFilly View Post
                            At my old mall we got called for a lady whose car was scratched by another customer. Lady was loading her groceries into her car. Old customer walks past to her car next space over. Old customer loads her bag then gives the cart a shove 'boom!' right into the side of Lady's car. Lady is trying to tell old customer 'excuse me, you just hit my car!' and old customer is yelling back that it was the CART that hit her car, so it's not her fault! Old customer was gone by the time we got there, but Lady had the license plate and we had camera footage and so made a report with the police. Lady wasn't so much upset about the dent as the fact that the old customer wouldn't take responsibility for it!
                            Old Lady was probably trying to claim it would fall under the "Mall Management is not responsible for loose carts" clause or something like that. While (purposefully) not understanding that clause is only for the location coverage and doesn't exempt direct actions. (Wind blowing carts around? Act of Thor; Cart thrown into the side of your car because someone didn't want to push it 2 feet to the corral? Act of that Lazy Idiot. No matter what, it's not the store's fault)

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                            • #15
                              At one of the stores I worked at, any incident resulting in property damage or injuries while an employee was operating equipment always came with a drug test. I wonder if that was why Mr HnR was so nervous.
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