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I just found this forum topic. Let me start with one that still makes me smile when I think about it to this day.
Many years ago I am driving during the start of a small snowstorm. No plows are out yet and the snow has started sticking to the road so it is slippery and I am driving appropriately. I come up to a red light with one new sedan stopped at the light in front of me. I stop and about twenty seconds later a car rams into my rear pushing me into the car in front of me.
I get out to look at the damage, a very young and obviously nervous young girl gets out of the car behind me and a well dressed middle aged woman gets out of the sedan.
Before I can even open my mouth the woman starts SCREAMING at me at full volume and she would have done a sailor proud. In between obscenities (and I am not making this up) the phrases, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" and "YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A LICENSE AGAIN WHEN I GET THROUGH WITH YOU!" are used.
I never had any real problems when I worked customer service because I find angry people rather amusing and considering this was completely misplaced anger I was having a grand time listening to her. I eventually couldn't stop myself and doubled over laughing out loud
. That shut her up with a final indignant, "YOU FIND THIS FUNNY!".
I pointed to the poor girl who is by this time cowering behind me and say, "I think you want to speak to the young lady who rear-ended me and pushed my car into yours?"
The woman's face turned beat red. She finally looked at her car, which I had already noted had nothing but a smudge from where my bumper hit hers. She mumbled something about there being no damage and quickly got in her car and took off.
I said to the girl, "My car has so many dents already I can't even tell which one is the new one so it's your lucky day, I don't want to file with insurance" and with that I went on my way with a story I have been telling since that day.
Many years ago I am driving during the start of a small snowstorm. No plows are out yet and the snow has started sticking to the road so it is slippery and I am driving appropriately. I come up to a red light with one new sedan stopped at the light in front of me. I stop and about twenty seconds later a car rams into my rear pushing me into the car in front of me.
I get out to look at the damage, a very young and obviously nervous young girl gets out of the car behind me and a well dressed middle aged woman gets out of the sedan.
Before I can even open my mouth the woman starts SCREAMING at me at full volume and she would have done a sailor proud. In between obscenities (and I am not making this up) the phrases, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" and "YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A LICENSE AGAIN WHEN I GET THROUGH WITH YOU!" are used.
I never had any real problems when I worked customer service because I find angry people rather amusing and considering this was completely misplaced anger I was having a grand time listening to her. I eventually couldn't stop myself and doubled over laughing out loud
. That shut her up with a final indignant, "YOU FIND THIS FUNNY!".I pointed to the poor girl who is by this time cowering behind me and say, "I think you want to speak to the young lady who rear-ended me and pushed my car into yours?"
The woman's face turned beat red. She finally looked at her car, which I had already noted had nothing but a smudge from where my bumper hit hers. She mumbled something about there being no damage and quickly got in her car and took off.
I said to the girl, "My car has so many dents already I can't even tell which one is the new one so it's your lucky day, I don't want to file with insurance" and with that I went on my way with a story I have been telling since that day.
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