Sugar Beats
01-04-2009, 05:56 PM
& you had to pay for. (monetarily speaking)
So far my oldest takes the cake. I guess it isn't so bad, but at the time...
A couple yrs. ago, right after I had my last baby, I took my oldest daughter w/ me to do a big stock-up kind of shopping @ Costco.
W/ a newborn @ home, I didn't want to be running out alot, so we had 2 carts full of items.
On the way out to the car, she was pushing 1 cart & I the other. I'm walking slow and keep turning around making sure she is alright and following me. I know the cart is heavy, they both are, as they are overflowing w/ stuff. So as we come close to our car, we have to proceed through a row and I reach the back of ours, pop the trunk and look up just in time to see her and her cart coming at the car next to us, out of control!
I start to scream, "Oh no!" as I watch in horror as she clear bashes the car next to us and takes the side mirror clear off! I'm just like, "Great! Just Great!" It was very upsetting. She was around 11 at the time. I felt awful, both for her and the damage that was just inflicted on this new little blue number that had the misfortune of being parked next to us. But I was trying to keep my cool. I half expected the people to come out and see the damage, but they didn't.
We had just paid a huge doctor's bill, cash, even w/ insurance and I was just like, how much is this going to cost?
So we left a note w/ our name and # and sure enough received a call.
The man was very nice. It was an older gentelmen and he was very appreciative that we left our info at all. The new mirror (I knew it would be fairly costly w/ all the hardware junk that's wired in there) cost around $600.00.
So we took his quote, called the repair place, confirmed the cost and paid the bill. Oh well, there goes another $600.00 for nothing except a day out shopping! :skep:
Whatcha gonna do?
I was proud of myself for not losing my cool and screaming at her and making her feel bad; boy ~ if that had been me & my dad! LOOK OUT! He would have ripped my head off, then I never would've heard the end of it.
Anyone else? Got any good ones...
So far my oldest takes the cake. I guess it isn't so bad, but at the time...
A couple yrs. ago, right after I had my last baby, I took my oldest daughter w/ me to do a big stock-up kind of shopping @ Costco.
W/ a newborn @ home, I didn't want to be running out alot, so we had 2 carts full of items.
On the way out to the car, she was pushing 1 cart & I the other. I'm walking slow and keep turning around making sure she is alright and following me. I know the cart is heavy, they both are, as they are overflowing w/ stuff. So as we come close to our car, we have to proceed through a row and I reach the back of ours, pop the trunk and look up just in time to see her and her cart coming at the car next to us, out of control!
I start to scream, "Oh no!" as I watch in horror as she clear bashes the car next to us and takes the side mirror clear off! I'm just like, "Great! Just Great!" It was very upsetting. She was around 11 at the time. I felt awful, both for her and the damage that was just inflicted on this new little blue number that had the misfortune of being parked next to us. But I was trying to keep my cool. I half expected the people to come out and see the damage, but they didn't.
We had just paid a huge doctor's bill, cash, even w/ insurance and I was just like, how much is this going to cost?
So we left a note w/ our name and # and sure enough received a call.
The man was very nice. It was an older gentelmen and he was very appreciative that we left our info at all. The new mirror (I knew it would be fairly costly w/ all the hardware junk that's wired in there) cost around $600.00.
So we took his quote, called the repair place, confirmed the cost and paid the bill. Oh well, there goes another $600.00 for nothing except a day out shopping! :skep:
Whatcha gonna do?
I was proud of myself for not losing my cool and screaming at her and making her feel bad; boy ~ if that had been me & my dad! LOOK OUT! He would have ripped my head off, then I never would've heard the end of it.
Anyone else? Got any good ones...