"Umm... Daddy, I have a little problem."
That's what my 17 yr old daughter said. A phone call. Not a text. This could be bad.
"I sort of backed up into this car. A Bentley."
Nice. It was in front of the local frozen yogurt store not far from home. Nothing to get excited about. No one's hurt. And my wife's car is intact.
"Don't worry. Just get his licence and take a picture of the place where you hit him," I said. "Take a few pictures."
"Well, the guy's sort of losing his shit," she said.
I could hear her voice start to crack.
"I'll be right there. Tell him I'm coming and not to move," I said.
I got there in less than 5 minutes. A nice black Continental GT parked behind my wife's car. I look at the owner and it's a guy from my high school. A real jerkoff then. And now.
I look at his car and it's untouched, except for a ding on one side of the grill. Not a scratch amywhere else.
"She backed up into me," he said.
"So, you never wrecked a car or two when you were 17?" I asked. He looked at me, knowing full well I was right there in the back seat when he glanced off two parked cars in his Dad's Oldsmobile. And then took off, like a scared rabbit.
As it turns out my daughter bumped into him. Stopped. Then waited for him to show up so she could tell him what she did. Then he freaked out telling her she should never get in a car again! She was a little shook up.
She a chip off the old block. She drove when she was 13. Got her license on a 5 speed car. Drives my Mustang and my big Escalade. Wants to drive the cat. She's a careful and confident driver. But she made a mistake. Hard to see a low slung car behind you when you're right on him. Anyhow, she learned a lesson.
I, on the other hand, can't figure out how it was even possible for her big fat rear bumper to touch the grill and crack it, without touching any other part of the front. The moulding and bodywork around the grille extend far beyond it.
But she says she felt a bump. So I guess she hit him. But she told me that he broke off a piece of the grille with his hands. I took some pics. And when I looked at them later, there was rust all around the cracked part of the grill. Nowhere else. Hmmmm. Anyhow. No fault insurance.
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