He gets out and I just lost it, I said, "So what makes you think you can just get in my lane when I'm already there???" He apologizes profusely for about a minute telling me don't worry we'll come to a "compromise". I laughed. Then I called the police. He went on and on for 10 minutes about how he was sorry and he never had anything like this happen and can't we compromise? Finally I was like listen buddy, the extent of my compromise is I'm willing to let you decide if you want to pay out of pocket or have your insurance cover it AFTER we file a police report. He says, no, I don't want the cops. I said, well, then you shouldn't have hit me! And I took a picture of him, his license plate number, the damage on both our cars and I got in my car and refused to talk to him.
Cop shows up, does his whole job, checks it all out...while he's writing his report, the guy (and now his wife who has joined him) comes up to me and says you know you hit me trying to make a right hand turn. I just laughed and pointed out that I had left my car running, with proof in the form of the GPS system, showing I was turning left. Also the damage wasn't really possible any other way - the corner of his left bumper/above his left front wheel...and the entire right sige of my car. If I turned into him, it would have been the other way around.
So officer is citing him for failure to remain in his lane. But now I have to jump through Geico's hoops to get it all fixed. I'm working from home for the rest of the day now!! And I think I'm going to have my body shop take a look at it to get an estimate before the Geico adjuster even sees it.
It's just not been a good year for me so far. But at least I'm okay (or am I...ooh my neck
) and the car is driveable, it's just a hassle. But add it to everything else and geez...when is this going to be over??
