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cracnup · 02-20-2008, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kannibul

I know it's a little too late for this - but, you don't have to go where the insurance companies send you!

In fact, "requiring" is illegal (steering)

I had mentioned the custom body work and complained about the previous experience to them a few times... They were argumentative and gave me the run around, so I finally said screw it. I'll just wait and take care of it myself.

I pay decent prices with progressive, but I must admit: I have NOT been happy with their service, and the way they have handled my claims.

Kent · 02-20-2008, 11:13 PM

OK, so do we vote on the best story by page 10 or what?

There seems to be some good ones, thanks for making me feel like I am not alone on this one!

Kent

robinsre · 02-20-2008, 11:17 PM

I've been relatively lucky. Everything my wife has wrecked she has paid for herself.

But let's see...what's she done.

2004 - Fender bender, driving too fast while talking on cell phone

2004 - Fender bender #2, driving too fast while talking on cell phone.

2005 - Totals Neon, driving too fast in rain while talking on cell phone.

2005 - Breaks mirror off of new Sentra pulling into garage while talking on cell phone.

2006 - Talking on cell phone, rounds corner too fast destroys right two rims and tires.

Hmmmm....

Call me crazy but I think I see a correlation.

Lucky for me she won't read this, she's too busy talking on the cell phone to her mom.

**TacoMalo** · 02-20-2008, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by robinsre

I've been relatively lucky. Everything my wife has wrecked she has paid for herself.

But let's see...what's she done.

2004 - Fender bender, driving too fast while talking on cell phone

2004 - Fender bender #2, driving too fast while talking on cell phone.

2005 - Totals Neon, driving too fast in rain while talking on cell phone.

2005 - Breaks mirror off of new Sentra pulling into garage while talking on cell phone.

2006 - Talking on cell phone, rounds corner too fast destroys right two rims and tires.

Hmmmm....

Call me crazy but I think I see a correlation.

Lucky for me she won't read this, she's too busy talking on the cell phone to her mom.

Wow, I guess my wife is the exact opposite I ask her for her cell phone and she's like "I don't know where it is the battery died and I forgot to recharge it" haha...

robinsre · 02-20-2008, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TacoMalo

Wow, I guess my wife is the exact opposite I ask her for her cell phone and she's like "I don't know where it is the battery died and I forgot to recharge it" haha...

Thats the fun part.

If it's 10:30 pm, she's an hour late home from her classes, and nowhere to be found you can't get her to answer her cell phone to save the world.

mity2 · 02-21-2008, 12:14 AM

my GF drove my then new 00 SHO into a flower pot.... Day I picked the car up from the dealer.

Then few years later, She was trying to learn how to drive 5 speed.
Drove the car in to side of my garage(no sever damage, luckly).

goodformeto · 02-21-2008, 04:58 AM

This one's not the worst, but it is the best reading because she and her sister argue the details and it gets better every time.

My wife and her sister were heading down to LA and so my wife drives her new Grand Prix. On the way down, and loving the way her car handles on the freeway she notices the new billboard campaign for the CA D.O.T.

"Slow down for the cone zones"

They still argue over how many cones she hit.

ParagonUSMC · 02-21-2008, 06:35 AM

Mine isn't so great, but I still give my wife a hard time about it. I was changing my stock Nissan Xterra bumper out to something much more beefy. Well, my wife backs across the whole friggin yard, manages to clip the corner of my stock bumper, and if flips up (think of stepping on the end of a rake) and smacks her passenger side door. Scared the hell out of her and put a little dent in the car. The worst part about it is what happened when she caught me laughing about it, even though I tried to hide under my truck.

ArmyGuy45 · 02-21-2008, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ParagonUSMC

Mine isn't so great, but I still give my wife a hard time about it. I was changing my stock Nissan Xterra bumper out to something much more beefy. Well, my wife backs across the whole friggin yard, manages to clip the corner of my stock bumper, and if flips up (think of stepping on the end of a rake) and smacks her passenger side door. Scared the hell out of her and put a little dent in the car. The worst part about it is what happened when she caught me laughing about it, even though I tried to hide under my truck.

man.. i cant wait to be married...

never been married but i did have an ex that thought that "chaning" the oil was switching brand names

bham shooter · 02-21-2008, 08:21 AM

Reading all of these reminded me of one more, the dreaded running over the curb. And also made me a little mad that my wife is constantly on the phone.

Back in college, the wife (girlfriend/fiancee at the time. Can't remember which) and I are going to get a haircut before a presentation at school for the accounting majors. She goes about a half hour before I do, and then I drive over there to get mine clipped. As we are both leaving, she goes ahead of me. We were going to stop by our place and get into one vehicle to go up to campus. She makes a hard right turn out of the parking lot and catches her passenger rear tire on the curb and flattens it. So now I have to get out and put her spare on it so we can take it to the shop to get it repaired and put back on the rim. It actually just tore it off the rim and didn't do any actual damage to the tire or rim. I guess she was a little lucky on that one.

And not to hijack the thread, but the woman on the cell phone while driving all needs to stop. My wife is so bad with it that I make certain to tell her to stay off of it if it has been raining or if the roads might by icy. If not, she would just hop in the car, back out, pull out of the driveway and call her mom. And when I'm on my way home from somewhere and buzz the house to let her know that I'm on my way, she wants to talk to me the whole way home. I mean, I'm going to be there in 10-15 minutes, and don't really want a phone to my ear the whole time. She gets all upset when I'm trying to get off the phone, but I just don't talk on it while driving.

And I love how it is perfectly acceptable for her not to answer the phone, but when I don't, it is WW3. Case in point. I am driving home from a football game last fall, and the interstate between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham is bumper-to-bumper for the whole 50 miles. She must have called a half a dozen times. I finally handed it to my dad and told him to answer it. She was so mad that I wouldn't talk to her. But I had called her when I was walking out of the stadium and told her that we were about to get on the road, and that it would be a while. So she waited 20 minutes, and just wanted to see where we were. Hello? We're on the damn interstate with 50,000 other people.

But two weeks after that, she rode out of town with a friend, with the friend being the driver, and was supposed to be home at 9:30. Naturally when it gets to be 10:00 and I haven't even gotten a call that they are on the way back home yet, I get a little worried. I try her cell. I don't leave a voicemail, because even though she has had the phone for 18 months, she never bothered to learn how to check it. So I call again. No answer. She finally calls me back at 10:30 to say that they are almost home, and she saw where I had called. The truth came out later that she was talking to her Mom the whole way home, in her friend's car, and couldn't answer the beep to let me know they were on the way.

02-20-2008, 11:17 PM	#63
robinsre XDTalk 2K Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 2,997	I've been relatively lucky. Everything my wife has wrecked she has paid for herself. But let's see...what's she done. 2004 - Fender bender, driving too fast while talking on cell phone 2004 - Fender bender #2, driving too fast while talking on cell phone. 2005 - Totals Neon, driving too fast in rain while talking on cell phone. 2005 - Breaks mirror off of new Sentra pulling into garage while talking on cell phone. 2006 - Talking on cell phone, rounds corner too fast destroys right two rims and tires. Hmmmm.... Call me crazy but I think I see a correlation. Lucky for me she won't read this, she's too busy talking on the cell phone to her mom. __________________ Zeroth law of thermodynamics : If you have 1 six pack of beer and your neighbor brings 4 beers over, you will each end up drinking only 5 beers. First law of thermodynamics : There's no such thing as a free beer. Second law of thermodynamics : Even if there was such thing as a free beer, you couldn't drink it all anyway. Third law of thermodynamics : The colder it gets, the less beer you will have.

02-21-2008, 04:58 AM	#67
goodformeto XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bakersfield, Ca Posts: 481	This one's not the worst, but it is the best reading because she and her sister argue the details and it gets better every time. My wife and her sister were heading down to LA and so my wife drives her new Grand Prix. On the way down, and loving the way her car handles on the freeway she notices the new billboard campaign for the CA D.O.T. "Slow down for the cone zones" They still argue over how many cones she hit. __________________ Maybe it is my fault; It's still your problem.

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02-20-2008, 11:13 PM	#62
Kent XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: SW Missouri Posts: 3,285	OK, so do we vote on the best story by page 10 or what? There seems to be some good ones, thanks for making me feel like I am not alone on this one! Kent

02-21-2008, 12:14 AM	#66
mity2 XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 179	my GF drove my then new 00 SHO into a flower pot.... Day I picked the car up from the dealer. Then few years later, She was trying to learn how to drive 5 speed. Drove the car in to side of my garage(no sever damage, luckly).

02-21-2008, 06:35 AM	#68
ParagonUSMC XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Fredericksburg, VA Posts: 251	Mine isn't so great, but I still give my wife a hard time about it. I was changing my stock Nissan Xterra bumper out to something much more beefy. Well, my wife backs across the whole friggin yard, manages to clip the corner of my stock bumper, and if flips up (think of stepping on the end of a rake) and smacks her passenger side door. Scared the hell out of her and put a little dent in the car. The worst part about it is what happened when she caught me laughing about it, even though I tried to hide under my truck.

02-21-2008, 08:21 AM	#70
bham shooter XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 567	Reading all of these reminded me of one more, the dreaded running over the curb. And also made me a little mad that my wife is constantly on the phone. Back in college, the wife (girlfriend/fiancee at the time. Can't remember which) and I are going to get a haircut before a presentation at school for the accounting majors. She goes about a half hour before I do, and then I drive over there to get mine clipped. As we are both leaving, she goes ahead of me. We were going to stop by our place and get into one vehicle to go up to campus. She makes a hard right turn out of the parking lot and catches her passenger rear tire on the curb and flattens it. So now I have to get out and put her spare on it so we can take it to the shop to get it repaired and put back on the rim. It actually just tore it off the rim and didn't do any actual damage to the tire or rim. I guess she was a little lucky on that one. And not to hijack the thread, but the woman on the cell phone while driving all needs to stop. My wife is so bad with it that I make certain to tell her to stay off of it if it has been raining or if the roads might by icy. If not, she would just hop in the car, back out, pull out of the driveway and call her mom. And when I'm on my way home from somewhere and buzz the house to let her know that I'm on my way, she wants to talk to me the whole way home. I mean, I'm going to be there in 10-15 minutes, and don't really want a phone to my ear the whole time. She gets all upset when I'm trying to get off the phone, but I just don't talk on it while driving. And I love how it is perfectly acceptable for her not to answer the phone, but when I don't, it is WW3. Case in point. I am driving home from a football game last fall, and the interstate between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham is bumper-to-bumper for the whole 50 miles. She must have called a half a dozen times. I finally handed it to my dad and told him to answer it. She was so mad that I wouldn't talk to her. But I had called her when I was walking out of the stadium and told her that we were about to get on the road, and that it would be a while. So she waited 20 minutes, and just wanted to see where we were. Hello? We're on the damn interstate with 50,000 other people. But two weeks after that, she rode out of town with a friend, with the friend being the driver, and was supposed to be home at 9:30. Naturally when it gets to be 10:00 and I haven't even gotten a call that they are on the way back home yet, I get a little worried. I try her cell. I don't leave a voicemail, because even though she has had the phone for 18 months, she never bothered to learn how to check it. So I call again. No answer. She finally calls me back at 10:30 to say that they are almost home, and she saw where I had called. The truth came out later that she was talking to her Mom the whole way home, in her friend's car, and couldn't answer the beep to let me know they were on the way.