[Desmosedici]

FACT: A wise man named Ron Burgundy once said that a woman's brain is a third the size of ours. It's science.

SCIENCE!

"Oh, I'm a woman pulling out of my apartment complex. Oh no, there's too much traffic so I can't cross, I'm just going to pull out here, drive forward 50 feet, and then do an illegal u-turn, so I don't have to yield right of way to anybody. Because, you know, I'm a woman and a list of things I'm good at (and by good, not as good as doing as a man is) are cooking."

Thanks, bitch.




edit: In the second picture, you can see the Pontiac Aztek, the worst car ever made, being driven by said woman.



So, I'm driving to get my mom a present, because yesterday was her birthday. I turn onto a street that has 2-3 lanes going into and coming out of the intersection, but are not marked, and goes down to one lane in both directions after the landscape divider, but is wide enough for 4 lanes, two in each direction, with a double yellow line down the middle. There's a break in the divider, were 5-7 cars were waiting to turn left into the shopping complex. Across from the shopping complex is this young lady's apartment complex, which she was coming out of. Facing the problem of having to wait for all those cars to turn, she pulls out of the apartment complex, now driving ahead of me.

The divider ends, she slows down and pulls to the right, so I hammer it and pull to the left. Then she turns. (WHY DID YOU TURN!?!?!) At which point we collide.

Then the cops show up and arrest me because I had 2 warrants out for traffic violations. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM, LOL. Pay $500 for the tickets, released. This morning, hop on the horn with State Farm (her boyfriends insurance, because of course it wasn't her car). They accept fault in less than 2 hours, and I've got a nice 2012 Jetta for a rental. LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR, STATE FARM IS THERE!

The State Farm agent and I were actually looking at this view from GoogleMaps when I was explaining to him how it happened. Hooray for technology. My insurance agent was not as friendly, but at least State Farm is covering everything, because my insurance company told me my car was "flagged" for a possible total loss. Phew.

f*cking women, though.

This post has been edited by Desmosedici on Friday, May 11 2012, 19:12

[thecommander]

Similar experience(but not that bad). My ex-girlfriend was driving my car, without a license or, and I was teaching her how to parallel park. She parked fine, but didn't check the mirror when she pulled out. A brand new Camry was driving by and she nailed both of its passenger doors. Luckily the only damage to my Aviator was that I had some silver paint on the corner of the bumper. The Camry wasn't too lucky. Big dent and black paint on both of it's doors. Me being a good boyfriend said it was me driving when the lady stopped and when the police took the accident report. Nothing ever came out of it though which is strange. My rates stayed the the same and I never heard anything about her repairs. The police gave me a minor incident report that's it.

[JayC]

Mikal. come back to europe so we can ride mopeds and laugh at gas prices.

[Ronnyboy]

Women, can't live with em, certainly can drive without them.

[Desmosedici]

QUOTE (thecommander @ Friday, May 11 2012, 18:45)

Similar experience(but not that bad). My ex-girlfriend was driving my car, without a license or, and I was teaching her how to parallel park. She parked fine, but didn't check the mirror when she pulled out. A brand new Camry was driving by and she nailed both of its passenger doors. Luckily the only damage to my Aviator was that I had some silver paint on the corner of the bumper. The Camry wasn't too lucky. Big dent and black paint on both of it's doors. Me being a good boyfriend said it was me driving when the lady stopped and when the police took the accident report. Nothing ever came out of it though which is strange. My rates stayed the the same and I never heard anything about her repairs. The police gave me a minor incident report that's it.

That's a completely different headline: People that drive Toyota's made after 2002.

hi jayc

[ska]

I was probably a good ten inches from getting t-boned by some woman driving a Toyota Sienna (naturally) who failed to yield at a yield sign the other day. Possibly could have been a pretty nasty wreck had I been coming down that road about three seconds earlier.

I couldn't tell, but it looked to me like she was on the phone, which is just totally f*cking shocking.

[trip]

I lost the best car in the world and the only car I've ever cared about to a 90 year old lady on velum t-boning me with her Caddy. I had no idea what happened. I ended up in someone's front yard and couldn't figure out why my door wouldn't open.

Even though I'm not happy about it, you all can rest a bit easier knowing that my wife does not drive.

[Lurch]

Women should stay in the kitchen and keep the beer cold and the sandwiches hot for us men.

[Desmosedici]

How do you change the battery on a woman's watch?

[Ronnyboy]

QUOTE (Desmosedici @ Sunday, May 13 2012, 18:31)

How do you change the battery on a woman's watch?

Doesn't matter, there's a clock on the stove.

[TheJustinAllenK]

QUOTE (Ronnyboy @ Sunday, May 13 2012, 22:35)

QUOTE (Desmosedici @ Sunday, May 13 2012, 18:31) How do you change the battery on a woman's watch? Doesn't matter, there's a clock on the stove.

[fatal1ty619]

I T-Boned a huge black lady who thought she could beat us out of a stop sign.



As you can see by my beautifully rendered Google Street View picture, this is me, and this is her. She drove casually up to the stop sign, as usual, and I was driving 45mph down the road, which has no stop sign, and she must yield right-of-way to me. She felt as though, with me being about where the blue arrow starts, to turn in front of me to make her turn. It may have been ok, had she continued her turn, but she felt, for whatever insane reason, to stop in the middle of the intersection .

Now, other than her complete lack of thought, there were many things wrong with this picture. She was not the owner of the car, and neither was her passenger. She had no insurance, and neither did the passenger, OR the owner of the car. She had gotten back surgury a WEEK EARLIER, and wasn't allowed to drive for a month. Common sense was nowhere on her part.

Thank God we had Uninsured Motorist. If not, we never would've gotten a free hospital trip or the $2000 for the totaled car.

EDIT: Found pics of my Accent. Not very pretty...





This post has been edited by fatal1ty619 on Sunday, May 20 2012, 23:29

[Garfield 2]

Is your Passat a V6 or a 1.8T ?

[chris]

That sucks Fatality, man. People driving with no insurance are one of the reasons UK insurance is so high, i thing it's like 1/3 of all drivers on UK roads lack the correct protection.

[Desmosedici]

sucks fatality.

Garfield, mine is the 2.8.

OH UPDATE. My car is totaled, and the insurance is trying to screw me over! Yay! Did 120mph in the rental 2012 Jetta the other night with a Golf

[Garfield 2]

QUOTE (Desmosedici @ Friday, May 25 2012, 01:13)

sucks fatality. Garfield, mine is the 2.8. OH UPDATE. My car is totaled, and the insurance is trying to screw me over! Yay! Did 120mph in the rental 2012 Jetta the other night with a Golf

It's probably going to be imported into Poland in three months time and sold as an accident-free mint condition car.

Just as an example:


The Car in Poland already.



The car before it was imported.

Wow, you can even see it's still on the same tires that it was in the US.

[nic_23]

Jesus they don't mess around in making that BMW look good, i know a friend that takes English cars and converts them to left hand drive and imports them to Lithuania, Poland and Russia.

[Desmosedici]

i'll totally buy my car with a salvage title and send it to poland

[Garfield 2]

QUOTE (Desmosedici @ Friday, May 25 2012, 21:05)

i'll totally buy my car with a salvage title and send it to poland

Haha. That's why they're imported into Poland (salvage cars) - they're basically "junk" and therefore, you don't have to pay the excise duty or the VAT on the import. This means the guys can save quite a lot of money and make quite a lot of profit. My friend did that once with a 2007 2.0T Audi A4 and I think he made over $3000 profit.

[Officer620]

Stupidity is not confined to a specific gender.

Cheers!