WARNING: This post serves no purpose other than to rant and rave.
Last night we went to our first antenatal class. Nice, small group (5 couples), all very friendly, how nice. As we all left I saw parked behind my MX5, back-to-back so to say along the curb, one of those ludicrously huge SUVs. I remember thinking to myself "Look at the size difference between our cars; I hope I never have a tangle with one of them". One of the other couples got into the monstrosity, started up the engine and - you guessed it - reversed right into the back of my car with a sickening crunch.
They got out and were very apologetic. We had a look at the back and couldn't really see much damage to the bumper which seemed surprising because of the loud noise, but I said I'd look closer in the daylight and then let him know what the damage was. After we got home I thought about the scrape-marks on my bumper and thought they were odd: the main damage to the bumper was scrape marks on the top of my bumper. After thinking about it I thought that what might have happened was that due to the height difference of our two cars the underside of his bumper might have scraped against the top of my bumper, with his entire bumper then riding up mine and proceeding to smash against the actual back of my car into the license-plate panel, rather than the two bumpers colliding. I got out my flashlight and had a look, and sure enough, that's what had happened - there's a big crack in the license-plate panel, and only scrapes to the top of my bumper.
I've always hated SUVs out of principle, because they're plain stupid vehicles, but now I have a personal grievance with them as well. They really should be banned; there's absolutely no reason why a mid-30s couple with no kids living in Cambridge which is as flat as a pancake should be driving such a monstrosity.
Amen. Thank you for listening.
Eric