What to stick on his windscreen which wont come off easily? [OT]

Yes there are several definitions. The supermarket has made the mistake of assuming people actually are capable of thinking for themselves.

Welcome to the 24 hour society perpetuated by people, like yourself, wanting to be able to get anything whenever they want.

Get a decent newsreader which can filter/block the thread.

And at 75 quid a claim motability cars are a rip off I would sooner have my money in the bank and run my 300.00 car till it drops and get a replacement when that time comes . Motability cars are ok if you are doing hundreds of miles a week but for trips to the shops and the odd run to the seaside they are a complete waste of money and what an attraction a new car is for bloody kids to run a nail all along one side or both sides . If I had a motability car sat outside our house I would never sleep at nights .

You missed the point no child of that age should be out at that time of night/morning some parents are just not fit to have children .

Exactly Conner outwardly I look ok today I know I am going to walk into Sainsburys like there is nothing wrong with me today , tomorrow and for the rest of the week I shall probably not be able to walk a couple of yards especially if this rain keeps up .

We have a notability car and my own private car, I prefer to drive my car, but we have still done 10k in the motability car since October...

DLA is financial recognition that a disability causes extra expense, and that a considerate state mitigates some of that expense...

Why? Have you ever had children?

I'll freely admit though that I did have the "Look! Nothing wrong with him" attitude until it happened to me.

But does that mean you need to use disabled spots? Surely they're not just a 'bonus' for anyone who's disabled, they're there for people who have trouble walking, for whatever reason.

andyt

I'll have to see if I ever see a dented one. However, one of your list has been disagreed with already. The conclusion however, is that it seems most cars (ie , all the cars not in your list) will dent when pranged with the force of an opening door. Remember that the edge of a car door is a very small surface area compared to a person's foot (WRT the "drop kick" above). Remember in school when they talked about pressure and surface area?

A side impact bar (as the name suggests), doesn't cover the entire door, and probably doesn't even sit right up against the door panel anyway. You could still get a dent if the car gets hit with a trolley or a door anywhere on the door panel.

andyt

If you were injured, you would have told him. *You* chose to tell him about the car, so naturally he enquired about it. If you'd gone in and said "I'm hurt! I've crashed the car and I'm hurt!", I imagine his reaction would have been different.

andyt

The "victim as expert" argument so beloved of anecephalics everywhere.

*Whatever* does this sentence mean? Who's been making someone else have something?!

You did a runner? Why make the offer in the first place?

That shouldn't be an issue to you. You've recompensed him for the loss of value to his car. Whether he decides to use that money to get it fixed, or simply accept that he'll get less for it when he sells it (because the buyer will probably want to get it fixed), and keeps the money to make up for it, is irrelevant to you. I'd suggest that if you don't want to feel stung that he's not had the damage fixed, then just be careful how you drive and how you (and your kids) swing open car doors in the supermarket car park.

That's its *primary* function. However, for most people it's also supposed to be comfortable, clean and in decent condition - and a cigarette burn in the arm negates at least two of those.

That's great if that's possible - but certainly it's not always possible with a car door dint. I'd certainly worry about making it worse.

*Exactly* - that's because other people respect your stuff. What if they didn't - and had exactly the "FFS it's only a..." attitude to the stuff in your house. I think you'd soon get a little upset.

Not that you're displaying Mary, only selfishness and a bizarre self-centred attitude, it would seem. At the end of the day, you cannot expect people to have the same attitude to their cars as you have. You have to respect that and not think people aren't going to be upset if you were to prang someone's pride and joy. You'd be just as upset if someone did the same to something which you coveted in the same way - it's just that in your case it's not your car.

andyt

Are you saying that you *didn't* actually hit his car? How come he thought you did? What was his proof? What's the story here?

andyt

I got off a plane at 2am once, and stopped at a 24-hour supermarket to buy some fresh food (bread, milk, fruit etc) on my way home. My children (then 7, 5 and 2 years old) were wide awake and it seemed more sensible than trying to drag them into the supermarket the following morning when they were likely to be tired and cranky and before they'd had anything decent to eat (and yes, they would have had to come along, because my partner, who wasn't with me at the time, was still out of the country).

I guess in your view that makes me "not fit to have children". Or perhaps it's the case that you shouldn't make such sweeping judgements when you don't know the facts.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember raden saying something like:

Ta; I must remember not to do those things.

Nah. Y'see, by virtue of people having too many kids, there's going to be lots of people around who don't yet have kids of their own - which gives the appearance of the average person having less than 1 child. There's still an explosion going on.

The explosion is the cause for concern. Personally I feel that couples should only have two kids of their own.

andyt