Conor
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.. I'll kick this off - i'm sure this one is going to stick with me for a while :/
I arrived in a Lidl car park to park one day. The usual drive in, reverse into spot. This time I reversing and heard a crunch of plastic. Thinking the crunch was a bottle, I ignored, drove forward to line up and complete my parking... another crunch. At this point there was a woman and her mother standing about 10 feet away from me (I had window down) and she just asked what I was doing in complete disgust..
Up to this point I had only been using my right hand side wing mirror for direction / assessment (so bad, I know!) along with looking back on the right......I duely looked around to my left to see a car in the bay. I then quickly realised the crunching was plastic, but a car bumper and not a bottle!
A total disaster! I was beyond embarrassed and got out to inspect / apologise. I think to both our surprise there was no damage on either side and after a few minutes of fumbling around, we went about our business.
It is an event filled with shame and was also a cheap lesson.
For the record: I was always a careful driver when going forward and back, looking around all angles. I guess like most silly incidents like this, my mind was just elsewhere without even realising it. Every time I put my car in reverse now I remember that incident.
I arrived in a Lidl car park to park one day. The usual drive in, reverse into spot. This time I reversing and heard a crunch of plastic. Thinking the crunch was a bottle, I ignored, drove forward to line up and complete my parking... another crunch. At this point there was a woman and her mother standing about 10 feet away from me (I had window down) and she just asked what I was doing in complete disgust..
Up to this point I had only been using my right hand side wing mirror for direction / assessment (so bad, I know!) along with looking back on the right......I duely looked around to my left to see a car in the bay. I then quickly realised the crunching was plastic, but a car bumper and not a bottle!
A total disaster! I was beyond embarrassed and got out to inspect / apologise. I think to both our surprise there was no damage on either side and after a few minutes of fumbling around, we went about our business.
It is an event filled with shame and was also a cheap lesson.
For the record: I was always a careful driver when going forward and back, looking around all angles. I guess like most silly incidents like this, my mind was just elsewhere without even realising it. Every time I put my car in reverse now I remember that incident.