I, like most people have lapses of good cheer every now and then. At the end of a day like this one I think I have earned the right to be a little grumpy. Not the all out depression that comes with things really going bad of course, that is reserved for special occasions, but mildly grumpy.
Work has been busy. Ian is off on holiday for the week and there is just the two of us responsible for third line support and all the integration for the project so I’m doing all of it at the moment. I don’t begrudge him his time off, he’s earnt it as much as anyone, and we get back a happier Ian when he has had some time away which is better for all of us, but as I said, its busy, that is why I finished work at 8pm this evening.
I drive to work every day and the company provide a parking spaces, which is great in central London.
I normally park in the biggest of our car parks which is used in the evening for the articulated lorries to wait until the presses roll.
Most days I park on the right hand side of the car park away from the lorries but this morning I was a little late so I parked at the end of the car-park.
Normally we are called by security if our cars are in the wrong place after 7pm and tonight I left at 8pm but wasn’t called so thought it was OK.
Walking out with our accountant, we moaned about the weather and a couple of other things then joked about looking on the negative side of life. Just to cap it all I said that I wonder what state my car was in as I was a little late going to move it.
I walked into the car-park and there was a lorry near to my car. I gestured to the driver, who was getting back in his cab, that I would move my car so he could reverse without worrying where it was. I was obviously too late. He had already reversed into my car destroying the rear passenger side wing, window and roof. Because the trailer pushed the car forward it seems to have messed up my front suspension too, pushing the wheels against the large logs in front of the car which scraped as I reversed out of the space. Nice.
I kept my temper under check and took the guys detail, the details of another driver who was parked on the other side of my car and reported the accident to security.
So after taking copious pictures of the damage when I arrived home, I installed a plastic window made from a recycle bin bag and LOTS of tape, then parked it as close to my fence as I could in case some little darling takes advantage of an easy in.
Tomorrow, the joy of Insurance