The Serial Bumper
OK so last night at like 12:30 am the kid next door backed into my sister's car while driving his father's car. My sister's car was parked in the driveway!!! IN!!! the driveway!!! he had backed into our driveway and hit her car.
This is the third car that this kid has hit. One was the van of my friend and contractor. The other was my car while my mother was driving. She was backing up and was already in the street and he back into her without looking.
So that's two parked cars and one moving one... the kid is a hazard. I'm afraid to park my car even in my driveway... He hit my sister's car IN THE DRIVEWAY!!!
I was startled by a fairly loud car alarm so I looked out my kitchen window. I saw a SUV type car in our driveway very close to my sister's car, so I wrote the plate number down. I didn't know it was the neighbor at first, it was late. So they drove off before I got a chance to go out and really look. I went up to the third floor to talk to my sister and she told me that she saw the car close to her car from the window up there too. We weren't sure if the alarm was hers or not, but we went down to look at her car. What do you know? there were scratches on her bumper. We went back inside because it was cold. We talked for awhile.
Then the car came back and pulled into the neighbor's yard. This made us angry. This is the third car that has been damaged in like 8 months. We walked over to talk to them. The kid that hit my car was the one driving... how do I know... he stepped out of the driver's side. My sister said something like "hey I think you guys hit my car..." The kid's father went mental... in like seconds. He was yelling and screaming and throwing a temper tantrum like a child. Then he was in my sisters face and I thought he was going to hit her. He called her a bitch and some other stuff and accused her of trying to scam them. We just went over to talk to them. I had a Mag lite flashlight in my hand, and my cell phone in my pocket. I really thought he was going to hit my sister. I thought I was going to have to defend my sister and dial 911 to get the police there. Yes, the guy was that unreasonable. We never even yelled except to calm him down, but he never did.
So my sister went back in the house because he was obviously an unreasonable asshole. His kid was much more calm. I almost felt bad for the kid because his dad was such a shithead. By the way the kid and I had come to an agreement over my car, a signed one. We kept it out of insurance. Under the agreement he supposed to pay me the value of the damage that he did to my car. I had gotten it appraised at a little over 500 bucks. The agreement was that he would pay me a little over 500 dollars in 3 installments all due by the end of January. The kid gave me a money order for 191 dollars a few weeks after the agreement was signed. It was more than I thought he would come up with since he complained about not having money right away during the agreement process. So it's march now and he hasn't paid any other money. He works at a pizza shop. I don't really need the money, I just wanted him to be accountable for his actions. I was planning on calling him and saying that he could forget about the money. But since his father was such a shit head about the other night I can't in good conscience do that now.
I feel that the whole damned family over there needs to learn accountability... what is it about people these days... You hit someone... you got caught... be nice... My sister was going to just ask what happened and was looking for an apology. The scratches were all on the plastic so she wasn't going to bother fixing it. She just wanted an apology.. but they we so scary and nasty about it that now she's going to file a report with the police. She has already filed it with the insurance company. Whoops being an asshole doesn't get you anywhere after all. Just say your sorry and take responsibility and maybe things wont be so bad.
Because of the way the guy acted I'm a little scared of the neighbor and I'm going to put up some camera's in front of my house in case they hit more cars or do something stupid. Since I know they wont take responsibility, and at least one of them responds in a very violent manner. Too bad the world can't have more reasonable people in it.
