Scraped a car and feel so anxious

[RainbowAndArrow]

I just want to cry
I misjudged a parking space and scraped a car.
I left my details
I just feel sick. I just feel so useless. I beat myself up over everything.

Be kind to yourself. This stuff happens. It’s life, it’s what insurance is for. You left your details so you did the right thing. Wait for the person to get in touch and just be firm around doing what is reasonable. If you both want to settle this outside of insurance then make sure you see an invoice beforehand not just agree to a random price. Insurance is the safest as everything will be done legitimately and there’s no risk of this coming back to you later.

I reversed into our garage a couple of months ago and scraped the car down the side of the wall. And then panicked and floored it forward and scraped it worse on the way out. And no logical reason why I might do this after 3 years of happily reversing into our garage with no problems!

Felt absolutely awful for days (knew it would cost hundreds to repair, which we don’t have. But long term better than the insurance as I have such a high excess and many years of no claims). Kept bursting into tears if I thought about it - how I could be so stupid!

i don’t even think about it now, I just put it down to one of those things. And I’m grateful that no one was hurt. I’m more mindful now when I’m reversing, even in what I thought was a ‘safe’ place.

It won’t be long and you’ll have forgotten about it, OP. No one was hurt and it can be fixed. But totally get why you’re beating yourself up as I did the same. Go easy on yourself!

I'm good at beating myself up over annoying things too OP but you have just got to remember you're a human being and we all make mistakes sometimes, it's just a fact of life, we're not robots that are expected to get things right all the time.

It's annoying right now but it's not the end of the world and with each day that passes it will disappear into insignificance ❤️