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Original poster

To be pissed off with my best friend's BF for insinuating....

67 replies

WobblyWenchisBEHINDYOU · 21/12/2009 19:27

that we are both imbacilles.

I went to see her today, she lives in an area that has been affected badly by the snow, so do I but it's not too bad in my area.

So, I went to leave, my car got stuck as fresh snow had fallen since I had been there, and we didn't realise. After trying everything to get the car out, we decided I would take her car as I had to get back to collect DD.

Cue, ranting phone conversation between best frien d and her bf... Saying us women ar "chaos" are we both stupid driving each others cars in these conditions and that we would be facing high insurance bills after crashing each others cars wtf??!!

Fact of the matter is, I have 20 years driving experience and (touch wood) never had an accident, and neither has best friend.

Why do men assume that women are so brainless and only men are capable of driving in adverse conditions.

Am so , he doesn't even know me to judge me this way.

OP posts:
IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 21/12/2009 21:05

x-post

doesn't matter about the state of the roads. You would have been unreasonable to do this in the height of summer with 100% visability. In your situation I would have had my friend ring their insurance company and add me for a day/week whatever and paid for it. wouldn't have taken more than a few mins. (I do it when I get a courtesy car from the garage, to make sure I'm covered)

IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 21/12/2009 21:05

oops!

MsHighwater · 21/12/2009 21:05

Nevertheless, unless you have very unusual insurance, you are only covered for 3rd party risks driving her car (and vice versa).

ImSoNotTelling · 21/12/2009 21:08

Why the sarcy cheers?

it is useful, surely, to learn that even with fully comp insurance you are not normally insured to drive other vehicles fully comp as well?

That should be a non-sarcy cheers IMO.

IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 21/12/2009 21:10

you posted in AIBU, people are going to disagree with you.

at you too.

hobbgoblin · 21/12/2009 21:15

Plus, I hate to say it but only imbacilles spell imbecille that way.

You don't have a good defence here, let's face it.

PrincessToadstool · 21/12/2009 21:16

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

ImSoNotTelling · 21/12/2009 21:17

I do hope the sarcy eyebrow wasn't for me, given that I am more or less the only person backing up the OP...

TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 21:17

Double plus, I hate to say that only imbeciles correct imbacilles to imbecilles.

IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 21/12/2009 21:21

@ hobgoblin and hully

Casserole · 21/12/2009 21:21

You yourself stated in your OP that you lived in an area that had been adversely affected by snow, and that your friend lived in an area even worse affected.

It's clearly some distance away as it involves motorways and you left 2 hours for the return leg.

Any fool knows that more snow has been widely predicted and publicised for most of the country today.

You then parked in a car park that you could clearly see had not been salted or gritted or cleared.

Your friend clearly didn't fancy travelling in it.

Her boyfriend said you were stupid to drive each other's cars in the snow. Um, yep, you were. Even the most experienced driver is sometimes powerless as to what happens when your car hits ice and you have no traction. To add an unfamiliar car into the mix that you have no experience of handling IS stupid.

Her boyfriend also said you'd face high insurance bills if you crashed. As has been repeatedly pointed out to you here, you'd only have had 3rd party cover if anything had happened. Which, presumably, you'd know, what with your extensive and long driving history and experience. No? Oh look, he was right again.

But sorry, you clearly mistook this area for your blog. As you were, then...

hobbgoblin · 21/12/2009 21:21

I was being Italian for a moment

dur, surely that was frikkin obvious, double durrrr ???

TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 21:23

You carn't spel, innit.

ImSoNotTelling · 21/12/2009 21:25

Op has gone off to check her insurance docs and prove us all wrong...

Good luck with that

Original poster
WobblyWenchisBEHINDYOU · 21/12/2009 21:26

nope, just sitting here reading the posts

OP posts:
hobbgoblin · 21/12/2009 21:26

I don't think I'll bother explaining me self, I'll just blame it on breastfeeding AndADD some random CAps lock for authenticity and a misbehaving keyboard.

Or renaME MY SELF HobbGoblin so I look like cod with the 2 part capitalised name thing...

Original poster
WobblyWenchisBEHINDYOU · 21/12/2009 21:28

apologies for the spelling mistake!!

OP posts:
BoysAreLikeDogs · 21/12/2009 21:39

so OP

do you concur that on reflection you were a bit of an imbacille as indeed was your mate??

Imbacille · 21/12/2009 21:42

I feel a bit french

ImSoNotTelling · 21/12/2009 21:44

at reading posts.

Thing is you're supposed to join in, really.

Original poster
WobblyWenchisBEHINDYOU · 21/12/2009 21:58

i was joining in ImSoNotTelling. ah well .

OP posts:
Imbacille · 21/12/2009 22:01

yes indeedy lolo at I was joining in

TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:09

I had that Picasso in the back of my cab once

Imbacille · 21/12/2009 22:10

hee haw hee haw hee haw in twirling moustache french man stylee

whifflegarden · 21/12/2009 22:11

Hully and Hobb, you girls are norty