My neighbours are nice people but are the worst drivers in the known Universe, both the husband and the wife.
We share a drive but have our own parking areas (huge, this is important) on opposite sides IYSWIM.
Anyway, this morning I am in the living room opening the blinds when I see the lady of the house backing out of her bit of the drive ready to go out. All she does is come out straight and backs right into my car .
So I go outside to a) make sure she hasn't buggered my bumper and b) to help her out as she is just shunting back and forth. Whilst I am outside my front door she pulls forward straight into the back of their old car (which needs to go to the scrapyard as it broke down 5 months ago and they replaced it an equally ancient banger but for some mysterious reason it remains on the drive) ! She hit their car with quite a crunch .
I decide at this point to tap on the window and offer to guide her out (FFS there is loads of room to get out, DH and I manage perfectly fine). She accepts and with help she manages to pull off the drive.
When she got back and parked safely on her side I asked if she was ok (she is a very placid lady) and she said she was fine thankyou. I reiterated that all she needed to do was turn hard to the right to get off in one or two moves (rather than the backforthbackforthbackforth ad nauseum method previously applied). I also said (nicely with smiling) that it would be an idea to stop BEFORE she hit the back of my car too. She smiled back at me and said "Oh, it's ok. I hit ours too (meaning the clapped out banger)" . I (a bit gobsmacked by this point tbh) said, "I don't really mind if you hit your own cars, but I DO mind if you hit mine !". She told me that she was a new driver, passed for 6 months (HOW ?????), I said congratulations and she apologised for bumping my car, I told her there was no damage done but please don't hit it again (still smiling and polite) and she toddled off inside the house.
HOW do people pass their tests with driving like that ?! I really, truly do not understand it.
Both DH and I have been waiting for an accident like this to happen since we moved next door to them....