"AstraVanMan" wrote in message
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Either way, the point is if a person causes damage to someone else's
property that didn't have that damage before, then they should pay for the
repair. If the person then decides to pocket the cash and live with the
dent/scratch/scrape, then that's entirely up to them.

In that case the offender is not paying for the damge to the car, only to
feed the smug owner's attitude.


I once reversed into a very low bollard and dented the rear bumper on our
car. It had no effect whatsoever on any of the functions of the car - to
go,
stop and carry things. It didn't even have an effect on the subsequent
MOT
test.

What upset me was that when I went indoors and dramatically told Spouse
that
I'd crashed into something his response was to ask how much damage there
was
to the car, he didn't ask if I was injured.

He very quickly realised that he'd got his priorities wrong.

Heh! I couldn't agree more there - had he asked "What happened? Are you
ok?", to which you replied "Yes, I'm fine, it was only at very low speed",
to which he then replied "was there much damage?" then he wouldn't have
been
in the doghouse, right? :-)

He wasn't in the doghouse, he remembered that flesh is more important than
metal.

Mary

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