Entry for 21st December, 2007

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I have just been involved in a car crash. Don't worry. No-one was hurt. I can still type, so all three of you will still be able to enjoy my idle musings over your morning cappuccino, when you should be tackling your in tray.
I fear that the accident was my fault. I have deduced this from the fact that my car was moving (backwards actually). The other vehicle was in fact stationary. And empty. What with it being parked in a perfectly legal spot at the side of the road. I say it was stationary. It was until it jolted as I rammed into it side long as I reversed out my driveway.
There was a moment's silence, and then its car alarm went off. It didn't make the usual siren noise. Instead a loud, shrill voice started shouting: "Come and look at this crazy fool. Marvel at the worst driver in Scotland."
My car and me were fine. The other vehicle was not. the owner was lovely, and we swapped insurance details, as if we were long lost friends exchanging addresses. But I felt like a small boy admitting to his dad that he's done a bad thing. I phoned my insurers. I expected sympathy and perhaps an offer of some sweet tea, but instead I got a very bored call centre man from Swindon. He only perked up when he heard that it was my fault. "Oh well. That's your no claims bonus gone then."
I feel that it is most unfair that they take your no claims bonus away just because you make a claim on your policy. I may have to write to my MP about this. Why should I suffer just because I am a menace on the highway, and back into parked cars at high speed?