Second chances

i think friends do deserve a second chance. That way you can tell whether it was a one-off or whether they are serial tossers.:rolleyes:

Example. Ex-m8 of mine at uni we used to hang out. Any women i tell him im interested in, he ended up either snogging them or sleeping with them. He did it 3 times. In each case he knew about my feelings. Now fair enuff if they were up for it and he didnt have a gf but he had a lovely girlfriend (at another uni) and in at least 1 of these cases he was cheating on her - i might add i knew his gf as well and we were friends)

He would always apologise for it and said he couldnt help himself.....lol

Anyway the End of story = me telling him to eff off and never darken my doorway again. 3rd times the charm eh....
no i wasnt up for SSeconds :D (+10 kudos if you know what i mean here)
 
Phate said:
No, he was taking me directly to court, not my insurer - he had already made his claim for compensation (and got complete bugger all :D) then wanted to take me to court afterwards.

And you'd have forwarded the correspondance to your insurer, who would have settled it for you. Thats how it works - he serves against you, you pass it to your insurer, who deals with it and settles it. Your insurer would then either have won or lost in court and dealt with it accordingly.

I do hope you've not lost a friend over a misapprehension of how our legal system works.
 
trojan698 said:
Were you driving recklessly? Was the accident your fault? Be honest with yourself, if it was, his right to take you to court was pretty fair as he was under the misapprehension that he lost his job due to being off sick. Which, btw, is still possibly the case - what employer would admit to sacking someone because they were ill? If it was genuinely an unavoidable accident then it's a different story.

I wasn't driving recklessly, I was driving outside of my ability.

Plus what accidents are unavoidable? nobody knows when an accident is going to happen.
 
[TW]Fox said:
And you'd have forwarded the correspondance to your insurer, who would have settled it for you. Thats how it works - he serves against you, you pass it to your insurer, who deals with it and settles it. Your insurer would then either have won or lost in court and dealt with it accordingly.

That I didn't know, but it doesn't matter now.

I do hope you've not lost a friend over a misapprehension of how our legal system works.

I lost a friend because after he claimed compensation and got bugger all he turned into a tard and went after me.
 
Well I guess if I was the friend, i'd be half tempted to take you to court, but since im a good friend I wouldn't.


So I wouldn't be his mate, I mean you should never trust anyone, but when someone finally reveals their distrust they aint worth your time anymore.
 
JohnnyG said:
It sounds like he had every right to claim for compensation, friend or not.

Which he did.

You should have been a decent enough friend to help him get it.

I wasn't happy with him claiming compensation as I just wanted to forget about that night and he wanted to pursue it, so I did what I had to (forward the letter to the insurer blah blah) and left it that.

He got sod all as the employer had paid him for his time off and wasn't going to renew his contract anyway and was annoyed at it so tried to sue me directly.
 
trojan698 said:
That suggests to me that you weren't in complete control of the car which borders on wrecklessness. Make up with the guy.


Driving outside of your ability generally means you don't have 100% control of the car.

Wrecklessness is driving at 90 through a 30 zone and not giving a toss about who else is on the road - which I can do with complete control of the car (but obviously I don't)- that is driving wrecklessly.
 
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ArmyofHarmony said:
So I wouldn't be his mate, I mean you should never trust anyone, but when someone finally reveals their distrust they aint worth your time anymore.

There are very few people I trust with everything. and I agree on your final point.
 
Phate said:
Driving outside of your ability generally means you don't have 100% control of the car.

Wrecklessness is driving at 90 through a 30 zone and not giving a toss about who else is on the road.
Could also argue that it's wreckless driving in a way that you don't have full control of the car.
 
Phate said:
I was driving outside of my ability.

You said in Motors when it happened you were driving safely and a car appeared out of nowhere, forced you off the road, and dissapeared.

I got flamed for suggesting otherwise.
 
DunK1 said:
Could also argue that it's wreckless driving in a way that you don't have full control of the car.

hmmm - I disagree.

As I said - I can quite easily drive my car with full control at stupid speeds round the local 30 zones as I know the roads very well - I would put a greater risk to everyone around me who isn't driving wrecklessly from overtakes etc.

Driving outside my ability however, that would be something like drifting round a sharp corner on wet tarmac in a FWD car - considering I've never done any driving like that that's when I would be outside of my ability and what the car does is luck.
 
Phate said:
I wasn't happy with him claiming compensation as I just wanted to forget about that night and he wanted to pursue it, so I did what I had to (forward the letter to the insurer blah blah) and left it that.

He got sod all as the employer had paid him for his time off and wasn't going to renew his contract anyway and was annoyed at it so tried to sue me directly.
So he wanted to sue you for loss of earnings (fair enough) but when it transpired that there would be no loss of earnings he didn't pursue it?
 
[TW]Fox said:
You said in Motors when it happened you were driving safely and a car appeared out of nowhere, forced you off the road, and dissapeared.

I got flamed for suggesting otherwise.


I was being a moron and embarrased about what a complete spangle I had been.

So I tried to cover it up, anyone asks me now however and I tell em what happened.
 
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