Go talk to the store mgr and see if they will cover it. You might get lucky and get them to pay the repairs....happened to me once. As for the total asshattery of people, consider it a lesson learned.
Uprising: Please do not use the term FML again, unless you want to be labeled an attention-seeking 13-year-old girl.
Lesson learned? what lesson was learned? people suck? i think we all know that. you should have confronted him. without doing so, you only enable/encourage this behavior in the future. I'm not saying you have to knock his lights out - but make it known you saw what happened and that you have his license plates and the video cameras in the parking lot (assuming there are some) to corroborate your story and that you're calling the police to file a report to pursue legal action. at least that is what I would have done...
Go track down his car using the information from the business magnets, and then give him a door ding that is much worse.
Didn't accept the food stamps. Essentially I just left. I couldn't believe it. Who has their 5/6? year old daughter sitting on the benches next to walmart at 11pm? Sorry for the hijack. Some people really suck at life.
No, the lesson that should be learned is that since all people suck, there's no reason to someone else's suckiness bring you down.
Had a similar thing happen to me once except it was at a house party with a truck (instead of shopping cart) that backed out of an apartment parking lot on to a street and backed into the side of my street parked car (yeah...quite the ding). Saw the whole thing, my car alarm went off, and dipsh_t drove off before I could get out there (no license plate #). Cost me $500 (deductible) to fix. There is no lesson to be learned. People will avoid responsibility a lot of the time. This is fact. The ones who accept responsibility are the exception to the rule. At any given moment of any day, there are dipsh_ts out there driving around without insurance coverage ready to wreck their cars into insured drivers. It sucks when it happens...because the insured driver is the one who pays. The uninsured may get caught up in a mess (e.g. insured driver's insurance company will try to go after them and, if they don't pay, then they will try to take their driver's license away) but that is no consolation when the insured driver (who is at no fault at all) has to pay deductible and probable other expenses (maybe rental if not covered, etc.) out-of-pocket. Believe me...some uninsured old-timer did it to me and I was tempted to pay him a visit to cause some of my own damage to his property to see how he likes it...cause I don't like it when a stranger screws me in the... . No lesson learned from that experience, either, other than sometimes life sucks hard.
People surprise me in a bad way all the time. Seriously, if I did that to someone i wouldn't be able to sleep.
Surfguy, there's a huge lesson to be learned here. Probably the biggest one we should learn today. It's lack of integrity. It's the ****mire that our country has fallen into over the last two hundred years, since the industrial revolution. People glorify and reward selfishness and greed. We need to start raising our kids to have integrity. We need to lead by example and have integrity in everything.
I think it is a direct result of a lack of communities. When more people lived in small towns you could never get away with it. I would be like "Hey Jim? WTF man?" Then tell everyone in town and there would be social repercussions. As it is, i live in a city with millions of people and will never see this POS again. Unless I hypothetically call his business and setup bogus appointments for 20 or so people and he shows up and wastes his time.
Agreed, community is an extension of high moral fiber and integrity. Do unto others and whatnot. Sorry about your car, man.
