Insure and go. Better then Insure and die.
Apart from cyclists, the most annoying thing that’s ever happened to me is getting the back of my brand new Audi A7 driven into by a guy who wasn’t insured.
That’s right. A Ford Focus decided to plough its way into the boot of my car and after I’d gotten over the initial swearing and cursing bit of my rage, I went to exchange insurance details with the other driver. He seemed like a perfectly normal everyday guy – suit wearing, middle class, slim with a hint of a beer belly showing around his midriff. I was fully prepared to be nice, grit my teeth and smile just so I could get things sorted out as quickly as possible. He looked at me blankly when I asked for his insurance details. That was when I had to close my eyes, sit down and count to ten.
I can’t repeat what I said to Gary (that was his name by the way) when he began explaining that he didn’t have any current insurance details as it was his girlfriend’s car and he was just borrowing it for the day as his car had suffered a puncture that morning. Whilst I was imagining what Gary’s head would look like with a lamp post shoved in the middle of it, I began to wonder if this problem was something that happens more often then we realise.
The police told me that it was getting more and more common for drivers to be uninsured or in Gary’s case borrowing cars from their partners without being insured on them. It makes me so angry! How can people be so stupid and let’s face it, inconsiderate to their fellow drivers?! I don’t understand it! Gary told me that he didn’t think it would be a problem driving without being insured as he was only using the car for a day and besides car insurance was getting more and more expensive. He didn’t want to waste money. Everything went a bit fuzzy after that.
It took ten minutes and the intervention of two policemen before I calmed down enough to be able to go over to Gary and explain to him that actually if you shopped around car insurance wasn’t as expensive as he thought it was. In fact I told him that if he bothered to look he could find a good car insurance quote from many different companies including supermarkets like Asda. I walked away after that as I couldn’t look at Gary’s face without thinking how good it would look with my fist planted squarely in the centre of his nose.
It just gets on my nerves. I swear to God that I’m going to kill the next driver who tells me that he doesn’t have insurance. Actually I won’t kill them, I’ll follow them closely then accidentally drive into the back of their boot and tell them I don’t have any insurance. See how they like it.
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