The Good, the Sweet, the Ugly and the Crook – Blast From The Past

What a day, Friday the 29^th of March 2007 was. This was a day that I will never forget –  a day which had me coming into direct contact with so many different aspects of human nature? Some of them were good experiences and some of them not so good. One minute I’m cussing the world, the next it isn’t such a bad place after all. This is my story of how four  people and four different situations effected my day…

The Good

Well the good one was  my girlfriend. I had at some moment in time stashed away £400 in a safe place, which I had totally forgotten about and for reasons that I cant quite remember. She had been doing a bit of spring-cleaning and came across the money inside my sunglasses case. She handed me the money and said, “have you forgottn about this”. It was a good surprise to find that money and good that she gave it back to me.

The Sweet

Whilst driving along the road I noticed a pretty young lady patiently waiting at a zebra crossing so she could get across the road. I done what drivers are meant to do, I showed a bit of courtesy and stopped, she give a big sweet smile, waved her hand and said thank you. It’s amazing how the simplest gestures can make you feel good about life.

The Ugly

I was walking along the road heading to my favourite local bakery, to get my Friday treat of some Aberdeen Rowies, when two of the ugliest people in the world, {three  if you include their dog} were walking along the road arguing with each other, drinking WKD and letting the dog crap all over the pavement. I thought to myself where are those great public servants they call community police officers when they are needed, {probably hiding round the corner till the coast is clear}.

The Crook

A few weeks ago I had the misfortune of crashing into a Chinese woman driver, It happened like this, I was driving along a main road, she approached from a side road, she stopped at the give way sign like your meant to do, but she only stopped for 1 second and then pulled straight out in front of me when I was about 5 feet away from her. Luckily one of us was alert and I managed to do an emergency stop, which I was proud of, because of my awareness and good driving skills I very gently crashed into the side of her car. We got out of our cars, she apologised for not concentrating … she couldn’t see for the sun etc, Ms China  said she would forward her insurance details on to me.

Her insurance details finally arrived today, only three weeks after the incident took place; I also had to send her two letters asking why she hadn’t forwarded me her details. I phoned up her insurance company to find out what the procedure was for claiming for the damage to my car.

You guessed it! The crook claims its all my fault for crashing into her, maybe in China it works like that, but you’re in the UK now. It gets even better! I go and phone my insurance company and get some robot in a call centre in India, asking me why it isn’t my fault, they had her version of the crash, bearing in mind that they haven’t even asked me any details about the accident yet. Things get better when I get to talk to a real person in the UK instead of a robot  like Indian.

It was an interesting day, which had a happy ending because I had saved a couple of rowies from earlier, which I toasted and then ate with a chilled bottle of Indian beer called Cobra, before I went to bed! At least my day had a GOOD ending!

The Good, the Sweet, the Ugly and the Crook … what a crazy day that was. This article was first published on my very first blog ’2 Million Dollar Bills’, a wonderful blog which is sadly no longer live … RIP.

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