scary!

[petrefax]

just got home from a trip to hertfordshire for a meeting

halfway home driving along the M4 in a brand new shiny hire car, not going particularly fast cos it was a nice day & i took some CDs with me - a loose chipping got...well...loose, and hit my windscreen :EEK:

scared the beejesus out of me, and left a nice crack in the windscreen, which started off quite small but slowly started growing - ended up approx 9 inches by the time i got back to cardiff (by which time i was driving at the speed of an asthmatic snail trying to avoid making it worse)

i'm gonna be soooo not popular tomorrow when i tell my boss her budget is gonna be stung for a replacement windscreen by the hire co ops:

anyone know of any IT training jobs going in south wales perchance??

[Rave]

Bad luck mate. Not much you could have done about it though. Surely you'll only have to pay the excess on the hire car? It was only about £50 when I hired a car a few years ago.

Rich :¬)

[shiato storm]

yeah cause technically was nout you could have done about it really was there

[TechnoKitty]

The hire company will just have to pay the excess, and I don't think your boss will have to pay anything, cos its not really your fault. I hate it when things hit the screen though, its really scary!

[Flibb]

Nearly s#*t myself when i had a pigeon hit the top of the screen, head on and I was doing about 60mph. It impacted tight on the top, sort of half on the screen half on the roof.

[kryptonic]

pwed

[GreenPiggy]

A lot of times windscreen damage is covered without excess. You may get lucky.

[Moonshade]

A lot of times windscreen damage is covered without excess. You may get lucky.

Yeah you might get lucky!

[petrefax]

dunno what excess (if any) there is as yet, but no bother at work - the company cars dept didn't bat an eyelid when i told them, which made me a bit happier tbh