I was stopped at a stop light – 2nd in line. The car in front of me put their car into reverse – I didn’t do anything. A second later, they were still in reverse – so I got ready to honk the horn in case they started to move backwards. Then they did start to reverse – so I laid into the horn. The woman driving started to look around – left, right – but still kept coming. The results are above.
She got out and apologized, explaining that she’s lost and trying to get to the hospital to get her mother or something. Not really my concern, but whatever. I told her to turn the corner and pull over, since we were blocking the lane we were in. I got her info, and she was very emphatic about going to get her mother and dealing with this later. I told her we would talk later, and as she drove off, I called the police. A few minutes later, they were there, listened to my tale of woe, and took my and her info.
Since we had exchanged phone numbers, she called me twice – once to make sure she hadn’t erased it, and the second time to find out why I had “lied” to her – by calling the police, I apparently broke some sort of promise between us. I don’t remember that – I remember telling her that we would talk later. She was very upset and doing lots of yelling, so I didn’t really understand what she was saying – except that she was apparently coming back to the scene.
When she did arrive, she came from down the road, and I didn’t recall seeing her pull up. She glared at me as she walked by, and then went to the police officers. After a minute or two, the responding officer brought my paperwork and notes back, gave me my case number, and told me that she hadn’t wanted to hang around because she was….. driving with a suspended license. At this point, I drove off – cranky, but able to move still, so happy for that – the last accident I had resulted in a car that I didn’t really feel safe driving in.
Fast forward to today – four days later. After making a few calls, getting the insurance company’s estimate, getting my own estimate, and making more calls, I got a voicemail this afternoon from my insurance agent. Their auto-accident person was calling me back – I had asked for help figuring out which of the many companies with the same name she was actually using for her insurance. It turns out she doesn’t have insurance. Of course.
Now, look, I’m not saying that she didn’t have to go get her mother or whatever. But if you’re license is suspended, and you don’t have insurance, DON’T DRIVE YOUR CAR. Simple, straightforward, and easy. With my last incident, I’m waiting for the insurance company to “subrogate” the claim – meaning that if they ever manage to get money from him, and we all know it will take more than a couple of weeks – then I’ll eventually get my deductible back. Maybe.
AWESOME.
My wife watches the show, her best friend wants to be them, and my neice is obsessed with them. And now they won’t leave the headlines. First he’s cheating on her, then she’s cheating on him… Who cares? (And yes, I see the irony in perpetuating their media juggernaut by embedding a link to buy their first two seasons).
Raymond, and 
lee 05:33 on 2007/11/04 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Been paying our cablevision bill online for years now. Just send it from your bank — all you need to give your bank is the account number and an address. And that way you can control when it gets paid (they changed the due date on us so I make sure it’s six days late every month now. No penalty for it, so why not?)
Raymond 22:18 on 2008/05/23 Permalink | Log in to Reply
It’s May 23, 2008 approx 10:04. I had an all out conversation w/cablevision today that chimes along this complaint. I will be contacting B.B. on Monday.
I’m glad you didn’t let them run over you!
They’re trying to do that to me right now.
I’ll give you the short version: In 2002 I signed up for Cablevision service. Later that year I had to move to Florida. Had all my services terminated, gave new addresses ext.. and had the post office forward my mail. Yeah… Well I received my last bill from ConEd (forwarded to Fl/last bill received/last bill paid…thank u come again!) Same for Discover Card, same for Gas Company…great.
I move back to New York 2/28/08 call cablevision, and their first question was, have you had cable w/us before. I said “yes”…they say…r u sure, we can’t find you in our system. They ask for address, dates/years/ and finally Social Sec. #. STILL NO RECORDS…
Well, does that mean I can’t get service? “No” They say! We’ll be happy to give you the moon and stars! Yes.triple play is the deal, RIGHT??? WRONG
I get my 2nd bill and it’s 700.00 plus dollars??!!!
Yeah…
Apparently, they “FOUND” my old account and simply added it to my current account.
I haven’ heard from these people in so so many years and they told me they don’t “FORWARD” bills.
And, I have never heard of any bill collectors. I’ve pulled my credit several times over the past 5-7 years and nothing about any cable.
Last night, my cable was interupted. They told me in order to have “services restored, I must pay min of $509.00 which is “PAST DUE” from 2002????
I’m sorry what?
Yeah, I’ll be writing to the BB and Cablevision president. I even offered to make out a payment plan on this OLD OLD OLD balance and continue to pay my reg. monthly on top of it. Ms. Supervisor, stated that “Cablevision doesn’t work out payment plans!”
Can you amagine?
So, Cablevision, doesn’t forward bills, they have incompitent Bill Collectors, they initially don’t have my ‘old account’…but now they do…they add it to my NEW account and disconnect me because they want the past due of $509.00 from 2002??
Yeah…till Monday…stay tuned any advise, please email me @
Neo_32605@yahoo.com
FIGHT BACK!