Well I am about 80-90% moved into my new house. Things have been going pretty good. Auburn lost to USC(they forgot how to tackle)but life is generally ok except for one thing. I HAVE THE WORST LUCK. I will go into this saying that the pure chances of someone having as much bad luck as me is way beyond human thinking. We are looking some odds that astronomy or a Cray won't help us set.
First of all Walmart is the main cause of my bad luck. I was at Walmart about a week ago and I went in to get a few things with my cousin. I come out and see a large dent in my driver's side door. A buggy either ran down the parking lot and hit my door or someone pushed a buggy into it. I went inside and got a manager and he came out and took pictures and filed a claim with Walmart's insurance company. The reason I think Walmart is liable is because this is a new Walmart and they either neglected or overlooked adding buggy return to the bottom half of the parking lot. This means any buggys in the middle or bottom roll into a car or a concrete median.
I took my own pictures of the numerous carts scattered about(50-100)and the lack of any employees gathering carts. All in all Walmart has been really nice about it, but they are investigating to see if they will cover the damage or not. I know they have the disclaimer about shopping cart damage but so what? Couldn't they have disclaimers about whether or not you will get mugged in their parking lot, but I digress.
Next incident involves a trip to Walmart to get a crescent wrench. My friend was going to take my nitrous bottle home with him and get it filled on the way to his work the next day and then bring it by. I let him drive and we start heading down my subdivision's road. This is a brand new area so the roads still have gaps where the sewer covers are. Also people love to park on the curb so you are forced to ride over the sewer covers. Well due to the unfortunate sewer covers and the amount of cars on the curb you can only go about 5-10 MPH. We were doing around 10 and one of the sewer covers we drove over wasn't secure. It decided it wanted to dent my muffler and break the right half of my offroad h-pipe and jerk the exhaust onto the street.
Of course this made a noise that can be only described as a small ANFO explosion. The neighbors come out and are asking if everyone is ok. They see the misplaced sewer cover and tell me that they have been bitching at the city/county since they moved in to have the covers secured and the road paved to match up to them. Sucks for me.
Anyways, I now have to have my car towed because the exhaust is hanging down and there is no way to rig the exhaust up until I could get it to a place to be welded. Plus the lack of a muffler could present a challenge to me because my city has a noise ordinance. So I am out the cost of the muffler, towing, labor and any new piping that must be put in. I have a police accident report but good luck to me on getting the corrupt Birmingham Water/Sewer works or the City of Hoover to pay. Why should they? Driver beware eh?
Well maybe Walmart will decide to pay my claim and maybe the city/county will not blow me off. Who knows. Money I don't want to spend and money I didn't plan to spend.
Walmart is the devil and I urge that you carefully consider any irrational trips there unless you are planning to have a streak of bad luck. What can I say? There has to be some abstract way to look at this and figure why Walmart is so evil and why I am receiving their bad karma.
First of all Walmart is the main cause of my bad luck. I was at Walmart about a week ago and I went in to get a few things with my cousin. I come out and see a large dent in my driver's side door. A buggy either ran down the parking lot and hit my door or someone pushed a buggy into it. I went inside and got a manager and he came out and took pictures and filed a claim with Walmart's insurance company. The reason I think Walmart is liable is because this is a new Walmart and they either neglected or overlooked adding buggy return to the bottom half of the parking lot. This means any buggys in the middle or bottom roll into a car or a concrete median.
I took my own pictures of the numerous carts scattered about(50-100)and the lack of any employees gathering carts. All in all Walmart has been really nice about it, but they are investigating to see if they will cover the damage or not. I know they have the disclaimer about shopping cart damage but so what? Couldn't they have disclaimers about whether or not you will get mugged in their parking lot, but I digress.
Next incident involves a trip to Walmart to get a crescent wrench. My friend was going to take my nitrous bottle home with him and get it filled on the way to his work the next day and then bring it by. I let him drive and we start heading down my subdivision's road. This is a brand new area so the roads still have gaps where the sewer covers are. Also people love to park on the curb so you are forced to ride over the sewer covers. Well due to the unfortunate sewer covers and the amount of cars on the curb you can only go about 5-10 MPH. We were doing around 10 and one of the sewer covers we drove over wasn't secure. It decided it wanted to dent my muffler and break the right half of my offroad h-pipe and jerk the exhaust onto the street.
Of course this made a noise that can be only described as a small ANFO explosion. The neighbors come out and are asking if everyone is ok. They see the misplaced sewer cover and tell me that they have been bitching at the city/county since they moved in to have the covers secured and the road paved to match up to them. Sucks for me.
Anyways, I now have to have my car towed because the exhaust is hanging down and there is no way to rig the exhaust up until I could get it to a place to be welded. Plus the lack of a muffler could present a challenge to me because my city has a noise ordinance. So I am out the cost of the muffler, towing, labor and any new piping that must be put in. I have a police accident report but good luck to me on getting the corrupt Birmingham Water/Sewer works or the City of Hoover to pay. Why should they? Driver beware eh?
Well maybe Walmart will decide to pay my claim and maybe the city/county will not blow me off. Who knows. Money I don't want to spend and money I didn't plan to spend.
Walmart is the devil and I urge that you carefully consider any irrational trips there unless you are planning to have a streak of bad luck. What can I say? There has to be some abstract way to look at this and figure why Walmart is so evil and why I am receiving their bad karma.
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