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Well, I guess this counts as a sighting of sucky employee. If I put this in the wrong place, I'm sorry. It's a long one here.
Okay. I was traveling westbound on a state highway with my sister as a passenger. It was about 845 pm. I was in the left lane. Up ahead, the road does a sort of funny thing: it splits into two ways. One way keeps you on the highway and the other way takes you onto a county highway. To get on the county highway, it's kind of a sharp turn.
I was doing my thing, at speed limit, and began to go onto the county highway. There was a truck two car lengths behind me in the right lane. Coming straight towards me is another car. At first, I couldn't believe it...what was a car doing over here, on the wrong way? Then, I dunno, I sort of went on autopilot. I hit my horn and that's when the other driver realizes that she's on the wrong way. I then evacuate the road by going to the left. We are on an embankment so I sort of had to go down and then up over the high curb. I hit about an six to eight inch curb and had to put all four tires over it to get out of this moron's way. She came two feet from hitting us head on and somehow misses the truck by driving in between us when the truck driver jerks his car three lanes over to get out of her way. She makes an immediate U-turn and drives down the state highway. All I see as I'm freaking out is the big, huge Domino's sign on her car. Truck driver makes sure we are okay and he leaves.
My sister tells me to get in the passenger seat and she drives. She's pissed. I'm freaking out and can't drive because...I dunno, it really shook me up. We get back on the road and follow her. My car starts making funny noises that it wasn't making before...I hit that curb HARD.
We call Florida Highway Patrol--FHP--and they said because "they didn't see it" they can't do anything about it. Fine. We call the nearest Dominio's and after some phone tag we find out which driver it was. The manager at the Domino's said his driver said she did it and she was "wrote up" or something for it. It was her first day, btw. We ask, "okay, what about my car? It's not acting right and I think we damaged it by trying to avoid being killed by your employee." (at that point, we are sitting on the side of the road because we don't know what's up with the car.) Boss says he'll talk to driver to see if she'll give us her info. She refuses. Manager says he can't do anything else, refuses to give us his name, and we end the call.
So, we drive to their store and sit in their parking lot. We call my insurance company and talk to them. They get a claim started and told us to call county police. We call county police, they talk to us a bit and send someone out there. Officer comes out and says he can't do much and calls FHP for us. (but he tells pizza girl she must stay until FHP arrives.) Finally FHP will come out and help us like the county officer said they should have done in the first place. Meanwhile, pizza girl is hiding in the store and she drove her car around the back so we couldn't look at it or something.
We noticed then after we got under some light that the front driver's side tire is going flat and it has a bent rim on it. I guess it's where I hit the raised curb trying to get out of the way.
It took getting FHP to come out and we had to file a police report just to get the girl to give us her insurance information. We didn't want to file a report on her and we didn't want it to go that far. So now we are talking with the girl's insurance company about repairs. I'm really hoping that it's not serious damage and it's just the rim, but it is making funny sounds...maybe it got knocked out of alignment. The tire won't stay inflated either. I don't feel safe driving it because it doesn't "feel" right anymore, if you know what I mean. All I want is for it to be fixed and my car checked over. But I can't afford to do it on my own and this is clearly not my fault, so that's why I had to get the girl's insurance info. I wish she would have just stopped to make sure we were okay or to say sorry or something!
So...yeah, that's how I was almost killed by a pizza delivery driver. Everyone at work and my family keeps telling me to write/contact Domino's and tell them what happened, but I don't know if I should. I don't know if the Domino's manager did the right things--the girl was on the job and was making a delivery. Does anyone have advice? Did I make this a bigger deal that it was? I could only imagine what those Domino's people were saying...that maybe WE were being sucky. All in all, it just really sucked.
Okay. I was traveling westbound on a state highway with my sister as a passenger. It was about 845 pm. I was in the left lane. Up ahead, the road does a sort of funny thing: it splits into two ways. One way keeps you on the highway and the other way takes you onto a county highway. To get on the county highway, it's kind of a sharp turn.
I was doing my thing, at speed limit, and began to go onto the county highway. There was a truck two car lengths behind me in the right lane. Coming straight towards me is another car. At first, I couldn't believe it...what was a car doing over here, on the wrong way? Then, I dunno, I sort of went on autopilot. I hit my horn and that's when the other driver realizes that she's on the wrong way. I then evacuate the road by going to the left. We are on an embankment so I sort of had to go down and then up over the high curb. I hit about an six to eight inch curb and had to put all four tires over it to get out of this moron's way. She came two feet from hitting us head on and somehow misses the truck by driving in between us when the truck driver jerks his car three lanes over to get out of her way. She makes an immediate U-turn and drives down the state highway. All I see as I'm freaking out is the big, huge Domino's sign on her car. Truck driver makes sure we are okay and he leaves.
My sister tells me to get in the passenger seat and she drives. She's pissed. I'm freaking out and can't drive because...I dunno, it really shook me up. We get back on the road and follow her. My car starts making funny noises that it wasn't making before...I hit that curb HARD.
We call Florida Highway Patrol--FHP--and they said because "they didn't see it" they can't do anything about it. Fine. We call the nearest Dominio's and after some phone tag we find out which driver it was. The manager at the Domino's said his driver said she did it and she was "wrote up" or something for it. It was her first day, btw. We ask, "okay, what about my car? It's not acting right and I think we damaged it by trying to avoid being killed by your employee." (at that point, we are sitting on the side of the road because we don't know what's up with the car.) Boss says he'll talk to driver to see if she'll give us her info. She refuses. Manager says he can't do anything else, refuses to give us his name, and we end the call.
So, we drive to their store and sit in their parking lot. We call my insurance company and talk to them. They get a claim started and told us to call county police. We call county police, they talk to us a bit and send someone out there. Officer comes out and says he can't do much and calls FHP for us. (but he tells pizza girl she must stay until FHP arrives.) Finally FHP will come out and help us like the county officer said they should have done in the first place. Meanwhile, pizza girl is hiding in the store and she drove her car around the back so we couldn't look at it or something.
We noticed then after we got under some light that the front driver's side tire is going flat and it has a bent rim on it. I guess it's where I hit the raised curb trying to get out of the way.
It took getting FHP to come out and we had to file a police report just to get the girl to give us her insurance information. We didn't want to file a report on her and we didn't want it to go that far. So now we are talking with the girl's insurance company about repairs. I'm really hoping that it's not serious damage and it's just the rim, but it is making funny sounds...maybe it got knocked out of alignment. The tire won't stay inflated either. I don't feel safe driving it because it doesn't "feel" right anymore, if you know what I mean. All I want is for it to be fixed and my car checked over. But I can't afford to do it on my own and this is clearly not my fault, so that's why I had to get the girl's insurance info. I wish she would have just stopped to make sure we were okay or to say sorry or something!
So...yeah, that's how I was almost killed by a pizza delivery driver. Everyone at work and my family keeps telling me to write/contact Domino's and tell them what happened, but I don't know if I should. I don't know if the Domino's manager did the right things--the girl was on the job and was making a delivery. Does anyone have advice? Did I make this a bigger deal that it was? I could only imagine what those Domino's people were saying...that maybe WE were being sucky. All in all, it just really sucked.
Guess I should learn to read ALL the posts.
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