So today I took my car in for its 60,000km service and don’t ask me how or why but somehow I didn’t see the big yellow pole just as you drive in to the drop off point and ended up scrapping the whole side of my car against it!!!
The little man checking in the cars was as surprised as I was I think – I mean how on earth do you manage to miss a large yellow pole? Well I am here to tell you it is possible.
After surveying the damage – ugly yellow smears all across the passengers side of my car – I turned to the little man and asked him if there was anyway we could fix that without my husband having to know. And turns out we can, cause when I turned up to collect my car in the afternoon not only were the scratches all gone, but the nice man assured me that I had not been charged and there was no evidence of my mishap on the car service statement either.
Looks like a dodged a bullet there – big sigh of relief!!!
5 minutes more please 
YAY for this super nice man! My momma killed a pole at Mc D. once and fixed the bumper with black shoe polish…my dad never noticed the scratch :o)
Hahahahahahaha that was good thinking 😉😉
that is so great! hurray for that nice man!
Thank you he was lovely
Sure hope he doesn’t read your blog! I can say anything on mine. H doesn’t read it unless I print it out and shove it under his nose! LOL One time my son’s girlfriends rabbit ate the top of the buttons off the TV remote. He has never questioned why those buttons are now flat. Six years ago! HAHA Men are not very observant! ~Elle
Hahahahaha Yep thank goodness they are not too observant 😉
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This was great! No, men are not always observant. This may inspire a post sometime later this week. Thanks for the laugh today! ~Elle
This is an amusing story. I have to say though that it was me I would probably eventually told my husband about it…at some time after there was a little distance from the event. But that was our relationship. Ultimately we kept very little from one another, although we were not necessarily forthcoming immediately.
I will probably tell him, It is much easier now that the damage has been fixed. Either way I’m sure he would have been ok with it – but I felt bad for my stupidity – how could I not see the stupid pole?
You can’t be too hard on yourself. I think everybody has moments like that; I know I sure have.
Rubbing Compound has saved many marriages. Why don’t they make those poles
Out of plastic…
I do agree they should be plastic 😉
Wow, that was nice of him! I bet you will always remember where that pole is from now on! lol
Yes I won’t forget it now 😊😊
First – very nice man at the station to do that.
Second – for all the posts about husbands not knowing; how do you know? Maybe they are ‘observant’ but magnanimous.
Third – I didn’t ‘see’ one of those on the passenger side at a gas station and dented in the door of the car.
I think you are right about husbands being observant but magnanimous, my husband would have been ok I think – not thrilled, but he is lovely like that and let’s me get away with a lot. I hope you didn’t do too much damage to your car.
Ha ha ha!! Cheeky!
Sounds like you charmed the man at the garage 🙂
Hahahahahahaha 😉
Short form:
What husband’s don’t know…everything.
—every wife everywhere
Hahahahahahaha true very true 😜😜
((((((((((((((((((((( indeed, do you think I never had an “oops” fixed before taking a car home. Why I have a small tool collection and and a DC to AC power converter for small electric tools in trunk. )))))))))))))))
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Intersting Nut! I thought we never keep any secrects!
On Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 5 minutes more please wrote:
> dianaroggenbuckebrown posted: “So today I took my car in for its > 60,000km service and don’t ask me how or why but somehow I didn’t see the > big yellow pole just as you drive in to the drop off point and ended up > scrapping the whole side of my car against it!!!The little man checking in > “
Oops of course we don’t xxx
hahahahhaha! That’s just awesome Diana!!! I’m dying laughing over that – but what a great co-conspirator you had!!
Thanks Kate, yes I was very lucky 😉😉
I had to comment on this one.
Women women……is he every going to know?
There´s a saying here in Spain that if I translate it to English doesn´t rhyme as it does in Spanish but it goes roughly like this ” Woman behind the wheel constant trouble” 😉
Hahahahahahaha sounds like that Spanish saying was written about me 😉
Seems women in all countries, or at least in western ones do have somethings in common
Sure do 😉
Yes, they all lie to their husbands!!! 😉
Only little white lies, they don’t really count 😉😉
O.K, I´ll give you that
So it is true! Sometimes, it is the things we don’t know or reveal that makes for a happy marriage.
Hahahahaha sure is 😉