Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Man escapes dog by jumping on my car while in the school parking lot

Recent events have made me more excited than ever about the upcoming school year, and I saw myself visiting my classroom to set things up every day so far this week. Sadly, I'm not nearly actually ready for the year to begin (I'm only about a third of the way through my summer reading book, the one the History department and I chose together for our students to share, and still need to read more and finalize my second semester) but am still excited for it to begin. My classroom is looking good (I never have the same room arrangement for consecutive years) and I'm going to swap out some posters by the end of the week.

On Monday, a pit bull was running around our school and a father picking up his son from football practice jumped on the hood of my car to escape an attack. It dented. Thankfully he left a note and will be paying the deductible. I spent much of the day today getting estimates. I feel kind of bad about having him pay the entire $250 deductible and might split it with him (it wasn't his fault a pit bull was attacking people at my school, after all). Anyhow, that was an exciting start to the school year, I guess.

3 comments:

Christie said...

That is such a crazy story! But it's perfectly Baltimore in a way too. It seems like every school year starts off with some sort car issue for me as well.

Broadsheet said...

There shouldn't be a deductible if he files the claim with HIS insurance. I accidentally dinged my neighbor's left quarter panel backing up a few weeks ago, and it was going to cost $800 to repair. I filed a claim with my insurance company, and since it was damage to HER car - my deductible didn't apply - it fell under my liability coverage. It shouldn't have any effect on my rate either.

Shiela said...

That's a wonderful start!
And what more can you ask for he was courteous enough to left a note and pay,that's really nice.