>>>and once in Wellingborough when someone bashed into the car in a car park while we were shopping.
>
>At which point they no doubt observed the latest 11th Commandment "Thou shalt not be caught." People are wonderful.
>
>I crashed a hire car on ice in that cold snap earlier this year. Glad to have insurance, I can tell you- everything to do with cars seems ridiculously expensive and people expect to replace entire wings rather than mending a scrape.

I have become good friends with my next door neighbors and their toddler. (He doesn't talk much yet but I said just wait, he will). Allison backed into Allie's car one night this winter and left a note on the windshield saying so. It has a Wisconsin plate so she had no idea whose car it was. She just did the right thing.

I am not going to draw conclusions but Allie's car was banged up again in front of her apartment in Milwaukee, this time much more severely. No note, no number.