by Sue Painter
(confidentmarketer.com)
A Car Wash Funny Insurance Claim In Tennessee
This is an actual true story, and yes, the insurance company did pay the claim.
A good friend of mine drove her week-old new car through a car wash at a gas station in Nashville, Tennessee, that she has frequented for many years.
Once a week she drives her car through and has done so for years. On this occasion, she drove her brand new car into the wash and noticed that the system was making a funny bumping sound that she had not heard before.
Upon exiting, exactly one-half of her brand new car was dented with hundreds of dents, from end to end. She went into the gas station to report what had occurred and when she and the owner went out to look at the car wash, there was a jump rope with heavy handles on both ends wrapped up in the apparatus that travels over the car.
Apparently, the SUV that had gone through the wash just before her had a jump rope left on top of it, and the machine had scooped it up and there it was, waiting to beat the heck out of the next car.
Needless to say, my friend was more than a little upset. The car wash owner’s insurance company was very snotty about it and refused to pay, but her own insurance company did pay – thousands of dollars in damages to a brand new car.
~Sue