| Personal injury: should I milk it?
Posted: 1/10/2009 10:26:19 PM | I realize it was a merely a statement. I guess though, in my humble opinion, if I was evaluating any situation to see if I had the upper hand or not, I would look at merely the facts of the situation and it would never occur to me that i could have the upper hand if i selected to manipulate the facts by being decietful. But thats just me and each to their own right?
Just my 2 cents but I think the response from users could be in part just by the nature of the title of this thread. Afterall, it wasn't "should i pursue this matter future because i dont know if i handled it right" it was asking about milking a situation, which, to at least me, means trying to get more out of something than you think you're really entitled to. Just my definition and maybe I could be off base. Who knows.
In closing, I had an experience with a broken bottle myself. Drank an bottled cream soda to only find a bunch of broken glass at the bottom of the bottle and a cut & bleeding lip. I think what i found most scary was that it was more than just a chipped bottle - it actually had fragments of broken glass in the drink which i of course didnt realize until it was too late | |
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| Personal injury: should I milk it?
Posted: 1/11/2009 1:00:16 AM |
And moonchild, you know that when I drink and post, it usually leads to something stupid
^^Not like "I" would ever be guilty of that eh OP? lmao....Merlot and the internet do not mix!
I know you are not going to persue this issue further. I was just surprised by some of the comments within this thread. Canada, the home of the land and "free". "Free" means a lot to some people. If one suffers injury, rightly so, they should be compensated. But as your post states, should I "milk" this? People can, have, and do just that. Then we wonder why we pay so much for insurance? Food chain, and someone always pays for that in the end. jmho | |
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| Personal injury: should I milk it?
Posted: 1/11/2009 5:02:30 AM |
More to the point, am I being too easy-going about this? Nah... I don't think you're being too easy-going about the whole scenario.
I do however think that your friends hit the mob mentality of seeing dollar signs... perfectly natural, 'specially in a booze induced frenzy... 
I do kinda think that the $20.00 in gift certificates is a little on the low side considering that you did actually sustain an injury... if I were the manager, I'd probably have made that $50.00 and provided a bit of a banquet for you and your friends... nothing overly elaborate, but some munchies to smooth things over a bit...
About the only thing I wouldn't have done simply because of legalities was to give a round of drinks... I don't believe an establishment is permitted to give alcohol away, but I could be mistaken in that...
I wouldn't go for more though... simply because that wouldn't be right... | |
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| Personal injury: should I milk it?
Posted: 1/11/2009 5:33:18 AM | Kind of confused in how your initial post says the glass had a crack in it. In another you mentioned the bar was dark and they may not have noticed it. But as things progress it now seems it is not a crack but a chip, and not a small chip. A 1/4" triangle chip in a shot glass is something I am sure I would have noticed before downing the shot, being that is one eigth the height of the shot glass. If the bar was dark and you noticed some blood on the glass but yet you couldn't see a 1/4" chunk missing from the glass, had you pursued it further I think your testimony might be questioned. Granted had the sobriety level not been up to par imparing your eyesight, then it opens up another can of worms in the bar overserving you guys perhaps.
God all this talk of booze and drinking has me pondering adding some Bailey's to my coffee this morning! Which one of my favourite chipped coffee cups shall I use?  | |
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| Personal injury: should I milk it?
Posted: 1/11/2009 8:26:32 AM | Crack, chip. It was broken. And my imperial isn't that good, so I just grabbed a tape measure. It was probably more like an eighth, and I didn't stare at it before drinking. Am I swearing an affidavit here? The bar area is dark, which is why I said it would be difficult for the bartender to notice. Where we were was actually the stage (busy night, limited seating), and is fairly well lit.
As far as noticing it, again, group of friends, toasting my birthday. One assumes that a glass would be intact, so one does not examine in detail. Shots are downed, not sipped, so not much opportunity to notice it there either.
As far as the amount, I'm sure the manager was panicked and didn't have a lot of time to think about it. Had I been upset, I'm sure he would have done more, but as I said, I was trying to calm him down. I might be a hot-head, but in a situation where everyone else starts to freak out, I'm usually the one with a cool head.
This is getting ridiculous. I've spent an order of magnitude more time explaining this than the actual event took. 1 second to down the shot, a couple minutes of bleeding overlapping with 3 or 4 minutes talking to the manager and another 3 or 4 talking about why I didn't freak out. Less than ten minutes of real-life has turned into hours of interweb drama, and far more frustrating the incident itself.
I'm not going after the bar - you guys owe me  for the pain and suffering.  | |
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| Personal injury: should I milk it?
Posted: 1/11/2009 6:36:27 PM | | Well since I have no immediate plans to be in your area, all I can offer up is virtual . And since the virtual stuff is not hard on the pocketbook, I'll buy you one for your pain, one for your suffering, and two for your birthday. Cheers. | |
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| Personal injury: should I milk it?
Posted: 1/11/2009 7:36:22 PM |
Well since I have no immediate plans to be in your area, all I can offer up is virtual . And since the virtual stuff is not hard on the pocketbook, I'll buy you one for your pain, one for your suffering, and two for your birthday. Cheers.
Be sure to check for cracks/chips. | |
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| Personal injury: should I milk it?
Posted: 1/14/2009 7:09:37 AM | | Me personally if it was my local hang out I would take it for what it was an honest mistake. If its an establishment that you like to frequent then why push it. They were apologetic and tried to make some restitution. | |
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| Personal injury: should I milk it?
Posted: 1/14/2009 8:59:01 AM | I witnessed a proffesional wrestler friend of some fame deliberately try the same stunt. He chipped a glass himself and cut his lip and bragged to his friends as to what he was about to do. He made quite a fuss over it to the waitress and manager and everyone around him demanding retribution.
Needless to say we booted him out of our singles social group on his ass. His career went down the tubes as well as word spread of his behaviour with that incident and others. Nobody likes a crybaby and even worse a crybaby who makes a mountain out of a mole hill.
I've got a 10" scar down my back after a suffering major fall in a church. Faulty structure and rotting wood caused a section of a support structure I was standing on to collapse. I fell 8' and ripped open my back. My grandfather had installed that structure 80 years before and it had held until it rotted away from water damage. I never gave it a thought to sue or file insurance claims. It was part of my doing business. My fault for not looking at what I was standing on was still safe. Sh1t happens. Suck it up man.
Perhaps your friends were actually testing you to see if you could take it like a man. | |
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