This week at Bodymatters, we noticed a bizarre trend. A sociological phenomenon, if you will. Almost every person who walked through our doors for help and an estimate had one thing in common, a beard! 🧔🏻♂️
Yes, beards. Big, small, well groomed, questionable… even a few on the ladies (hey, no judgment, it’s 2025 and we fully support personal grooming choices). Now I cant talk because I sit firmly into ‘can’t grow a beard for toffee’ category.
But that wasn’t the only thing they had in common. Oh no.
At least three quarters of these fine, bearded individuals had suffered the same tragic fate…
🔹 They’d been hit in a car park.
🔹 No note. 🔹 No witnesses.
🔹 And because the universe has a cruel sense of humour, no cameras!
Sigh 😮💨
So, as we always do, we put on our therapist hats and got to work:
1️⃣ Listening – because, let’s be honest, sometimes you just need to rant about how useless the world is.
2️⃣ Assessing the damage – ranging from “That’ll buff out” to “Yeah, that’s going to need some serious TLC.”
3️⃣ Offering solutions, including:
A free polish if the damage was minor, because we’re nice like that.
Sorting it through insurance while saving them up to £500 on their excess (because why pay full whack when you don’t have to?).
Offering a fair repair price for those who’d rather just pay and move on with their lives.
But it did get me thinking…
🚗 Is driving getting worse?
📱 Are people too distracted, treating driving like a side quest while scrolling TikTok? (Sorry Facebook)
🚙 Are cars now just too big for the parking spaces designed in the 80s, back when a Ford Fiesta was considered “a decent-sized car”?
Or and hear me out, is there some secret underground league of invisible car park assassins, hell-bent on dinging doors of bearded folk and vanishing before anyone notices?
So, what do you reckon? Are people getting worse at driving, or are car parks just a modern-day battlefield? Let’s hear it! ⬇️
