Apparently I'm too nice

[Clodfobble]

I got gently rear-ended yesterday. It was bumper-to-bumper traffic and the guy couldn't have been going more than 5 miles per hour. Anyway, we got out to check the damage--his car had absolutely none, and my bumper had two (pretty deep) scratches in the paint from his license plate, and that was it.

The bumper already has several similar scratches, so I told the guy not to worry about it. I don't really care about a couple more scratches; no harm, no foul.

When I got home my husband inspected the car and showed me how in actuality there was about a half inch of separation of the bumper from the car, probably a couple hundred dollars worth of damage. He didn't get too mad at me, since he himself had rear-ended someone a few months ago causing more like $3600 worth of damage (and that was just to our car,)--but he assured me that the guy was probably dancing around his house right now because I'd let him off the hook. I thought I was just being courteous, but he says being courteous would just have been politely asking for his insurance information.

So am I really the only person out there who would let a little scratch or door ding go unnoticed? Had I noticed the separation, I probably would have gotten the guy's information--but to be honest, even then I only would have done it because I would have known my husband would be pissed if I didn't. Am I just a huge pushover?