drive yourself crazy....

[RICHARD]

we've talked about burning food and some other stuff....

let's talk about our WORST driving experiences!!!

it could be the day it rained coffee (you left your coffee
on the roof), the day you locked your keys in the car,
or that mad dash to the hospital when the little one was due....


two rules, you have to mention a car. number 2, no ragging on
spouses or BF/GF's driving!

[ParNone]

Back in college I was driving an ole junker volkswagon bug, which had a hole in the back floorboard. I was headed home, driving on the freeway, with the window rolled down, on a day where we’d had a lot of rain. I came off the freeway doing about 60 mph onto the feeder street, not the wisest of speeds even on a bright sunshiny day, but it's really not advisable on rainy days. Especially in Houston, where it floods at the drop of a hat. You’d of thought living in Houston all my life, I’d have been more aware of this fact, but I was too busy bee bopping along to the music on the radio, to notice that the feeder street was quite flooded.

It probably would have been shock enough just to hit the water going that fast, but I barely had time to register that fact, when a wave of water broke over my head, coming from the hole in the back floorboard and another wave came crashing in on me from the window. I was drenched from head to toe. Looked like a drowned rat, but unharmed as I floated across the water to dry land and drove on home.

Par…

[Kfamr]

lmao that's hilarious par... love the sig too..


Since i don't drive, i don't have any stories to tell...

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Kfamr


Since i don't drive, i don't have any stories to tell...


does that mean you never have been a passenger???

those stories count....:)

[Desert Arabian]

Well, since I am too young to drive, I personally don't have any bad driving experiences, but I have been a "witness", I guess you could say, to some bad driving experiences.

One bad experience happened about two years ago. My mom and I were driving down an on-ramp to get on to the I-94 freeway. We went over some black ice, and the van went out of control. We spun around about 5 times, can came to a stop facing the opposite direction. We were about 2 inches away from tumbling down an extremely steep hill. After I settled down, I looked out the window, to watch an old man, I'd say around 70 years old, drive past us at 30 mph (remember, this is an on ramp) in his Cadillac and shake his finger at us like we did it on purpose. :mad: :mad: :mad:

A second bad experience was when I saw a fawn get hit by a car. I was 10 years old, and my dad and I were driving home in his Suburban. There was a big field along side the road, and I spotted a doe and her baby running in the field. I noticed she made a sharp turn for the road, WOOSH! A car (don't know what kind) sped past us. I got a really bad feeling about the deer, so I looked in the rear-view mirror; to see the doe run in front of the car...she made it. A couple of seconds later the fawn runs out in the road, and tried to jump over the car hood. I saw its back legs hit the car and it did a summer salt. I went hysterical and started screaming, "Daddy, daddy, the deer got hit by a car." So, he turned around and went back to the spot where the deer was hit. You could see, where the fawn had dragged itself in the woods. About 2 minutes later the driver came back and he told my dad he had no clue he hit a deer, his dad saw a blur in front of the windshield and told him to turn around. Anyways, we called the police to come out, because we still knew the poor deer was alive. About 30 MINUTES LATER a police officer shows up, and we all tracked the deer about 400 yards back in the woods. It was stuck in a swampy like pond, and couldn't swim because its back legs-no details- to keep it clean- my dad ended its pain and suffering. OI! That one I will never forget, never forgot any of the details, since I was 10. :( :( :(

So yeah, those are my bad driving experiences.

Let me add a funny one, that I just remembered. My mom took me to the chiropractor, and she was turing into a parking space, when she hit a parked car. HA HA HA HA HA HA ! It was so embarrasing, because it was right infront of the office, and everyone in the waiting room saw it. LOL! :p :D :p Ma paid for the damages , by the way- it was just a scratch.

[Kfamr]

Well... There's been several coffee showers for the car lost of locking the key in the car too lol...

When i was little little my mom had drove to 7eleven and ran in with me still in the car, the car running, ac running, radio, and windows up... locking the keys in the car. When she came back out, she realized her accident. I was sound asleep. This guy, who didn't even know me or my mother was freaking out saying "Oh my gosh, do you want me to break the window!?!? Do you want me to call the cops?? Do you want me to break into the car?!?" My mom just looked at him weird and was like "uhh...no she's sound asleep!" So my mom called my dad to bring the extra set of keys to unlock the car :p

[NoahsMommy]

That was funny Par!!! :)

No stories where I was the driver, I tend to block those ones out. ;)

But....when I was in highschool, we used to go for drives. ALWAYS in areas we most likely weren't allowed to go. There were four of us in the car on the 101, about half way home from Santa Barbara. We got off at an exit for some reason and noticed they were doing road constrution. (You know, I have a sneaky suspicion we DITCHED school that day. ;) ) We wanted to see what they were doing. So, off we went, onto a dirt road in our friend's new Ford Escort. We came upon a construction truck and pulled onto the shoulder to get out of his way...well, at the same time, we got lots of mud on the front of his truck!!

We kept going towards the end of the dirt road and turned back. That truck we got all dirty was seeking revenge!! He sped along right next to us and COVERED the car we were in. We couldn't see out ANY of the windows!

It was too funny. The person who owned the car got in so much trouble...her dad took the car in for an oil change and found mud all over the under carriage! :D

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

o.k.... if I tell this story don't laugh...

In my old car I had the keyless entry... WELLLLLL... the battery went dead and I stood there thinking HOW AM I GONNA GET IN MY CAR NOW?.... It took me a few minutes before DUH!! USE THE KEY!!!!:rolleyes:

And .... I can't tell you HOW MANY TIMES ... I would lock my keys in the car while it was running when I got to work. BUT ... my husband worked on my same shift then, and he would have to come down and unlock it with his spare key....


hmmm... lemme think if there is any more...:)

[wolfsoul]

Well, one bad experience was when I was seven, and my mom's ex boyfriend (who was still with her at the time :mad: ) was driving me to my grandpa's campsite....we saw a little dark- coloured squirrel start to go across the road, and I told him to watch out for it...
Well, he speeded up just in time to run over it :( On purpose...:( I was so crushed :(

Once, when I was probably about 9 or 10, my dad was really drunk and he drove me all across town....it was around Christmas time, and my stepmom told him that we would have had to go through 8 road blocks to get to her work but we didn't :confused: When my stepmom found us at her work, she flipped and started crying...
In the morning, my dad didn't remember anything and my stepmom was still crying because she was afraid that I wouldn't be allowed to go over there after that...I haven't liked my dad drunk ever since...

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

Kelly's story reminded me of this one...

Me and my friend, Jamie wanted to skip school but we didn't have a car .. so we asked this boy to drive us around ... we (I HAVE NO IDEA WHY) went driving around in these muddy woods. He drove a Ford Tempo... and told us it wouldn't get stuck cause it was front wheel drive.. WELL needless to say we got stuck and he made US get out to push... after I ruined my clothes me and Jamie decided we would go walk and find a phone to call someone... By the time we got to a gas station we decided to ditch him and just go home. We got some guys from school (I guess they were ditching too) to give us a ride home... THEN THE BOY CALLED JAMIE'S MOM... she ended up paying a tow truck to tow him out and bought him lunch... Jamie got grounded and luckily for me.. no one ever told my mom.

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by Sara luvs her Tinky
o.k.... if I tell this story don't laugh...

I have lots of those stories!! ;)

I was driving a rental car about a month ago...oooh! Another story!! Anyway, I was driving a Ford Focus. OK, I don't want to sound prissy when I saw this, its just what I'm used to. I had to fill it up with gas before I returned it, so I sat there looking for the little gas door release. I couldn't find it, so I got out the owners manual. Couldn't find it. I finally went the attendant and asked for his help. You KNOW I looked like a stupid blonde to him! ;) He walked to the side of the car and OPENED the little door thing. DUH!!!! That's how you opened it!

OK, the REASON I had to get a rental car:

I was driving home after a stupid Mary Kay party...ie: pressure to be a consultant..ick! We share a garage with our neighbors and they...uh...don't park straight! I overcompensated for their side and the stupid garage jumped out and hit the side of my car! Can you believe it? The garage was fine, my car on the other hand, was in the shop for a week!!

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by Sara luvs her Tinky
He drove a Ford Tempo...
Ford Tempo! That was my best friend's car and I have ANOTHER story!!! :D
We literally drove that car to its grave! We wanted Taco Bell one summer afternoon and her car was almost dead. I mean, it wouldn't go more than 5 mph. Taco Bell was at least a mile or two away. It was hilarous!! We drove that car there, the whole time it made horrible noises, like it was indeed dying. I think it took us at least a half hour....we laughed so hard that entire drive, our stomachs hurt and we were crying.

Ah...memories!!! I loved being a careless kid!!

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

LOL*
Kelly... those stories are soooo funny!

Heres another for me...

Me and my friend Jamie again... were driving in her mom's Geo Storm... and we were wanting dairy queen.. and she FLEW into the parking lot and hit the curb and the tire literally BLEW UP... her mom was sooooo furious!! She had to call AAA to have them come fix the tire...

hmmm still thinking...:)

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

o.k... heres another...

One day I was coming home from work and I was driving down I75.... every day between 4:00 and 5:00 the traffic gets TERRIBLE where 675 merges onto 75.. and this is also where the cops have a speed trap and sit behind a cement median... Well I KNEW I should have slowed down.. BUT I didn't and he got me.. I pulled up and pulled over and I swear the traffic jam was about 1000 feet ahead.. and in a matter of minutes the traffic was next to me and backed up well behind me sooooooo all those people were just sitting there STARING at me... and it takes cops FOREVER to write your tickets out... so that was pretty embarassing. :rolleyes:

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by Sara luvs her Tinky
the tire literally BLEW UP
Sara!! I have a feeling that if this were the telephone, we could talk for HOURS!!! ;)

OK...our friend came out from New Jersey to visit. This was about the time of the OJ trial and we wanted to show her OJ's place. Well...we saw it and were driving up his street (dark and curvy) to return home. Some popular song came on the radio and all five of us were singing our little hearts out. When...all the sudden a CURBED jumped out and hit is! OK, not really, my friend wasn't paying attention and we did the same thing! The tire burst and we had to drive on it to the nearest gas station.

So here we are, five girls out at some godawful hour at a gas station trying to figure out how to get the stupid tire fixed. The attendant wasn't allowed to leave his little booth (jerk) and wouldn't help us. Someone else helped us finally. :D

[mugsy]

Ok, here goes....the trip from hell as my friend and I refer to it!!

My best friend and I were driving from Fort Wayne to Virginia to see my sister. I was driving a Chevette (which I really liked). We were driving on hwy 33 coming up to Columbus, Ohio and I asked my friend which way to go on 270 around Columbus and she proceeded to turn the map upside down and said, "Turn right." I about killed her!! I grabbed the map and figured it out myself. We still laugh at that.

After we got around Columbus, we stopped at a rest area to eat the picnic dinner we had packed. When we got back into the car, the alternator light came on. I didn't know what to do, so I kept driving. When we got to Zanesville, Ohio, we stopped at a Shell station to see what to do and I ran into the biggest redneck in the universe, who continually called me honey. Finally, I could take it no more and when he said, " Weeell Honey, we can't fix it tonight, you'll have to stay until Monday and I'll fix it then." My response was," First, if you call me honey one more time, you'll be singing soprano in Vienna and 2nd, it will be a cold day in hell before I stay here." We got back in the car and continued to drive. We got to Wheeling, WV and stopped and a guy called around and found us someplace that was willing to fix the car at 11pm on a Saturday night in Tridelphia, WV.

Next chapter, we started out after getting the car fixed, in a pea soup fog which never lifted. The goal was to reach Breezewood, PA (the city of motels) to get a room. When we got there, there was no room at the inn. So, having no choice we kept driving. Well, when I get tired I either get really stupid or really mean, as does my friend. Now, understand that I was exhausted and so was my friend. The bad part was the I got mean and she got stupid!! lol

She got frustrated when I wouldn't pull over unless I saw lights (remember, we were in the mountains). Finally she forced me to get off the highway and we stopped and found a place to stay. The guy who found the place warned us that they were still fighting the Civil War down there. So, all the way to the motel, we were practicing our southern accents, only to get there and got greeted by a guy from Jamaica!! lol

We settled down and after 3 hours of not being able to sleep, I got up and called my sister to find out that we were only 2 hours from her house!!

Ok, now, I dare anyone to beat that one!! lol Sorry it's so long.

[joycenalex]

1-my mom had a 63 olds delta 88 in 1973/4/5/6/7, bigger then huge all steel and the size of a small building, and really huge. i had a job working at a fast food place and the car wouldn't start, so a young male coworker offered to help jump the car, i was 16, he blew up the battery. sadly, neither my mother nor i had the money to replace the battery, so we didn't have a car for a week until i got paid and got a new battery the next week.
2-picking up my brother from boys club i scraped off the exhaust leaving the poorly maintained parking lot, i replaced that too.
3-i managed to push that car up to 90 racing down washtenaw avenue, after work about 3 am, i spun off the dial that registered the speed(pre digital age), we blew past a cop, but he never chased us, why i do not know, thank god no one was coming out into the road. i stonewalled on that.
4-at some point the trunk lock rusted off, so we opened the trunk with a looong flat head screw driver
5-there was the night that the car ran out of gas(the level float didn't work) so we coasted home.
6-the night my sister turned 16, she and i 'borrowed' it and went to burger king for a midnight burger run. i didn't think mom knew about that trip until i was 40. my sister and i were laughing about things we thought we'd gotten away with and my mom mentioned the night we took her car to get burgers, i was freaked out, she never said anything for all those years, i wonder what else she knew:eek: .......

[luckies4me]

When I was 9 my mothers ex boyfriend, the father of my younger brother, was driving around with my brother, who was only about 15 months at the time in the front seat drunk! My brother wasn't in a carseat and he didn't shut the passenger door all the way so when he made a turn at the intersection the door came open and my brother fell out of the car and almost was run over!!!!!:mad: :mad:

[Cincy'sMom]

Labor Day weekend, 2000

Friday afternoon, I leave work early. Ralph is in the process of changing jobs and has the day off. We are going to be married in Nov. 2000.

He meets me at work. We take both cars, stop at Toys-R-Us to get a Bday present for his nephew. Then we head over to his aunt house to pick up a grill she is giving us.

We come to a stop light, that is green. Car ahead of Ralph stops. Ralph tried to slow, but bumps this car with his Mustang. I am not expecting this at all. I try to swerve.

End result, Ford Ranger vs. Ford Mustang....Ranger wins!

It was interesting explaining to the cops we didn't need to exchange insurance info, as we were engaged. The claims agent for the insurance also got a laugh, when instead of giving the "other driver" info, I just handed him the phone :)

Yes, we got married as planned. Both cars got fixed, and now, Ralph follows me :)

[mugsy]

Boy that had to take a lot to post that one Amy!! ;) :D

[Cincy'sMom]

:D Once I get the scanner hoked back up, and I can even add pictures :)

We were having a cook-out the next day with several friends from the studio. It took a while before anyone noticed the Mustang, and when someone finally asked what I happened, I explained that some dumb B&^%h, rear-ended Ralph. Then I point out the front of the truck :)

[mugsy]

Wow, Richard says that one of the rules is that you're not allowed to bash your spouses driving and here you are bashing your own!! hehehe

[Cincy'sMom]

You are right...although maybe I shouldn't have posted this, if we weren't supposed to bash our spouses driving...cause I guess I sorta did it literally :)

[mugsy]

Oh geez!! That was really bad!! lol So does this mean that it's a good thing that we might be following YOU next weekend?? lol

[Cincy'sMom]

Hey, that was the one and only accident I have been in that was my fault! :)

[mugsy]

Yes, but you ADMITTED it on open forum and that makes you fair game for harassing! :D ;) :p You know I have to harass you, it's my life's work! ehehe

[RogueFerret]

Oh, me and cars do not get along. LOL:D


I got married really young. My ex-husband did not like the idea of me driving, so I didn't get my driver's licence untill we divorced. My dad taught me how to drive and I was doing really good. Finally, I went to take my driver's test.
I took my mom's car because it was an automatic and I was used to driving it. I drove with my dad in the car to the testing station. They told me it would be another hour before they could test me so me and my dad decided to get a bite to eat.
I pulled into a nearby resteraunt and started to park. The parking lot had a brick wall facing it. I pulled in and...
hit the gas instead of the break! I severly dented the bumper of the car and went and cried myself silly in the restrauant. Iwas so stressed that when I took my driver's test, I ran a stop sign and failed.


That was seven years ago. Just two weeks ago, a police officer pulled my mom over on the way to work. We both work at the same place, so I just ride in with her. We are in the same car I dented the bumper in. The officer said that he pulled us over because he got a report of someone in a car similar to my mom's running over mail boxes. My mom, who is not good under pressure, goes into a crying fit and hystericlly tells the officer that there is a dent on the front of her car but that it's all my fault and she swears she never hit a mail box in her entire life. She tells the cop the entire story of how I hit the brick wall!:eek: I have friends on the police force and now they all know! They call me "Lisa Lead Foot" and refuse to let me drive them anywhere.:mad:

[Cincy'sMom]

Well, since I like to dish it out, I guess I have to take it too :)

[mugsy]

And that's why we get along! lol

Lisa, that is hysterical! I think I would kill that cop though and that would be right after your mother for telling! lol

My mother wouldn't get stressed and cry, she'd just tell a story or 2 about me to the officer just for GPs! lol

[anna_66]

Molly, I think you & I would get along famously:D I hate people calling me Honey, baby, sweetheart, babe or anything else. I just despise it! My name is Anna:)
Ok, I have a good one for you.

We were coming back from my parents house in SC (a 530 mile trip).
We have Angus & Keisha with us in the car, and are pulling a trailer with a 10x10 kennel & a dog house in it.
We are in the WV mountians, almost 1/2 way home.
Up ahead is a toll both. All of a sudden the car just stops, it's still running, but won't move and we are about a tenth of a mile from the toll both. Thank god we were in the far right hand lane & not in the middle:eek:
Anyway, the guys come out & is going to help us push the car to the curb, but of course we have to pay the $1.25 toll first:rolleyes:
They send a wrecker & it pulls us to Beckley, W.V. to this motel, Huney in the Rock I think it was called. Luckily they accepted dogs.
Anyway the room is maybe 12x12 with a bed in the middle & a bathroom, and it was filthy! Ok, nothing else we can do, so we deal.
Noone will be able to fix the car until Monday (it's Saturday), and I'm not staying here another night, the dogs didn't even have room to turn around and there isn't a gas station or restraurant in walking distance! So I call my dad, he comes with his pu & a flatbed for the car, we put the trailer in the bed of the truck & the dogs had to ride in the car by themselves. I was so embarrased that I had to "call daddy", but what else was I to do? It was horrible! I was never so glad to be home!

[Desert Arabian]

This is a funny story, this happened to my Mom's friend, Sherann.

She was in Indiana pumping gas into her car, when she got done she got in her car, drove off, ripping the hose from the pump. When she reached Wisconsin, a driver on the freeway was pointing to her gas tank. She pulled over, and the gas nozzle was hanging out of her gas tank. :D :D :D :D

[mugsy]

Ok what is it about eastern Ohio and West Virginia for people having car trouble and having to deal with morons?? lol I LIKE people from Ohio and WV, but I don't think my car does!! lol

[gini]

This happened so long ago I shudder to think of the years gone by! Yes, kids, I am a lot older than most of you!

My very first car was a Metropolitan. Ah, you don't even know what that is, do you? Well, I was very lucky to even have any car at all and I was paying it off very slowly. And it was a used car I bought from a relative.

A Metropolitan is a very tiny car (smaller than a Mini-Cooper, I think). To get to the trunk you unlocked the back seat which folded down revealing some trunk space. I just didn't care, I had WHEELS!

Now Richard may be the only person that can truly appreciate this because he knows Los Angeles.

I was driving north up La Cienega Blvd. At the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and La Cienega - ahead there is a very steep hill. It never dawned on me that my little car would not be able to make that hill. I got half way up and clearly my car was balking at the hill.

Amazing - but then the traffic was very light (not so today) and all I could do was coast back down the hill...backwards......and finally get turned around in the correct lane in the opposite direction.

My heart was pounding..........but I made it!

[Pam]

One night one the way home from my mother-in-law's (I was newly married) my husband and I took a different route. There was a blinking light ahead (the kind you see at railroad crossings). As we came upon it, I screamed "Aren't you going to stop for the train?" My husband slammed on the brakes, even though there was no train in sight and there were no tracks crossing the road. He said he thought maybe one had derailed or something and was coming across the field (it was a country road). Anyway, I have no idea what those lights were for, but we laughed all the way home. We still talk about it today and I'd hate to tell you how many years ago that was!

26 years ago, I had a horrible experience:eek:

It was a morning in February. The roads were covered with ice and very slippery.
I was driving to work slowly, and suddenly my car started slipping, made a half turn and went to the opposite side of the road, just between two trucks(not hitting them, thank God!!) and then with the front into a huge tree.
My gardian angel must have been on my shoulder!! My car was total loss; only one door could be opened: mine:eek:
I didn't have a scratch!!
Up till today, I still have dreams about it! I dream then that I am in a car that cannot be stopped..!
So scary..:eek:

[joycenalex]

Originally posted by mugsy Ok what is it about eastern Ohio and West Virginia for people having car trouble and having to deal with morons?? lol snip...
since i moved to columbus in 1990, i think i've seen more wanna-be and never shall be " Nascar drivers". jeff goedon and dale jr would NEVER drive as i see people on the freeway during rushhour:eek:

[kingrattus]

Once Rob, Tom & I were going to my parents place(about a 60km drive). Rob was doing about 90km on Richmond Rd heading towards Franktown. Were a few km from the franktown Stop sign, when this big red truck started to tailgate us... he was so close we couldn't see his plate nor his lower bumper, he had to be about 5 feet away from our car...Rob tapped his brakes trying to get the truck to back off, that didn't work so he took his foot off the gas & let the car slow down on its own, in hopes the guy would back off or pass... Well he decides to finally pass at about 50km & cuts us off so bad we hit the breaks.. Rob & Tom gave him the finger as he looked in his rear mirror... it didn't take long for the truck to dissapear. But as we were about 1-2 km from the stop sign I said, hey look its the red hic mobile & goggled... but soon realized he wasn't moving & we saw no cars driving in his path. We stoped about 2-3 car lengths behind the truck, cause Rob said he didn't feel right & he was right, I said ummmm arn't those his reverse lights? & rob said umm ya it is... seconds after the truck floored the truck in reverse towards us, luckly rob was prepared & already had the car in reverse & he slamed on the gas. the truck stopped about 1 1/2 car lengths ahead of us & the guy came out, Rob locked the doors as soon as he saw him open his door... the guy tried to open the back drivers door & then tried to open the drivers door & then he tried to force the door open... Rob & tom just looked at him & he started to punch the windows, Rob unbuckled & took off his coat to reveal his size. The red-neck gave an odd look & walked off... all I can say is that 911 really gets the cops moving... they caught up with him at his house & wrote him up (they can't lay charges if they don't catch him in the act) ... hopefully that wont happen again...

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by gini
I was driving north up La Cienega Blvd. At the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and La Cienega - ahead there is a very steep hill. It never dawned on me that my little car would not be able to make that hill. I got half way up and clearly my car was balking at the hill.

EEEEK! I hate those hills....when my hubby drives with me in the car, my heart about stops at that cross street!!! :eek:

Glad you made it safely. :)

[jonza]

I was on my way alone to a safari lodge in South Africa once in a hired car, and had already driven about 500 km and was nearing the Mocambique border. I was a bit late, and I was really pushing it along the dirt road up to the lodge. It was way out in the bush, with giraffes and elephants and zebras and stuff all over the place. I was on a stretch that was flat and wide, going about 100 km an hour, when I hit a patch of dry sand on hard base. I instantly lost control, rolled the car once and spun it twice before going through the fence beside the road. The windows were open and my camera and a couple of lenses on the front seat. I can distinctly remember hanging upside down in my seat belt as I rolled, listening to the crashing of glass and thinking “how am I going to get out of this belt?” (Funny how it all happens in slow motion isn’t it)

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid56/p5dac0e7759b0ba6aeaf479b4665548c9/fc76391c.jpg

I managed to get out of the car with some difficulty, and presumably went into shock. I found one of the lenses about 20 meters away, walked back to the car, took the camera out and took some of pictures of the car and then put the camera back on the front seat. Then I went and just sat down in the middle of the road. How long would it be before I was found? Could be hours and hours. How long before the lions find me and eat me? Could be any time!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid56/p668ee1a77d6fa3aa70274bfe84465653/fc763919.jpg
Why is that idiot sitting in the middle of the road?

I have no idea how long I sat there, probably a good half hour. Then miraculously, an old couple came driving by and gave me a lift to the game wardens house.
Two hours later I was sitting in an open Land Rover surrounded by a pride of lions.

That was a very weird experience.

jonza

[kingrattus]

I learn how to drive in a car tomorrow at 11:15am

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by gini


My very first car was a Metropolitan. Ah, you don't even know what that is, do you? Well, I was very lucky to even have any car at all and I was paying it off very slowly. And it was a used car I bought from a relative.

Now Richard may be the only person that can truly appreciate this because he knows Los Angeles.

I got half way up and clearly my car was balking at the hill.



if you are truly happy driving a Metro, you do belong in
lost angeles!!! i could wear a pair of those on my feet and roller skate to work.

hills in lost angeles??? (only the rich people live in the hills...
;) i'm a flatlander).....in a Metro you have to take a running start at it and get out and push close to the top!

[Chinadoll]

ok, here's mine...

Last week, driving down a 3 lane highway, we were in the middle lane, a school bus was in the far right lane. Bus stops to let off some kiddies and pulls half way into the middle lane to let out the kids. Ok, I'm fine with that, he wants to make sure all cars are stopped when he lets out the kids...BUT what made me IRATE was after he dropped off the kids, he proceeds from the far right lane to directly cross all 3 lanes of traffic to make a left turn. How dangerous is that?! What if someone in the far left lane didn't stop? With a bus full of kids, that's a dangerous chance to take. I don't care if he does have to drive the bus down an extra block to correctly merge over all 3 lanes of traffic instead making the handy turn right where lets the kids off. It was just wrong.

My accident story:
You know those big concrete canals..like in the movie Grease where they were racing the cars? Well we were crossing one and the street we were merging into had a stop sign for the other cars. Some moron didn't stop at the stop sign and slammed into my passsenger side. The jeep would have fallen into that huge canal had we not been right before the guard rail and slammed into that instead of going over. Car was totaled. Amazingly, I was fine, but my friend who was driving had to go to the hospital. She's ok now. Best part...it was a hit and run. Jerk never even stopped to see if we were ok.