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.

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! 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

[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!

[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!!!!

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 ) 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 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!!!
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.

[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.