Something Dumb I Did - Freeze-Frame Radio

Molly · The Mediator

RE: Something Dumb I Did

Pambo · Waiting To Be Widowed

Just tell everyone you were getting in the Christmas spirit by throwing confetti around the place. Oh yeah. That & don't eat the speckled snow.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Would that be greenest lawn or brownest snow?

Molly · The Mediator

"Oo! My lemon snowcone has chocolate chips in it!"

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Do the chips taste like chicken?

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

That all depends on what your dog had for lunch...

Pambo · Waiting To Be Widowed

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Here's one from today but I was a witness, not a participant.

I had to go pick up my grandmother with the 4wd and get her to the grocery store. I dropped her off at the door and told her I'd watch for her and come pick her back up at the door when she came out.

So, I'm sitting out in the parking lot and a big full size, extended cab, 4wd pickup pulls up behind me and parks. The guy leaves it running and gets out. As we walks by he got my attention because he waves at me like he knows me. He was almost up to the door of the grocery store and movement in the mirror catches my eye and I see his pickup backing up. For a few seconds I didn't think anything about it then I thought, wait, he was the only one I saw in there. So, I looked again and his truck is in reverse idling across the lot. I hopped out and was trying to decide if I could get to his truck before it hit anything. I saw I wasn't going to make it, so I went after the owner who was just going inside.

Just as I was getting to the store, his truck was moving slow, but it was no match for the small car it hit. The truck pushed the car out of the way and continued backing up across the lot. Another 100 feet and it broadsides another parked pickup pushing it sideways to where it was within a couple inches of the one next to it too.

I caught up with the owner just inside the door and he came back out and of course he's upset. But the dumb thing for the day ? ? ? He tells me "Oh yeah, that stupid thing has been jumping out of park into reverse for a few days".

THEN WHY DID YOU GO OFF AND LEAVE IT RUNNING ! ? ! ? ! ?

I took my grandmother home and stopped on my way back by the store to see if they needed a statement from me. The owner asked me to tell the cop that the truck did sit there for a bit and that he didn't just leave it in gear and get out.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Thinking more about it . . .

It did sit there for probably 20 seconds or so before it started moving. But, this was a new truck . . . don't all newer vehicles have the thing where you have to have your foot on the brake to get it out of park ? ? ? I suppose if it was problem within the transmission it could maybe still pop out of park even without the brake depressed. He did want me to look though as a witness and the indicator did say it was in reverse. So, I still wonder how it got out of park without his foot on the brake.

Or, maybe I just try to think too much.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Still, why did he leave it running? If he didn't leave it running, would it have done the same thing?

Or did he plan the whole thing and just wave at you so you would be an unwitting participant in his case?

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

No, if he had turned it off, it wouldn't have done that.

This place could be a car thief's heaven in the winter. When it's cold, people are always leaving their cars running while they run into a store.

Judging by the look on his face, I don't think it was a planned course of events.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Yes, the "thing" is called a brake interlock. (My son is a transmission mechanic for Ford... I learn lots of automotive stuff like it or not.) Sounds like dude needs to get his trunk into the shop ASAP. If he knows this to be happening, he is crazy to leave the thing running unattended. He's extremely lucky no one (especially himself) has been injured yet.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Yeah - interlock - thats it!

It was a Ford too.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

I was raised Chevy, but I will refrain from the Ford jokes...

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I like my Explorer (or Exploder if you prefer ) And let's face it... I get a great deal on service given that my mechanic is my kid.

Here's another dumb thing, well really more along the lines of crapulent than dumb but here it is... I witnessed this one this morning and since we are on the vehicle subject... I'm on my way to work this morning and pull up to a stop light one lane over and one car behind a vehicle that has those ridiculous spinning wheel covers. Not the actual high dollar rims, mind you... the cheezy wheel covers. (Apologies to anyone who may have them, but to me they are just silly and every time I see them I think of Chris Rock's stand up show.) One of them is missing. Now, if you are actually vain (?) enough to make this stylistic choice to call attention to your ride, shouldn't you bother to have the full collection of them intact???

Ultimo · King of the Ring

I saw someone the other day that had the worst car you have ever seen, can't remember what it was exactly some dodgy old esate car, anyway they had just one of those silly spinning alloy things on too, just one, I thought, man thats just stupid, and it was a really cheap one too.

CP · Lord of the Lair

My moments number as the sands of the sea.

The worst by far was the Cher experience--

Then there was the time I got upset at the security person at Charles DeGaulle. I told him his breath smelled like Pepe LePew. He spoke English--but of course spent five min. scolding me in French.

I seem to recall a time in a Milwaukee Bar and getting embarassed infront of a few forum members.

Or there was the time I was sunbathing in my back yard--to acheive the no tan line look, and the pool boy came.

The list goes on.