tell me your most embarassing driving story

[polls47]

when for example you had problems with your car or other moments

[MoonRocker]

My dad had a car, a real smart Jag, which he bought really cheap, went well couldn't find anything wrong with it, until he tried to reverse that is! No reverse gear, Doh! So basically he had to be very careful where he parked etc, many a time I became the reverse gear, pushing it back when required!

[Euphemia]

My clutch went in a one-way street on the way to an agricultural show. I had to deal with the car, thumb a lift to the show ground with large collie, young baby in carrycot, baby bag, harness, grooming kit etc. Was I in a tizzy!

[LoftyLottie]

Road testing a potential new sports car with it's owner sitting beside me. I put it in reverse at traffic lights thinking it was first and hit the car behind me!! Fortunately, the owner was a friend and he took it well!! Whoops.

[TOWIE]

On my first driving test, way back when I was 19 - I mounted the kerb in East Ham High Street, sending pedestrians running - the examiner was terrified and sunk down into his anorak. He said calmly 'when you are ready Miss..H......please return to the highway...........I was surprised when he said I had failed....{:o(

[dennisb66]

Some years ago my SIL asked me to collect him from the airport using his 4x4.I spent ages trying to get it into reverse to back off his driveway.A neighbough saw my frustration and came to help explaining politely that I needed to LIFT UP the gear stick to get it in reverse .I felt a right prat after nearly 50 years of driving.

lift

[TOWIE]

I have numerous embarrassing stories with cars. Another one, (which Redman loves this).....is when I was parking in Key Markets Supermarkets (remember them)......I had sold my Mini and had gone up a notch to a Ford Escort - using my same parking spot in the supermarket car park, and forgetting I had a slightly bigger car.....I managed to wedge my Escort between a large concrete pillar and a bollard.....I drove back and forth trying to free myself but only making a larger dent in car.

Had to phone Mr. T. it took him, my Dad and 3 other laughing car owners to bump my car out of the wedged position, while I stood looking helpful and innocent with 4 bags of shopping. Mr. T. said, 'why the bloody hell did you park there' to which I replied 'well it fitted the space last week' - 'thats cause you had a Mini you silly mare' was Mr. T's reply. {:o/

[tonyav]

LOL @ TOWIE, it's a classic.

[TOWIE]

Thank you Tony.....hahaha

[LoftyLottie]

Driving up to the school where I worked one day in my rubbish metro - all the children were in the playground and my gear assembly fell out through the floor of the car (with me actually trying to change gear and gradually falling through with it)

Kids thought it was extremely funny!!

[Mick-Talbot]

Unlocks my red ford cortina
me and my mate get in
puts keys in ignition
then notices open ash tray with fag ash and a stubbed out fag.....went into a psychotic rant

'who the Fluffing hell has been smoking in my f****** car I will f***** kill the b*****d

at which point my mate notices another red cortina a few cars down and says



"do you think you could be in the wrong car"


Yep I was .... :0/

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[tenrec]

My mum once got into a Austin van and heard milk crates rattle in the back and realised it was not our van.
My car once conked out on a roundabout. Very embarrassing.

[TWR]

I doubt you would belive this if I told you.

[craft1948]

Went to pick the car up after work, looked all round the car park and couldn't find it.............rang the police to report the car as stolen................remembered I'd left it in a different car park.

[missprim]

In the days before seat belts became compulsory I was giving my boss's young son a lift to his house and the young lad hadn't shut the door properly so when we went round the roundabout the door flew open and I just managed to grab him to stop him from falling out.
Can't tell you how petrified I was to go into work the next day.

[Psybbo]

TWR, please tell us

[EvianBaby]

About 6 years I bought a new car and was feeling very cool. As I pulled into my road I saw my next door neighbour out the front who I fancied quite a lot and decided to try and impress him by perfectly reversing my lovely new car onto the drive (reverse parking is my forte and I imagined he would be in ore of me). I swung it round to the right, stuck it in reverse and moved back pretty quickly with my eyes half on him, half on the reflection of the ground in my side mirror. I was pretty shocked when I heard the sound of my rear window crashing in and my dads brand new motorbike lying in a heap on the floor. This was of course followed by the sound of my dad bellowing 'what the flump have you done to my bike!'.

Not only did I make myself look like a total wazzock in front of fit neighbour but my Dad wouldn't speak to me for about 3 months.

[TWR]

The A505 off the M11 at Duxford, as you come of the M11 there used to be a car / caravan selling tea's etc, I used to use this place every time I was heading towards Haverhill, It was a Sunday I pulled up, walked into the caravan & was about to order only to find a bloke & his wife had stopped there for a break from their driving, we all had a laugh & fair play to the lady she was about to make me what I was about to order, It's up to you whether you belive this tale, but i'ts true.

[Postdog]

Had an automatic for the first time ever - knew very little about them other than being like a dodgem. Anyway one day I stalled, it wouldn't start, and nor would the key come out. Called the AA and waited an hour but he took one look and said the gear shift wasn't where it should be to start. I gave him a couple of quid for a drink out of embarrassment.

[Andyvon]

My first (!) embarrassing incident was a couple of weeks after passing my test in 1980. I was driving my brother's old Vauxhall Viva in rush-hour traffic and I'd got lazy with putting the handbrake on every time I stopped. I had got in the habit of just holding the car in neautral on the footbrake. On this occasion I was holding the car on the footbrake - on a steep hill! As the cars started moving I put the car in gear, took my foot off the brake - and rolled straight back into the car behind! I was shocked and blubbered about just passing my test but at least the poor chap was very affable as he just told me not to worry about it and got back in his car!

Shortly after that I came across a single parking space in a line of parked cars - and nipped straight in front end first! The back of the car was sticking out blocking the road for a bus and the road quickly jammed up behind there. Everyone had to back up so I could reverse out again!

No wonder new drivers' insurance is so high!