Is This You ?

[Lewis]

Women forget their parking space, men forget their passengers
Embarrassing driving mistakes come in many varieties, and both genders have their favorites.

• Most embarrassing driving mistakes

 

[reba]

I locked the keys in car ... Then i could not remember the number code.... Being away from home i called AAA they tried not to laugh... all is cool DH does not need to know this no harm no foul .. He gets a letter from AAA asking about the quality of service...

 

[AirDancer]

Tried to open a car door and realized it wasn’t your car

This has not ever been a problem for me, but several years ago, I was talking with a friend near my car as a couple approached. The guy kept clicking his key fob to unlock the trunk of his car. When that didn't work as planned, he decided to unlock the car doors. Again, no luck at all with the button on his key fob. The air was turning a nasty shade of blue from his language as he blamed the battery in his key fob. Finally, he deemed it necessary to manually insert key to unlock.

About two feet away, it was clear what had happened. He thought my car was his and was trying to unlock my car. I finally spoke up to claim ownership. Well, that didn't please the man at all.

His car, which happened to be the same make & model & color as my car, was parked three rows over. He had simply forgotten where he had parked his car.

Did I mention it was a private lot, with assigned parking upon arrival? Each parking pass had the row # as well as the parking space # on it.

 

[Lewis]

Through all the years that I have been driving since 1972 I have locked my keys in the car about 4 or 5 times. I have opened the door myself with a coat hanger a few times and a wood wedge and a coat hanger once and called AAA once. Oh and I have been drunk a couple of time and forgot where I parked.

 

[Deborah13]

 

[agua.]

Through all the years that I have been driving since 1972 I have locked my keys in the car about 4 or 5 times. I have opened the door myself with a coat hanger a few times and a wood wedge and a coat hanger once and called AAA once. Oh and I have been drunk a couple of time and forgot where I parked.

Ok Lewis fess up. How many times have you left the lights on and have a flat battery ? ( ps probably a blessing to forget where the car is when drunk :D )

 

[Lewis]

Ok Lewis fess up. How many times have you left the lights on and have a flat battery ? ( ps probably a blessing to forget where the car is when drunk :biggrin )

I left the interior dome light on about twice overnight and yep' you said it' my battery was dead in the morning.

 

[jasonc]

Ok Lewis fess up. How many times have you left the lights on and have a flat battery ? ( ps probably a blessing to forget where the car is when drunk :D )

its a dead battery not a flat battery to us americans. and I call that stress testing the battery. I have. I remember one time when I had to the do the paper route. my Nissan was dead so I took the ranger and got the papers and started my Nissan with the ranger and let it run while I rolled the papers. from dead to charged enough to run it for the paper route. I took the car inside the bay to charge it fully for a few hours after all the main workers left the compound.

 

[Obadiah]

5. Driven away with something on the roof, such as coffee or a purse: 31 percent (men: 28 percent; women: 34 percent)

This was my worst one ever. It was an envelope with over $7000 cash in it. To make things much worse, the cash was evidence in a court case that would be lost without it. Returned from a 40 mile round trip and remembered the envelope had been on the car roof when I couldn't find it. I started to retrace my route and found it laying on the side of the freeway onramp where I started the trip, looking just like it did when I lost it, all the cash still in it. Thank God!

 

[Lewis]

5. Driven away with something on the roof, such as coffee or a purse: 31 percent (men: 28 percent; women: 34 percent)

This was my worst one ever. It was an envelope with over $7000 cash in it. To make things much worse, the cash was evidence in a court case that would be lost without it. Returned from a 40 mile round trip and remembered the envelope had been on the car roof when I couldn't find it. I started to retrace my route and found it laying on the side of the freeway onramp where I started the trip, looking just like it did when I lost it, all the cash still in it. Thank God!

Drove away with my main Bible on the roof of the church van that I was driving in Chichester PA, a lady found it and called me because my number was in it. And she said I could tell it was dear to you because throughout the Bible it is well highlighted, and I will drive it to Upper Darby PA to you. And she did, and I am still using this KJV Bible today.

 

[agua.]

I left the interior dome light on about twice overnight and yep' you said it' my battery was dead in the morning.

You're not alone there Brother. I also left my parkers on a few times and Bob's your uncle same result.

 

[Claudya]

Gone the wrong way down a one-way street: 34 percent

Did that. Not by accident, but on purpose. It was real short cut. Never got caught.

Driven away with something on the roof, such as coffee or a purse: 31 percent

Yeah, thank the Lord it was "only" coffee and not my purse.

Tried to open a car door and realized it wasn’t your car: 29 percent

That one, too. It was the same type and colour of car as mine and it was parking next to mine. And it was dark.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine. And she actually managed to unlock the strangers' car with her car keys. She got in and then noticed stuff inside was different than hers. Only then did she realise it wasn't her car. It's scary knowing that two car keys can open other cars, too. Because who know who's gonna open yours then.

 

[TOG]

Women forget their parking space, men forget their passengers
Embarrassing driving mistakes come in many varieties, and both genders have their favorites.

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  • Most embarrassing driving mistakes

Let me tell you a true story of an embarrassing mistake. A parking warden was working downtown checking the parking meters, when he saw a woman with her arm stuck in the window of her car. She asked him for help, and he asked her what had happened. She said that she had gone in to pay some parking tickets and when she came out again, she realized that she had left the keys in the ignition. She noticed that the window on the passenger's side was partly open, so she tried to reach in and get the keys, but she couldn't reach them, and now she was stuck and couldn't get her arm out again. The parking warden looked the situation over for just a few second, then he opened the door and rolled down the window. That lady must have been seriously embarrassed.

The TOG​

 

[Kathi]

I locked the keys in car ... Then i could not remember the number code.... Being away from home i called AAA they tried not to laugh... all is cool DH does not need to know this no harm no foul .. He gets a letter from AAA asking about the quality of service...

Me too reba,I have locked the keys in my car too and had called AAA.

 

[Kathi]

Ok Lewis fess up. How many times have you left the lights on and have a flat battery ? ( ps probably a blessing to forget where the car is when drunk :biggrin )

I am not Lewis but I have left the lights on in my car before and the battery was dead.I have also forgotten where my car was in the parking garage of a huge mall.Once I thought someone stole my car but nope I finally found it.
I once backed up into a post as I was leaving a parking space at an apartment.I was taking my daughter to a girlfriends house.When I reported it to the insurance company I told them a post bumped into me :neutral

 

[Edward]

Back in my stoner days my friend came to visit but had his other friend with him and they came in his car, an old beat up Subaru that I had never seen before. I needed a quick ride to King Soopers for something and for some reason I can't recall, only me and my friends buddy went, be right back...

So we both went in to the store, but on the way out, he forgot something and said be right back, meet you at the car. I went out and there's an old beat up Subaru there so i opened the door and hopped in and sat down. Wait a minute, somethings not right here, what's all this Mcdonalds trash doing on the floor, it wasn't there when we came...and then it hit me. I got in and sat down in the wrong car! Doh!

 

[Obadiah]

...Same thing happened to a friend of mine. And she actually managed to unlock the strangers' car with her car keys. She got in and then noticed stuff inside was different than hers. Only then did she realise it wasn't her car. It's scary knowing that two car keys can open other cars, too. Because who know who's gonna open yours then.

That happened to my dad a long time ago too! Same make, model, and color parked in the market parking lot only two spaces from where his car was parked. He had the engine started and it was only when he turned his head to look out the back window to back out of the parking space that he saw stuff in the back seat that wasn't his! He looked around and didn't see anyone looking panicked, so he just shut it off, re-locked the door, and walked sheepishly away to his own car. I guess they only make so many different keys.

 

[Claudya]

That happened to my dad a long time ago too! Same make, model, and color parked in the market parking lot only two spaces from where his car was parked. He had the engine started and it was only when he turned his head to look out the back window to back out of the parking space that he saw stuff in the back seat that wasn't his! He looked around and didn't see anyone looking panicked, so he just shut it off, re-locked the door, and walked sheepishly away to his own car. I guess they only make so many different keys.

You gotta wonder how many strangers have been sitting in *your* car because their keys worked with it.

Also I wonder if that can happen with the newer car keys, too.. Imagine you stand in the middle of a parking lot and press the button of your remote key - and five different cars' light's flash up.

 

[agua.]

You gotta wonder how many strangers have been sitting in *your* car because their keys worked with it.

Also I wonder if that can happen with the newer car keys, too.. Imagine you stand in the middle of a parking lot and press the button of your remote key - and five different cars' light's flash up.

Apparently this is unlikely Claudya.

"The controller chip in any modern controller uses something called a hopping code or a rolling code to provide security. For example, if you read this PDF, it describes a system that uses a 40-bit rolling code. Forty bits provide 240 (about 1 trillion) possible codes. Here's how it works: "

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/remote-entry2.htm

Don't press the button more than 256 times though :biggrin

 

[jasonc]

Apparently this is unlikely Claudya.

"The controller chip in any modern controller uses something called a hopping code or a rolling code to provide security. For example, if you read this PDF, it describes a system that uses a 40-bit rolling code. Forty bits provide 240 (about 1 trillion) possible codes. Here's how it works: "

if it is a fob yes but not if its like my Nissan or ranger. hardly relics.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/remote-entry2.htm

Don't press the button more than 256 times though :biggrin