Stupidest thing you've done while driving

[Nash]

I pulled to a stop at a red light. I was about 17 at the time. I was in the center lane, and there was a car on my left and another on my right.

The car on my left started revvin' his engine, which caught my attention. I looked over at the driver and he was lookin' at me and makin' those gestures that suggested we race. I was in my mom's Buick Century but like, I was the best driver in the entire world at the time so it didn't matter. He was in one of those cars that Lazs could tell ya about.

Anyways, I nodded 'affirmative' to him, and immediately he looks forward and takes off. So I punched it and launched the car into the intersection. A blood curling scream from my girlfriend punctuates the roar of my V6. I look forward, and discover that I am racing through a red light. I check my mirror to find that my opponent (you know, the one to the left of me), having received his left turn signal, was making a standard left turn.

The bastard.

Your turn... Fess up!

[Dune]

While driving State Route 85 (here in Arizona) at about 2pm in the afternoon.  Now this is a fairly heavily traveled roadway, especially in the middle of the afternoon.  It's also only two lanes.  I'm in my 4x4 Chevy pickup with my (then-) 5'5" (one of the hotest girls I've ever dated) girlfriend.  

And she decides to swing a leg over and start having sex with me while I'm doing about 65mph to make a concert in Phoenix.  Needless to say I was somewhat distracted but managed to keep from running off the road and killing anyone.  But I've always wondered what it looked like to the people in the cars headed the other way.

It's also the most fun I've ever had while driving.  

[SunTracker]

While driving through West Virginia on the way to North Carolina (wilmington beach), I started to get hot.  I was following my two close friends in my S-10 (regular cab).  They were in a car.

So anyways, we are on this six lane highway.  Pretty heavy traffic.  My windows are tinted pretty dark.  In the passenger seat of my truck is my Kelty hiking pack and a pillow.  The cab of my truck is tiny for my 6'3 frame.  Long story short, I completely changed clothes while driving on the highway.  Changed from my long sleeve shirt, running pants, and boots into a t-shirt, shorts, and sandals.

Very dumb I know, but nobody was hurt and I wont do that again.

[GtoRA2]

2000 jeep wrangler, late fall. No top, 3 passagers, no towels no blankets... no jackets.


6 in the afternoon, late fall on Pismo Beach in Cali.


the stream was about 2 feet deep, drove through it at 20, 4 times.

Jeep had 6 inches of water in it, everyone was soaked to the bone.... we had to drive 3 hours home to the bay area in the dark with no top.


one passager was 6,4 and in the back seat....(anyone who has a wrangler knows why this is bad)

lucky for me the heater kept me more or less warm.


Not dangerous, just VERY unconfortable.

[Arlo]

Drink.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by Dune
While driving State Route 85 (here in Arizona) at about 2pm in the afternoon.  Now this is a fairly heavily traveled roadway, especially in the middle of the afternoon.  It's also only two lanes.  I'm in my 4x4 Chevy pickup with my (then-) 5'5" (one of the hotest girls I've ever dated) girlfriend.  

And she decides to swing a leg over and start having sex with me while I'm doing about 65mph to make a concert in Phoenix.  Needless to say I was somewhat distracted but managed to keep from running off the road and killing anyone.  But I've always wondered what it looked like to the people in the cars headed the other way.

It's also the most fun I've ever had while driving.  

I'm always amazed when attorneys get lucky... it's testimony to just how stupid women really are.

[WMLute]

not dumbest thing I did, but happened when I was in the car.

Just left a formal dance while in H.S., and was sitting in the back of a Mercedes Jeep w/ my chick.  The guy driving it was from some Arab country, and had ton o' $$ and was very drunk.  The jeep had those criss cross seat belts in it, and while we were cruising down the highway towards an afterparty, I asked the guy why the seatbelts were the crisscross type.

They guy said "here, I'll show you", veered over to the outside lane, onto the sholder of the highway.  On this particular stretch of the road there was a fairly steep grade downslope just past the sholder, and the IDIOT took the jeep off the sholder, onto the hill, and FLIPPED the steering wheel causing the jeep to flip over, and over, and over.  

It came to a stop (upside down) and we all crawled out of it.  The driver was laughing, saying something about how "safe" these Mercedes jeeps were, when I crawled over to him, straddled 'em, and proceeded to punch him over, and over, and over.  Beat the fugger into unconciousness.

Idiot.  NEVER put my chick into that kinda danger.  At least, if you do, expect the arse whooping.

Sad part was he had another jeep in like a week.

[RTStuka]

Originally posted by Dune
While driving State Route 85 (here in Arizona) at about 2pm in the afternoon.  Now this is a fairly heavily traveled roadway, especially in the middle of the afternoon.  It's also only two lanes.  I'm in my 4x4 Chevy pickup with my (then-) 5'5" (one of the hotest girls I've ever dated) girlfriend.  

And she decides to swing a leg over and start having sex with me while I'm doing about 65mph to make a concert in Phoenix.  Needless to say I was somewhat distracted but managed to keep from running off the road and killing anyone.  But I've always wondered what it looked like to the people in the cars headed the other way.

It's also the most fun I've ever had while driving.  

HA I got ya beat, I did it while driving a standard, you try shifting gears and keeping your eyes on the road.

[AKIron]

When I was 15 I drove my motorcycle around town with my girlfriend in front of me and my buddy and his girlfriend behind me. Four of us on my Yamaha 125.

[Hawklore]

Umm...

I can tell yah the stupest thing I've done with a car..

And thats got into the truck or rather it was a car, while my dad was driving, and handing him the map, (CAUSE HE ASKED FOR IT) while he was driving, needless to say, We can within 3 feet of a guard rail while driving straight at it...

Empty road though..

[eskimo2]

Too many to mention…

One was putting a brick on the gas pedal at 55, climbing out of the sunroof and sitting on the roof with my feet on the steering wheel.  That was 20 years ago, but I can still see the look on a hitchhikers face as I wizzed by with my arms straight up like you do on roller coasters.

When I was growing up in Alaska I used to buy old junk cars just to jump and trash them…  I could go on and on.

eskimo

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by Nash
I pulled to a stop at a red light. I was about 17 at the time. I was in the center lane, and there was a car on my left and another on my right.

The car on my left started revvin' his engine, which caught my attention. I looked over at the driver and he was lookin' at me and makin' those gestures that suggested we race. I was in my mom's Buick Century but like, I was the best driver in the entire world at the time so it didn't matter. He was in one of those cars that Lazs could tell ya about.

Anyways, I nodded 'affirmative' to him, and immediately he looks forward and takes off. So I punched it and launched the car into the intersection. A blood curling scream from my girlfriend punctuates the roar of my V6. I look forward, and discover that I am racing through a red light. I check my mirror to find that my opponent (you know, the one to the left of me), having received his left turn signal, was making a standard left turn.

The bastard.

Your turn... Fess up!

I liked your story about the cop and the loudspeaker at the light that wouldnt turn better.

How did it go?  "Meepmeeerrryiiip pull forward yeeeaaarmeep!"

[RTStuka]

Originally posted by Saurdaukar
I liked your story about the cop and the loudspeaker at the light that wouldnt turn better.

How did it go?  "Meepmeeerrryiiip pull forward yeeeaaarmeep!"

Come on Nash, I gotta hear this story.

[Nash]

Yeah, but that was a drinkin' drivin' story... man I got thousands of those. I thought it better to sick with stupid, and avoid idiotic altogether.

[RTStuka]

Originally posted by Nash
Yeah, but that was a drinkin' drivin' story... man I got thousands of those. I thought it better to sick with stupid, and avoid idiotic altogether.

Understandable.