What's your most embarrassing driving experience?
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Drove into the local sports ground car park and decided to use the edge of the grass rugby pitch to get extra room to park. Didn't realise there was a six inch drop form the car park to the pitch which had long grass that hadn't been mown 
Ford Escort stuck fast with drive wheels hanging in mid air! Front row had to lift me back onto the car park
Ford Escort stuck fast with drive wheels hanging in mid air! Front row had to lift me back onto the car park
Or a camera at the right time...bigdog said:Some folk just don't have a sense of humor.aquazi said:not for me... but for my ex.
In my car, driving along the M1 with the roof down... see a few cars look at us, just thought it was the usual "look at that poser with the roof down" stare.
Then stuck at slow moving traffic, van driver next to me shouts outs nice baps love
The gf was wearing a vest top, but the seat belt had gone between her cleavage, pulled her top down and exposed her! I found it amusing... which only angered her more
mr wilks said:its friday have 2 on me
1) long day driving to south of france with 2 tired kids & grumpy wife we decided on one more breakstop after leaving the autoroute , spotted car park & headed for it , , shock as i ripped off the 3 bikes on roofbars & mangled the overhead barrier
2) son's first car we decided to fit new bigger wheels just before his grandad took him out for a lesson , , all going well until i took a phone call .
returned to the wheels & completed task but forgot to tighten the nuts on wheel i fitted before the call
off they went on lesson only for irate grandad to phone me 25mins later to say the wheel had come off & rolled luckily into someones garden
Top efforts! would have made popular youtube clips
Scariest was on a small motorbike in the rain when fairly inexperienced. Riding down Uxbridge high street I put the brakes on, the front wheel locked up on diesel spillage and I went skating down the road across a pedestrian crossing with both feet on the floor, grabbing the front brake like mad with the bike slapping around between my legs. I reckon I made the already wet road a little wetter!
Most embarrassing. Opened the door, stepped out, slipped on a dog turd and went arse over tit.
Most embarrassing. Opened the door, stepped out, slipped on a dog turd and went arse over tit.
On holiday in Tenerife, I was driving on a motorway back from the east of the island to the resort, but it was dark already. Lane 1 was for the turn off to the other motorway I needed, lanes 2 and 3 were for straight on. I was in lane 1, but I realised it was the road I needed that sharply dived off in the dark and lane 1 carried straight on after all. After coming off at the junction a short way ahead, it took a little way of driving on a parallel road to get back to where I needed to be. I thought I had better be prepared for any more sharp turn-offs like that.
Back on the motorway again on a quiet stretch and after a few miles downhill, I saw the sign for Playa de las Americas (yes,I know) so I was prepared to turn off. I glanced at a sign with what looked like it might be a slip road, so out I pulled. However, I realised too late that it wasn't the slip road. It was a gravel trap for lorries with faded brakes and with concrete walls on either side. There was no chance of stopping before it. My friend woke somewhat startled as we bounced over the ridges in the gravel, but half way through it struck me that I can't get stuck in it. So my foot went to the floor to power us out.
I did make it out and pulled back on to the motorway, taking the proper turn half a mile ahead. There were stones falling out the whole way back. Hire cars can get through anything.
I went past there again about five years ago and they'd put barrels at the end to stop people driving through!
Back on the motorway again on a quiet stretch and after a few miles downhill, I saw the sign for Playa de las Americas (yes,I know) so I was prepared to turn off. I glanced at a sign with what looked like it might be a slip road, so out I pulled. However, I realised too late that it wasn't the slip road. It was a gravel trap for lorries with faded brakes and with concrete walls on either side. There was no chance of stopping before it. My friend woke somewhat startled as we bounced over the ridges in the gravel, but half way through it struck me that I can't get stuck in it. So my foot went to the floor to power us out.
I did make it out and pulled back on to the motorway, taking the proper turn half a mile ahead. There were stones falling out the whole way back. Hire cars can get through anything.
I went past there again about five years ago and they'd put barrels at the end to stop people driving through!
I once got irate in a queue of traffic, hooting my horn at their lack of progress when lights ahead turned to green, only to realise the cars were all parked up with no drivers.
Oh and I also did a 180 degree spin on a roundabout on to the A14 after encountering a diesel spill.
Oh and I also did a 180 degree spin on a roundabout on to the A14 after encountering a diesel spill.
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Stuart Truman said:
One of my first days driving a torquey V6 Tiburon with an automatic transmission. Forced it into kickdown in mid-turn on wet surface, which duly resulted in a spectacular understeer skid into the kerb and the destruction of my front suspension.
Jet lagged and slightly hungover I left Cologne heading for Liege. When I realized that I had been seeing the same landmarks and signs twice, I pulled into a police barracks to ask directions. The policeman at the desk looked and smiled when I walked in. My lack of sleep and and the lingering effects of the previous evening guided my brain to ask in perfect German "Sprechen Sie auch Deutsch?". The officers smile became wider and he replied in English "Yes, a little".