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I confess, I once drove over the rear bumper of the car in front of me to get out of a parking place. I was solidly and hopelessly parked in.
Dented both cars. I was frustrated, alone, it was 3 am on a sub-zero night, and I was a teen.
LOL on the confession. Here's another- Someone double parked next to me on a city street. I wanted to leave, but I politely waited and smoked a cigarette figuring that whoever it was would be out in a hurry. Nobody would be so inconsiderate as to stay double parked like that for an extended time, right?
Sure. Right.
I finished my smoke and no one came. I was starting to get a little less patient, but I lit another smoke and waited some more. I finished that smoke and still no one, 20 minutes gone by. My patience was slipping away quickly now, I lit another smoke and laid on the horn.
3rd smoke gone, 10 minutes of horn blaring and pedestrians gawking, no response. This [expletive] had just stolen 30 minutes of my life, and I'd had enough. I got into my 1973 Gran Torino and fired up my big V-8 motor. I cut the wheel hard and backed up as far as I could, then cut hard the other way, put it in D and laid the heavy steel bumper against the side of that inconsiderate [expletive]'s nice car. Then I put the pedal to the metal, lit up my rear tires and pushed that SOB crossways into the street...and drove off to the merry 'farewell' symphony of a multitude of blaring horns of the traffic stacking up behind the impromptu roadblock.
I imagine that someone probably called the cops at some point, but I never heard anything about it.
LOL on the confession. Here's another- Someone double parked next to me on a city street. I wanted to leave, but I politely waited and smoked a cigarette figuring that whoever it was would be out in a hurry. Nobody would be so inconsiderate as to stay double parked like that for an extended time, right?
Sure. Right.
I finished my smoke and no one came. I was starting to get a little less patient, but I lit another smoke and waited some more. I finished that smoke and still no one, 20 minutes gone by. My patience was slipping away quickly now, I lit another smoke and laid on the horn.
3rd smoke gone, 10 minutes of horn blaring and pedestrians gawking, no response. This [expletive] had just stolen 30 minutes of my life, and I'd had enough. I got into my 1973 Gran Torino and fired up my big V-8 motor. I cut the wheel hard and backed up as far as I could, then cut hard the other way, put it in D and laid the heavy steel bumper against the side of that inconsiderate [expletive]'s nice car. Then I put the pedal to the metal, lit up my rear tires and pushed that SOB crossways into the street...and drove off to the merry 'farewell' symphony of a multitude of blaring horns of the traffic stacking up behind the impromptu roadblock.
I imagine that someone probably called the cops at some point, but I never heard anything about it.
I love to do that to the cars of folks who park in Handicapped spaces, or park on the stripes, for "just a couple of minutes". When did couple mean a half hour or more? Anyways, I'll never do that, but it's a nice fantasy.
I almost posted a picof that, odessa, but I thought it would be in bad taste. Funny but tasteless. To each his own.
Saw this a lot at the Dodge store years back, folks would put heating oil instead of diesel fuel in thier Cumminses. The additives are different and it's real bad for the fuel sytem, we would have to flush the system and it usually toook two fuel/water separatr filters to finally get it back to running. Heating oil is cheaper because it doesn't have the gas taxes like at the gas station.
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1. Not slowing down while passing through speed-bump. That's my cousin!
2. Drive the car until the gas tank is almost empty. Sometime he ended up pushing the car or walking to a gas station to get gas. That's my cousin!
3. During winter, using the wiper to clean the ice sheet on the windshield. That's my cousin!
This last one is probably not related but regardless I am going to bring it up:
Forget to turn off the engine while filling up the tank.
1. Not slowing down while passing through speed-bump. That's my cousin!
2. Drive the car until the gas tank is almost empty. Sometime he ended up pushing the car or walking to a gas station to get gas. That's my cousin!
3. During winter, using the wiper to clean the ice sheet on the windshield. That's my cousin!
This last one is probably not related but regardless I am going to bring it up:
Forget to turn off the engine while filling up the tank.
1. Not slowing down while passing through speed-bump. That's my cousin!
2. Drive the car until the gas tank is almost empty. Sometime he ended up pushing the car or walking to a gas station to get gas. That's my cousin!
3. During winter, using the wiper to clean the ice sheet on the windshield. That's my cousin!
This last one is probably not related but regardless I am going to bring it up:
Forget to turn off the engine while filling up the tank.
He is a hazard, I am a telling you!
I use my wipers with the de-ice setting, but south Louisiana doesn't freeze like up north and I wait till I see the de-ice is melting the frost before turning on the wiper.
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The additives are different and it's real bad for the fuel sytem, we would have to flush the system and it usually toook two fuel/water separatr filters to finally get it back to running. Heating oil is cheaper because it doesn't have the gas taxes like at the gas station.
