i remembered another one while i was at work today-
back when i was in HS (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) a good girl friend of mine
thought she had a knack for driving.
we had stopped at a gas station to get some papers, and she, wanting to show off because another carload of kids from the same school pulled up as we were getting ready to leave, decided to throw her car into reverse, punch it, then slip into neutral and do a rollback and smoke her tires a lil... (she had a shitty automatic mustang but drove it like it was a ferrari)
well, she never made it into reverse... im guessing that in her eagerness, she put a lil to much gusto into moving the shifter into reverse, and instead, it skipped over past neutral into drive. well she never realized it, and punched it anyway.
the only thing that kept her from driving through the all glass storefront was when she hit the curb, her foot slipped off the pedal, and a 55 gal trash can (the kind that has the gravel/stone sides to it) that got pinned between her bumper, and the one main support column for the glassfront of the store... still knocked over everything that was on racks and against the front of the store though, as the glass still flexed from the impact. we got outta dodge in a hurry, i dont know what was worse for her, the audience ion the other car, or me laughing hysterically because i was also tripping my balls off on acid... good stuff. i teased her for a good 2-3 years about it, everytime she would go to back up, id say- "you sure its in reverse this time, mario?" (as in mario andretti) she didnt think it was funny...
