>be me >1 hour ago >decide it's too cold to wash the miata by hand >drive to car wash >pay the soapjew $6 for my wash >almost forget to pull forward before bar in front of pay machine closes >behind a sea of honda pilots and GMC acadias, muddy from driving their kids out to the rural soccer fields >finally it's my turn to enter >pull up >they tell me to adjust right >while turning my wheel right I fucking stall >shamefully turn car back on and pull up and go through the wash
I'm never going to a car wash again
Luke Roberts
is the embarrassing part that you own a miata?
Jeremiah Thomas
>get a second hand car >comes with remote locking and alarm >never had a car with either of those >lock the car with the remote then realise i left my phone in the car >guess ill just open the door with the key and grab it >open door >horn starts going apeshit >takes me like 20 seconds to realise how to turn it off just gas me
Jose Gutierrez
I think the embarrassing part is that he couldn't afford an automatic transmission
Jason Bailey
>late at night >rural road, 50 mph speed limit >minivan in front of me, just cruising >straight section of road >decide to pass him for no particular reason >drop second, signal and begin passing >fuel cut in second, shift to third >miss-shift back to first right next to him >shamefully get into correct gear and speed away >catch up with traffic, can't get further away from van >he just high beams me for the next 10 miles
Stupid games, stupid prizes.
Easton Reyes
>be me >cruising around at about 2 am, listening to shitty pop at low volume >in a loaner while My car is in the shop >use steering wheel controls to turn volume up >gets stuck, volume Turks ALL the way up >am now in the only neighborhood in either direction for 20 miles blasting Brittany spears
God I laughed so hard
Jacob Ward
Mine also involves stalling
>work at performance/mechanical shop in a "auto mall" Also have a collision shop, glass shop and Enterprise car rental in same building >we pull a few vehicles out front every morning to kind of show them off, lots of muscle cars, super cars, lifted trucks. >last summer we had a Hayabusa that we did a turbo kit on, so that would go out front most days >pulling it up front and the hot girl with big tits that works for Enterprise was walking a customer to a car >brake to let them walk in front of me, customer was also a hot milf >handgrips on bike are polished stainless or billet, something slick >go to take off after they cross in front of me >hand slips off throttle before I let clutch out >stall and they both look at me like I turned it off intentionally and was going to say something >bike doesn't want to start right back up
Anthony Morris
not me but >in parking lot >see some guy trying to reverse out in a R33 >just watching him >he stalls it halfway out >opens door >shuts door >starts car and stalls it again 5 seconds later >looks really distressed >gets car going again and starts driving >hear him stall it for a 3rd time just as he's leaving the parking lot tortured soul
Isaac Green
>drive thru >holding wallet out window like idiot trying to tap my debit >drop wallet >parked too close to drivethru window to open door >have to pull ahead >drive thru worker starts screaming at me because i hadnt paid yet >idiot behind me in line pulls ahead stopping ON TOP of my wallet >standing in the busy as fuck drive thru line looking like a total retard trying to explain that this guy needs to back up so i can get my wallet so i can pay i was praying for a bolt of lightning to end me
Nicholas Long
are you the user who just bought a Miata and just learned to drive stick?
Been driving stick for 3 years, and very rarely do I stall. But it happens, oh well.
Gabriel Campbell
why the fuck would you want to turn the volume up when its Britney spears m8 >Jokes on you for letting everyone in the neighborhood know you are a fag
Christopher Sullivan
nah, bought my miata last april.
Asher Young
>reaching over to the radio is impossible
Isaiah Garcia
jesus OP no one actually cares if you stall. it happens.
Elijah Martinez
Why not? I enjoy being silly every once and awhile Mate the volume up button was stuck down on the steering wheel, meaning that if I turned the radio down with the knob it just turned back up
Josiah Foster
>gets stuck, volume turns ALL the way up >FORGETS to use volume knob on radio >FORGETS to just turn radio off >FORGETS to just turn station selector dial to a frequency that has no radio station on it >FORGETS to press a button to switch to CD player which has no CD in it
>FORGETS to use source selector button ALSO on steering wheel to move to a quiet source
>doesn't use voice control to turn it off >doesn't use voice control to lower volume >doesn't press the mute button also on steering wheel (many have mute buttons, mine does)
Elijah Campbell
>just bought a Baiku >no idea how to ride it >just going around my subdivision and back roads near it to teach myself how to ride >2 kids on mini bikes also riding around in the back roads >kid 1 riding a wheelie around >toss me a wave as the go past me as I have a stop sign >wave back cause wheelies are cool >go to leave as they pass >stall mid turn >almost drop bike >can feel the fucking shame I know they had to have seen it >Restarted bike and gtfo b4 I get shit talked by kids
Nolan Long
>Why not? I enjoy being silly every once and awhile
Henry Campbell
Is this thing cute without the beard?
John Thomas
>controls on the steering wheel are sperate from the knob controls You autists never had a car built after 1995? >not using USB >listening to local radio like a pleb who has no taste of his own >actually using CD's still >implying I know everything about a loaner which didn't have a source button on the wheel >actually having voice control
You wanna backseat DJ the bus is the place for you.
Parker Jenkins
>I'm a faggot who'd rather sit hidden behind my b pillar than jam with the car of girls next to me. And this is why you cant get a GF mate. Nobody cares about how masculine you think you look.
Evan Hughes
POWER BUTTON?
Jaxson Gutierrez
It lasted a whole 10 seconds, why would I want to power it off? I'm not you faggots who turns shit off and runs when it does something unexpected
Ryan Lopez
This was embarrassing stories. Not minor inconvenience, I'm not a faggot!!!! 10 second stories.
Oliver Mitchell
>Be me >Be in yurop >Own two cars, Skoda Felicia and Iveco turbodaily (van) >the van is in shop, drive my skoda there >my friend will take my skoda back while i drive my relic of a van >they fixed her good, not cheap but good, head mechanic is my friend >I thank them, enter the car, drive outside, head mechanic clocks out, drives right behind me >first crossroad >forget that i switched cars >Skoda has first gear in left upper corner >Shift that thing >forget that Iveco has reverse in there >Rear end my friend, totalling his car >we're not friends anymore
Jose Ramirez
>At the store buying something or another >Leave the store, get in muh car >Go to stop sign, see two hot as fuck bitches in a convertable >Stare at them going to my right as I creep through the stop sign >BLAM right into a honda civic >His civic was trashed, my car has only minor scrapes >He keeps telling me I'm fucked when the cops get there >Feel kind of bad >Cops get there and say because it's private property no one can be at fault >Dodged that shit like keanu in the matrix.
Easton Ortiz
You fucked up, but goddamn I hate how you can basically expect people to be completely oblivious to their surroundings like that.
Hunter Edwards
I once stalled at an uphill stop sign when I was on a date & there was a qt in my car. She didn't know/care what happened
Matthew Butler
>>I'm a faggot who'd rather sit hidden behind my b pillar than jam with the car of girls next to me.
John Garcia
I tried to give road head to my gf and she got a ticket
Connor Watson
she got a ticket for having a dick?
Jack Stewart
No silly
Adam Mitchell
>week day, live across street from my old high school >Get in muh 65 chevy >Start it up and pull to end of drive way in reverse >fuck these kids are all getting out and walking to their cars >truck isn't warmed up and constantly miss fires when cool >back into street >into 1st and "stall" it >FUCK FUCK FUCK >truck has so much low end it didn't stall, just went to like 5 rpm >think it's off and try to start it. grind my started gears like a fucking idiot >realize and speed off Fucking Christ like 50 people saw me stall and grind gears like a fucking idiot. Just fucking kill me now.