Embarrassing stories thread

>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

is the embarrassing part that you own a miata?

>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

I think the embarrassing part is that he couldn't afford an automatic transmission

>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.

>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

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

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

>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

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.

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

nah, bought my miata last april.

>reaching over to the radio is impossible

jesus OP no one actually cares if you stall. it happens.

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

>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)

>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

>Why not? I enjoy being silly every once and awhile

Is this thing cute without the beard?

>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.

>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.

POWER BUTTON?

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

This was embarrassing stories. Not minor inconvenience, I'm not a faggot!!!! 10 second stories.

>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

>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.

You fucked up, but goddamn I hate how you can basically expect people to be completely oblivious to their surroundings like that.

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

>>I'm a faggot who'd rather sit hidden behind my b pillar than jam with the car of girls next to me.

I tried to give road head to my gf and she got a ticket

she got a ticket for having a dick?

No silly

>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.