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What's the Most Embarassing Thing You've Left atop Your Car... Before Driving Off
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I was going to say my grandmother, but you win
Never done the leave-something-on-the-roof-and-drive-off thing yet. (Well that's put a curse on it)
We had a party one day and were drinking beer when one of my friends decided to place in the garage. We two went there. We opened the doors and smoked for a while, putting the beer on the roof of the car and sat into it. Then we heard a bumping sound and a crack on the front window appeared
Well I left an envelope with a cheque in it on the roof (but I wasn't the one who drove off). Can't remember what the cheque was for either.
I remember one of my mates turned up late to a football game as he had lost his boots after leaving them on top of his car before driving off.
I remember one of my mates turned up late to a football game as he had lost his boots after leaving them on top of his car before driving off.
A costco package of feta cheese...fell off on a very busy street and was smushed...that whole area stunk for about half-a-day...
i thought it was funny
i thought it was funny
I left my wallet on my bumper once. It traveled over thirty miles right where i left it and actually made it all the way home.
I'm assuming that was not a hard drive based iPod?MmmWhat?
A baby?
Seriously?
Wow.
As for me, I haven't done that...yet. I'm sure that my time's coming.
Although I did leave my iPod on the floor of my grandpa's riding lawnmower and have it fall off and me almost run over it, coming close to shredding it to bits with the blade. I felt extremely smart after that.
A Cherry Coke slurpee from 7-11, but it actually stayed on there all the way through the parking lot until I realized, as I was about to turn onto the road, that I didn't have my icy sugary goodness with me. Emergency! So I got it down and drank it and it was good.
my ipod and a pair of nice headphones. we noticed when the headphones flew off the back. we pulled over assuming the worst, but the ipod had caught the rubber between the door and the roof and stuck. The headphones looked okay...until a minivan blasted them to pieces.
Nothing yet for me, as I have a trunk and use it for everything. However, a friend of mines' mother who I rode to school with in early grade school used to leave coffee mugs atop her car ALL the time. After breaking one, it was to plastic she went. So everytime we left his house, first stop sign= coffee flavored windscreen fluid, and a blue cylinder cascading (vomiting the brown liquid everywhere) down the windscreen, bouncing off the end of the hood and rolling under the car. If we were lucky she ran over it and it would be seen some 25 feet away.
a couple pizzas when I used to delivery pizzas in high school (needless to say they had to be remade).
Either my brother or I left Mario Bros. 3 on my mom's car when we first got the game....still scarred from losing that game. Had to wait a couple months (if i remember correctly) before my mom finally bought us a new one.
Either my brother or I left Mario Bros. 3 on my mom's car when we first got the game....still scarred from losing that game. Had to wait a couple months (if i remember correctly) before my mom finally bought us a new one.
I used to laugh about a boyfriend who would leave plastic cups of coke on his car roof virtually everyday and drive off -- after a few minutes the coke would spill all over the windshield, of course. He did it with coffee, too, and I always made fun of him.
Years later, drained after a gruesome whole-day job interview, I left my Macbook Pro on the roof of my own car and drove off. After a few blocks while I was stopped at a red light the woman in the car next to mine started making crazy gestures and pointing to my roof and I finally realized that my Mac was sitting on top of it, jumped out and rescued it. It was fine and I felt like the stupidest person in the universe. Losing the MacBook Pro would have been a disaster.
Years later, drained after a gruesome whole-day job interview, I left my Macbook Pro on the roof of my own car and drove off. After a few blocks while I was stopped at a red light the woman in the car next to mine started making crazy gestures and pointing to my roof and I finally realized that my Mac was sitting on top of it, jumped out and rescued it. It was fine and I felt like the stupidest person in the universe. Losing the MacBook Pro would have been a disaster.
a $10,000 violin.
yeah, it wasn't one of my greater moments. it fell of on the road, luckily it was in a good case. afterwards I had it inspected thoroughly, and it was fine. Still has the same sound... i was so lucky... i love that violin. it's irreplaceable.
glad i got lucky... i still have nightmares about that. my violin is only 70 years old though...
yeah, it wasn't one of my greater moments. it fell of on the road, luckily it was in a good case. afterwards I had it inspected thoroughly, and it was fine. Still has the same sound... i was so lucky... i love that violin. it's irreplaceable.
I lost my orchestra music at the beginning of this semester and I thought of this same situation just about when I realized about that
glad i got lucky... i still have nightmares about that. my violin is only 70 years old though...
a $10,000 violin.
yeah, it wasn't one of my greater moments. it fell of on the road, luckily it was in a good case. afterwards I had it inspected thoroughly, and it was fine. Still has the same sound... i was so lucky... i love that violin. it's irreplaceable.
glad i got lucky... i still have nightmares about that. my violin is only 70 years old though...
Man, you really got lucky... never thought a violin could actually survive a fall like that.
I understand you waking up in the middle of the night, with a cold sweat worried about the instrument... I would if something happens to my French Horn a $10,000 violin.
yeah, it wasn't one of my greater moments. it fell of on the road, luckily it was in a good case. afterwards I had it inspected thoroughly, and it was fine. Still has the same sound... i was so lucky... i love that violin. it's irreplaceable.
glad i got lucky... i still have nightmares about that. my violin is only 70 years old though...
Wow, that must have been a killer case.
Mine could have been quite disastrous, I left my work keys (one of which was a master key to the building) on my car roof a couple years ago. Thankfully they slid down the windshield at the stop sign leaving the parking lot.
Man, you really got lucky... never thought a violin could actually survive a fall like that.
it's a really really solid case. and it just fell off when i was pulling out onto the road. So it basically just fell 6 feet from the top of the car. not really that bad. and luckily nobody ran over it. i just get scared thinking about what COULD have happened.