Coming home today, in a rather sudden and massive thunderstorm, I’m driving along and come up behind a car going slightly slower than I am. With the vast amount of rain I can make out only that something odd is happening in the driver’s area. The car pulls over to the right hand lane and as I pull closer, the driver is wearing the classic yellow, hooded raincoat, the door window is down, and the driver’s arm is out the window sort of waving. As I pull alongside, I almost drove off the road from laughter as the driver isn’t waving, but furiously working to keep the windshield clear with a long handled, gas station style squeegee because the wipers aren’t working. After a couple miles they pulled into a shopping center, but that just made my day. Anyone else ever seen drivers doing some weird crap out there?
Ooh…that happened to me once. I was working nights, I headed out to work and was on a long bridge over water (in other words…no place to pull over) and my wipers went out in a heavy downpour. I panicked because I could not see a thing. I slowed way down and made it to the other side and the rain let up. That was a scary situation.
I was with my sister, I was driving, and we pulled up at a red light. She looked over into the car pulled up along side of us and started screaming. The people in that car were wearing masks! Freaky. My sister thought they were aliens.
I once saw a minivan that seemed to have some sort of hyrolic system. Those things are funny on any car, but extremely funny on a minivan.
Another time I saw some old honda with an extra large exhuast tip on it. I know that is common, but this thing had to be 12 inches around. The car also had a wing that looked like it was off of a 747. I laughed my ass off.
broys once saw an older couple driving naked in south Columbus.
We inherited a “grandma car” (Comet or something else lame from the 60s) and we had to rig up the windshield wipers to get them to work. We tied a piece of sturdy clothesline to the drivers’ side wiper and stretched it so it reached inside the car. Then we would pull on it to start the motion, and once they got going, the wipers would begin to work on their own after a few seconds. The car also had an
enormous backfire which frightened many a passenger (“is someone shooting at us?”). I miss that car.
This is pretty discusting, but one day me and a friend were driving down the freeway when the guy in the truck ahead of us stuck his arm out the window and started wiping boogers on the top of the cab. By the way he was digging, he must have had a pretty good collection.