Any learning to drive horror stories? I have a funny one to share.

[MerryPoppins]

Our son got his driver's permit last evening. He's been having to wait to go take the test because his sister was in the hospital, so he was very excited.

His dad let him drive the car home after the test. He did fine until he pulled into the driveway. Dad said, "Stop!" and he stomped on the pedal. Unfortunately, it was the gas instead of the brake. I have great pictures of him standing in front of the demolished garage door. Wish I understood how to post a picture. If anyone wants to post it for me, I could email it to you.

DS asked me how I could laugh and I told him it was either that or cry. I prefer to laugh. Besides, it was a learning experience. He sure knows how easy it is to have an accident, so I think he'll have a healthy respect for the car. At least DH and DS are okay and there were only a couple of scratches on our car. You should have heard the sound it made!

He wants to know if anyone else has a learning to drive horror story? A friend already told us that she ran into a tree while she was learning and knocked out her grandfather's front teeth!

 

[MosMom]

Not really any here but I thought that story was hilarious! I'm actually a pretty good driver and I always have been. My dad let me start driving when I was about 11 or 12 (we lived out in the middle of nowhere) and when I went for Drivers Ed the teacher asked "You're a very good driver, are you SURE you've never driven before?" and I lied through my teeth and said "Nope!". LOL

 

[Disney845]

Not a learning to drive story, but still kinda funny. My SO and I were at my mother's house, and she had a long drive way. SO and I had driven separately and there was some parking confusion earlier in the day so SO parked his car in the rd in front of the house. My mom's car was parked at the very top of the drive way and mine was right behind it. The community my mother lives in says you can't park in the street, so I went to move SO's car into the driveway. My mom was standing in front of her car filling up some washer fluid. I got into SO's car and was driving it up the drive way, so I wasn't driving too fast. Well I was wearing flip flops and the bottom of my shoe got stuck under the gas pedal and I couldn't lift it. I wasn't thinking fast enough and didn't use my other foot and ran his car into the back of my car, which in turn pushed it into my mom's car, which then hit her. I must have screamed when it happened pretty loudly, and the bang it made was really loud, because SO ran out of the house and my mother's neighbor came over to see if I was alright! It actually scratched the front of SO's car very very slightly, had no damage to my car or my mom's car, but my mom got a huge bruise on the side of her leg, and always tells the story of the time I "hit" her with the car!!!

 

[Banzai]

I've not had any horror stories yet, but I am not done learning!

 

[preshi]

Ohhh that reminds me of the time my boyfriend told me to back up his car out of the garage... we had just gotten done washing his dads car... I pulled out and smacked right into his dads truck... we spent all day trying to hammer out the dent before we had to pick him up that night at the airport. We told him what happened and he, bless his heart, said " Thats ok it adds character!" Man I was lucky...

When I was learning to drive my moms car I accidently ran up on the curb and almost smacked us all into a mailbox...

 

[chesirechik]

Well, when I went to take my drivers test we had to go probably about an hour on the highway to get to the testing center. I passed with no problem. My mother would NOT let me drive home though because I would have to "merge" back onto the highway. I'm still mad about that to this day. I got my license but wasn't allowed to drive home!

Oh and the first time my best friend drove the car by herself after passing her drivers test she went to get gas. She got totally confused and starting pumping DIESEL gas into her Dad's Taurus. The guy caming running out of the station yelling at her. Luckily nothing happened to the car, but I still tease her about it.

 

[Towncrier]

No learning to drive stories yet, but DS gets his learner's permit 11 weeks from tomorrow. I can hardly wait.

 

[Saffron]

When time while I was out teaching my DSD to drive, she made a right hand turn around the corner. As she did, both of the passenger side wheels went up on the sidewalk. She continued to drive with 2 wheels on the sidewalk and two on the road. I said, "You're on the sidewalk!!!!" Very calmly she said, "I know." I said, "Oh my gosh!!! Get OFF the sidewalk!!!" , which she promptly did. She would have kept driving on the sidewalk had I not told her to get off!

 

[Kermit]

When my sister was in driver's ed, the instructor told her one day that she was doing really well but that she needed to start stopping sooner when she approached a red light or stop sign. My sister replied, "You're not going to believe this, but every time I go to stop, the car just stops by itself." She didn't realize that the instructor was pushing the brake on the passenger side.

My sister had several issues while she was in driver's ed. The first time she exited the Interstate, she couldn't remember what the instructor had said about exiting, so she decided to drive on the exit ramp like she had on the entrance ramp. In other words, she drove about 55. This particular exit ramp was a clover leaf, so it was pretty scary. They usually took students out driving in groups of 3, but no one would ride with her any more after that.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Kermit

 

[Saffron]

Kermit! ROTFLOL!

 

[d.kurz]

TeeHee, Kermit!!!

After I had my driver's license for a good 2 years, my brother caved in to my non-stop pestering to teach me to drive a stick shift. We got to the deserted area and I went aroung and got in and fully CLOSED the door on my hand. DB decided that since I couldn't even got IN to his car without incident there was NO WAY he was going to give me the opportunty to burn up his clutch. It was many years later that I finally learned when the company I worked for went to an all stick fleet!

 

[goofy4tink]

Well, mine is kinda funny. There I am, about 8 1/2 months pregnant. My dd is doing her road test. The state trooper who is in the front seat, keeps looking over his shoulder as if I'm going to go into labor at any moment. Then, as my dd is finishing up her road test, she comes to a traffic light. She puts on her right directional and turns right. Well, the trooper says to her, "What do we do when we come to a red light?" I'm in the back, dying a thousand deaths. She says, "Well, in Mass we can turn right on red right? I mean, I put on my directional first." He says, "Well, yes. But, you have to stop and check the other traffic first!" OMG. But, he passed her anyway. Told her that if she could navigate rt. 9 in Framingham at rush hour she would be fine. Also think he didn't want to upset the pregnant mother in the back seat!!!

 

[Margie J]

During one of my first classes the instructor told me to enter the highway. The ramp was a curved one and I knew I was suppose to watch for oncoming traffic. Well, I looked over my left shoulder so I could merge and then I heard the sound of metal scraping. I had driven into the guardrail to my right and the instructor hit the brake.

At my last class, I had just finished my lesson and handed the wheel over to a new student. She weaved back and forth down the street. The only tiime she drove straight was while she was heading towards an electrical pole! We hit it and that was the end of her lesson.

BTW .... I had a major crush on my instructor. Boy, was he cute.

 

[RitaZ.]

My sister replied, "You're not going to believe this, but every time I go to stop, the car just stops by itself." She didn't realize that the instructor was pushing the brake on the passenger side.

ROTFL!!!

I remember the time that I offered to drive my parents to the mall, at the time I only had my learner's permit. On the way to the mall, I was driving and feeling really confident. This particular mall had a parking garage and you had to pick up your parking ticket at the entrance. As you know, these lanes tend to be narrow and I was a novice driver, not a good combination.

Well, I made a wide turn and misjudged the space, so I was heading straight for a huge concrete column!!!! My dad kept screaming, "Stop, Stop", but for some reason all I could do was focus on the column. This all happened in a matter of seconds... my dad grabbed the steering wheel and turned it just in time to keep me from hitting the column and I finally stepped on the brakes.

After this, I wasn't feeling too confident, so my dad drove home after we left the mall.

 

[mickey65]

I had just gotten my learners permit, but had not driven yet. My dad decided that driving to my grandpa's would be a good first lesson. This was on a back country road so there was no traffic. Now you have to picture this little, less than 5 foot girl driving a BIG Buick Lesabre. So there I am driving along and doing pretty well. We are getting close to my grandpa's lane way (he lived on a big farm and had a big long lane way as the driveway) So my dad tells me to put the signal light on, but he never said anything about slowing down (remember this is my first time driving in a car) So I attempt to turn into the driveway at 60km a hour. Seems that is a bit to fast to turn into a driveway. I went over the ditch and into the cow pasture. Did you know.....that cows can run pretty fast when there is a car flying towards them? Luckily I did not hit a cow, or flip the car. Shook my dad up pretty good though! My grandpa had to bring the tractor down to haul the car out of the cow pasture because I guess with the speed and impact the car kinda sunk into a mud hole. He never let me forget it either. Funny thing is when he was older and had Alzheimers, he still remembered 'one of the grand kids' landing in the cow pasture! It was a while before my dad gave me any driving lessons again. Can't imagine why though

 

[janette]

One night I was waiting for my twin sister to come home, she was out with someone she really wasn't supposed to be with and I was covering for her. There were 2 of the neighbors dogs in the yard and they were making noise so I decided that it would be best to drive them home I didn't have a license but I had taken driver's ed. I got my little sister to help and we loaded the 2 dogs (they were huge Irish Setters) in the back, as I backed out of the driveway I ran into a Phone wire pole, those little ones that come up out of the ground.

Now I wasn't supposed to be driving and my parents were asleep. My sister still wasn't home, I couldn't get the car off the pole. The trailer hitch was stuck and the car wouldn't move I went to my brother's window and got him to come outside. He helped jack the car up so it would disconnect from the pole and I was able to drive it off. There was no damage to the car but the pole was in bad shape.

My sister finally got home, I can't remember what we did with those *!@* dogs. I thought all was well until a couple of weeks later when my mom & I got in the car to go somewhere. There was a repair truck fixing the damage to the pole. My mom says "Oh did you run into that?" I was dumb struck! What could I say but "Yes". My mom says "I thought it must have been you, since you haven't been driving that long." Nothing more was said. I certainly learned that parents sometimes know more than we think they do I don't think they know the whole story though

 

[worm761]

thank you. i am laughing so hard i am crying!!

 

[janette]

Your picture Melissa! It's wonderful

 

[MerryPoppins]

Thanks janette. Doesn't he look thrilled that Mom is taking pictures of his disaster?

He is loving the stories, though. You guys are making him feel a little better. I think he thought he was the only person who had ever messed up while driving. I couldn't share anything because I was too chicken to drive. DH made me start when we were dating in college. My drivers ed teacher in high school told me that I would "kill somebody someday" so I quit trying. Just renewed my permit for YEARS! LOL!