Today's Story!
 

Dear friends,

I would like to share with you a sequence of events that happened to me today, partially to vent and partially to make some humor out of it.

So I took today off from work and decided to take the girl (the Z) for a drive in the morning. The birds are chirping, the girls are in short skirts, the car is clean. I approach the highway ramp to get on the 287 and the usual course of action is to accelerate and feel the Gs. A few meters before the ramp a brilliant individual realizes that he also needs to bee the 287! Well hot damn, since he clearly owns the road he pulls onto the highway (barely avoiding to hit the divider himself) right in front of me! I knew that I had three options:

A) Hit him hard and hope that he goes to the hospitals so I can visit him there to finish the job and kill him with my two own hands.

B) Change the gravitational constant of the universe, assigning it a negative number to it so we can both repel each other and float in the air.

C) Break as hard as I can and pull away and hope to avoid an accident.

I decided to go with C. I break hard and pull away. I manage to avoid him but my front right tire hits the curb. The car bounces back like a rubber ball and I scream (not unlike a little girl) NooOoOoOoOoOoOoOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I actually startled myself. In the meanwhile I hunk my horn and the guy in front of me, he puts his hand through his sunroof of his SUV and waves at me! What the **** is that?!

At this point I have no idea how bad the wheel is... My beautiful sports package wheels... I find the first place I can pull over and I check the wheel. I have some scratches on the edges, not horrible, but the scratches on my heart will never heal. I take it to the place that did my clear bra installation and he tells me he can fix it completely for $150 bucks.

At this point I am beginning to calm down and I find this deserted curvy road to play around with the handling of the car. I begin this very exciting drive and a few minutes later, TWO squirrels one on each side of the road run TOWARD each other in the middle of the road. They reach each other, somehow scare each other (what the ****!) and one of them runs back and the other sees my car and just STOPS. I have already hit the breaks and slowing down pretty much as hard as I can. He just sits there on his legs with his stupid hands in the air looking at me. I reach him as about 10 mph and THUMP! I hit him! Oh lord! I gone and kill' a squirrel! I think to myself he looked depressed and was probably suicidal anyway, plus, I am helping evolution, one squirrel at a time. Then I see the little bastard run out from under the car! UN-FUCKIN-BELIEVABLE! Then this titanium-alloy rodent runs back into the field.

At this point, I decide to go back home. I pull out of this road and I see this gas station that has a pretty good price on their 93 octane fuel and I pull in to get some gas. I hand the employee my card and I say "Please fill it up with premium." And I hand him my credit card. I see him pushing some buttons and I hear the gas being pumped. Then I happen to look and see that he is pumping regular gas in the car! What the ****! I jump out of the car and I tell him "I asked for premium!" and I stop the pump. Do you know what he tells me?

"We are out of premium because we didn't receive delivery. You can't tell the difference in power and you will save some money."

At this point I have no patience, so I yell at him "ARE YOU ON CRACK?!" I begin to explain to him WHY it is important to not to put lower octane fuel in the car, but half way through my explanation his puzzled look makes me realize that I am wasting time. I ask him to charge my card and give my card back.

So now I have a scratched rim, squirrel palm prints on my bumper, 5 gallons of regular gas in my tank and 5 years of lost life-span. I should have just gone to work.

I take the car home and go for a walk.

FML.

Sorry to hear man. We all have crap days.

In the first and last situation you should have killed those people and then dumped the bodies in the Hudson River. No one would notice, and it's an easy fix; you could have even used the guy's SUV to haul the bodies over to the water. Better luck tomorrow!

:shakes head: my god this beautiful day has just died

omg that squirrel story is awesome :roflpuke2:

just standing there with its hands raised.

maybe he loved the car and wanted to hug it? :roflpuke2:

I hit a cat once. at 30ish. stupid thing just jumped infront and just looked at me.

he flew out of the back and somehow walks away like nothing happened.

I knew cats were tough but daaamn :roflpuke2:

That may have been one of the best stories I've read on this forum. Thanks for sharing! Isn't it the truth that when you're just being a nice guy, one thing after another happens? Uff! I really did laugh hard at my desk. We've all been there.

Rep for you for my favorite story ever on here.

That is the day from hell right there. Worst I got is 1 month after I bought my brand new 08 GTI, I was getting out of my car holding something in my hand. Anyway, I instinctively bend over and grab it before it falls to the ground, in the process, my blackberry case holder that I had on my waist hit my car in the worst possible way.

Basically the ONLY METAL PART of the case hit the door and proceeded to carve a 1 and a half inch gash into it. Everyday for the next 15 months of ownership(until I got my Z!) I would stare at it and it at me, as if mocking me in some way. It may sound like I'm overacting but I don't care.

And what was so important that I could not let drop to the ground? A piece of paper. It wasn't even anything important. :(

So, I basically got rid of the scratch by getting a new car, let someone else deal with it. :)

I am glad that you enjoyed it. :tiphat:

I hope the weekend would be better! :icon14:

I've heard of babe magnets... but squirrel magnets...wow the Z has it all,I'm betting it was a gurl squirrel.

Well look at it this way... you may have had a bad day away from work, but at least you were in the Z on a beautiful day. Other people are at work and dreaming of driving their Z...like me.

Thanks for a hilarious read!! :tup:

hahahahaha, man, i'm sorry all that stuff happened to you, but it made for one helluva read. highly entertaining! hopefully the rest of your weekend goes better!

It's Holy Week. Perhaps it's a signal for you to go to church! Kidding. :)

sucks about the car, but at least it's not worse. I can't imagine paying someone to pump my gas.

I know, I don't enjoy it. But here in NJ, we must!
:ugh2:

yeah, that's one thing i noticed the first time i went to jersey was that attendants fill up the gas. my friend told me its the law. do they have that for safety reasons? don't trust the average human to pump their own gas?

I am not exactly sure why myself. I think it may be a union law, but I could be wrong. I actually kinda like pumping the gas myself.

Man what a day, Im gonna +1 rep ya just for the story time.

Your Z is still in your driveway at the end of the day... instead of the salvage yard... =)

Great story, made me LOL. 3 strikes and your out, good thing you parked it after that. :p

Hopefully tomorrow will be a brighter day!

damn, sorry to hear... not sure if this makes you feel any better, but my younger kid got sick right after drinking a full glass of orange juice and reverse thrusted through his mouth and nose and man, it was not pretty.

yes, i got to clean the table, all the chairs, floor, his cloths, put him in a bath... typical for me though. :D

I've said it before and I'll Say it again!


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Some days are just cursed like that and everything goes to crap. Glad the next day is always only a few hours away.

287 sucks. I drive up to Boston from Philly a couple times a year, and I always dread 287 around the TZ bridge. The construction work seems endless yet nothing seems to get done.


Good to hear your car is ok.

Thank you all for you kind comments! It certainly made me feel better!

The first week after I got my new car, I parked it in the garage. I opened the garage door and some stupid dog ran inside. The owner ran into my garage to retrieve the stupid dog before I had a chance to tell him to stop. He basically picked the dog up and held in his arm, and the stupid dog was waving his two front paws and left two 5-in gashes on the driver's side's door. Worse, my car is black.

Now the car looks like it's driven by Wolverines.

Man, sorry 'bout your day! There's always tomorrow...

I can relate to your squirrel story - back in the early- to mid-eighties I owned a 1982 Mazda RX7 (up until I bought the Z it was the best car I ever owned). Not too long after I bought it, I left work late, so it was dark out - just the street lights giving some (but not much) light. I'm just gunning it and shifting into 3rd when something in front and to my right caught my eye - it was a cat that decided to try and run across the road at exactly the wrong time! I realized that my only hope of not hitting the cat was if either the cat decided to quickly stop and turn back, or if I slammed on the brakes as hard as I could - which even then probably didn't guarantee that I'd miss the cat, but would guarantee that I'd probably lose control of the car (and who knows what would happen then). So, I decided to let evolution take its course - I let off of the gas, but didn't slam on the brakes. I heard that cat's head hit the undercarriage of my RX7 at least 3 times. As I drove on I looked in the rear view mirror and saw the cat still standing but now walking (instead of running) across the road - I'm guessing it had one hell of a headache the rest of that night!

After reading, I find it lucky that what happened was all, you could of rear ended up so that would of been a total Z, rims scuff up you're lucky. Lucky it wasn't a bird or eagle or deer that jumped in again destroying your car.

I too had the same issue when I got my civic I accidentally put about 5 gallons of regular into my car and freaked out, it shouldn't harm it put some techron concentrated in your car run it all out then fill her up with some 93 octane!

lol:icon18:

Would have lost my ish
 

Dude! While reading your thread I was like poor guy and then I came to the gas part. I am sooo F'ing glad that it's self serve where i live. I think i would have flipped out and lost my cool at that! I proly would have beat his *** right then and there because that type of thing enrages me. I mean who in the hell is he to just put whatever the hell he wants in your 30k+ baby. It just strikes a nerve. The squirl, ehhh it happens

Well at least you took your car for drive, but sorry for your mishap. I work today and was one of the most TERRIBLE days!! That is why I'm drinking some good Whiskey to go to sleep.

Tomorrow is my day to drive the Z around!