The telling off part was more of a shock reaction to what had just happened, and yes in hindsight it was a bad reaction, you know what they say young and stupid.
Had my dad not been so embarresed about what had just happened i probbably would have copped a backhander for speaking to him in that tone.

 

He can't, he just used up all of his luck!

 

Don't feel to bad. I was pulling the 400 Turbo out of my 70 SS Chevelle back in the early 70s. In the driveway, alone. When the trans came down it pinned me under the car for an hour until a Neighbors kid came by and I hollered for him to raise the car. ( It was on jack stands) just not high enough.

 

I guess my parking brake doesn't hold well because I washed her, put her in neutral with brake pulled up and got out of the car with car running to do something, and she rolled away from me and into the street. Thank god no cars or others around. Only my 13 year old daughter saw what happened. I'll never do that again!

 

I just listened to the radio and wondered why I didn't put the cordless phone on the floor so I could reach it.

 

I've found that if you don't get it pulled up to the last click it doesn't have the same holding power. If the console door is open it is sometimes more difficult to fully deploy the parking brake.

 

ONE of my stupid mistakes. Pushing my car up the driveway and snapped my achilles tendon. Had to chase car while it started to roll down the driveway. 2 older sons in the house sleeping.

 

Ouch!!!!!!!!

 

Looking forward to meeting you at the Kennesaw / acworth meet.

but seriously - glad nothing was broken (on the car or on you). We've all had a slip up here or there!

 

does this mean no nookie for you now?

 

I rolled into the folk's shop door once...was only about 2-3 inches from the car anyways when it started rolling and it didn't do anything to either...BUT that doesn't stop the fear of OMG ITS MOVING!!!

 

It is a funny story since it has a decent ending.
Glad you're ok.

 

Thanks for the laugh, I had a similiar result when I took my BSMs off, but there ugly and not going back on so now I have flames on the sides!!!!!!!!!!

 

HAHAHA indeed!!! Can't wait!

 

 

Glad to hear you are ok. We had a local Mustang guy that was killed under his car recently when it rolled of jackstands. Remember to be safe and always use wheel chocks!

 

I learned that wheel chocks work much better in front and back of the wheel (as opposed to being stored in the hatch compartment) when I was lowering the back off the jack stands. My parking space has an ever-so-slight decline when facing nose-in to the spot. My jack is on casters, so when the car started creeping forward and left, the jack's casters got lodged into a rut on the asphalt, and tipped to the left... dropping my left rocker panel onto my jack stand... I've left the hole alone as a reminder of just how costly STUPIDITY is.

 

Once I was in a grocery store parking lot (fortunately mostly empty) and parked my RX7 turbo next to the front door. Thought I had put on the e-brake but hadn't all the way and I was about ten feet from the car when it started rolling backwards through the parking lot. Like idiots, me and my buddy tried to get behind it and plant our feet and stop it but it just pushed us all the way back at about 2mph until it lightly bumped up against one of those cables that holds up a telephone pole. No damage, except to my ego.

Another time (unrelated, but another embarrassing story) I was driving my beater Sunfire when I was a salesman, it was a dark night...I was stopping at this laundromat to throw my shirt in the dryer (I had gotten caught in a downpour about an hour beforehand). The laundromat was in a shopping plaza that had a Chinese restaurant in it with about a million people standing outside. Well I went to turn left into the lot and poor lighting I didn't see that I was turning into one of those mini-curbs (thought it was an open lot) and hit that **** at like 20mph and blew off all four hubcaps. There was like ten people from the restaurant line running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to catch my rolling hubcaps. I was so embarrassed I didn't even dry my shirt, I just went home.

 

Well my episode didn't involve a car. Just finished sailing in a regatta. Got the 25 foot, 2900 pound Merit 25 sailboat on it's trailer. I was cranking the wheeled jack to get it off the towing ball when it starts rolling down the hill. Forgot to put wooden chocks behind the trailer wheels.

At the bottom of the hill, people are gathering for the award ceremony, and the boat and trailer are heading straight for them. About 200 people.

I grab the trailer tongue, dig in my feet.........to no avail. I then start cranking down the jack until the tongue of the trailer digs into the dirt. It stops. All 200 people break out in applause.

The abuse I received after that was terminal.

 

My 68 Camaro(auto) was left idling during the winter to stay warm while I ran inside my gf's house. Upon returning it was cruising in reverse out of the driveway across a street and into a house across the street. The house was unoccupied Thank God!! My shift levers had become packed with slush and froze so putting it into Park actually didn't do a Damn thing.:o
Glad your story had the ending it did.