Well, time for a good story I guess. So it's night time, and I'm leaving the Cheesecake Factory with a couple of yummy slices of Cheesecake, heading home. Decide to go a back way down towards the coast, a more scenic route. Zipping on down the street, light ahead turns green, and then abruptly turns yellow. I'm in that zone.....gun it and charge ahead, or do a hard stop (risking the cheesecake falling over!!). As a police station is right there, I opt for the hard stop, but I overshoot a little into the intersection (trying to save the cheesecake!)

So, there are no cars around, and I see the reason the light changed so quickly is the trolley was pulling out from the station across the intersection. I back up about 20 feet...sitting there chillin' with the music on while the trolley starts up. Wham wham wham!!!! Something, or somebody, bangs on the top of my car! I'm thinking...car jacking? someone just ran into me? WTF??

Turns out I backed up right under the damn crossing signal, which had just thumped down on top of my car, and bounced a few times. GRRRRRRR.....so I reach out the window, push it up, and zip forward a few feet. Actually no damage occurred, but I bet the guy that had pulled up behind me had a great laugh at the expense of a dumb Corvette driver!! Fortunately he couldn't see my embarrassed red face.

So, lesson learned....pay more attention. I was just cruisin' and plain never saw the signal bar. At least all ended well except for my honor.....I pledge to not embarrass our Corvette family like that again!!!

 

Wow you are luck no damage and no trolley running over the front of your Vette

 

Actually refreshing to hear. We have a lot of pretend Richard Petty's on the forum that well you know. We are all human and prone to mistakes. Sounds like a nice cruise anyway.

I'm happy your car was not damaged.

 

Yeah, I was pretty fortunate....I thought for sure when I got home I'd have some dents or paint scuffs, but the cross bar was actually extremely light and padded. Just my pride took some beating

 

I Vote for retracing the incident which will require getting more cheesecake

 

They had you in mind when they designed it.

BJK

 

Sounds like you saved the cop a few extra calories.

 

I like the Vanilla Bean.

 

that turns out to be a funny story that could have been a little worse, or a lot worse. glad the only red you're telling us about is embarrassment.

 

 

Good story and thanks for sharing. It happens, glad to hear you are safe and not cleaning cheese cake out of the AC vents!

 

...what he said

 

Good story, funny and fortunately it ended well, thanks for sharing and enjoy the cake.

 

I wonder how many cheesecake runners those cops see each day.

 

Great story, glad it turned out harmless.

 

Hey, we all make mistakes. You were fortunate...no damage to the cheesecake or your car!

 

Lucky you don't have a vert!

 

Lesson learned. Be careful now your vette only has 8 more lives.

 

Glad that you didn't suffer any damage to your car.

 

don't sweat the guy behind you - you just told 3 million CF's and we are all laughing now lucky for you its with you and not at you. I don't have the guts to confess to some of the dumb stuff I have done!