I got a call the other day from my daughter " Dad can you come to my work, mom has broke the gearbox, no wait she's found it" end call.
WTF, turns out the bride has had access to the hospital car pool auto vehicles recently and swapping to her own manual car she had put her foot on the brake pedal and tried to ram the gearstick into reverse, completely forgetting the clutch pedal.
I'm not taking the piss here, I've had many such problems switching vehicles and not engaging the brain. Working for the AA in Englandshire I regularly drove upwards of 20 vehicles a day and mishaps were many. Two that stand out are, delivering a SAAB to the factory, I had to park some twenty minutes away from reception and walk over to hand in the keys. Do ya think I could get the bloody keys out, after half an hour trying everything I could think of, I had to bite the bullet and leave a $60,000 car with the keys in the ignition and hike to find Help.
ME; "Mate I've just bought you a car in but the cars poked, the keys won't come out the bastard ignition, bloody heap of junk" ....
SAAB bloke: ."did you put the car in reverse? has to be in reverse to get the keys out dude"
ME: "FFS, it's parked about a mile away with the keys in"...
SAAB bloke: "See you in about 40 minutes then He He"
1 and a half hours after arriving I drove off, all I had to do was hand in some fuggin car Keys!
TVR, key less entry, unlock with key fob still can't open door ??? turns out there's a button under the wing mirror to release door catch, 2 phone calls and an hour later I actually got in the the drivers seat
Two hours on a Quad bike, Sweet but as soon as I got familiar with the damn thing I'd use the clutch to change gear.......except the clutch lever is a brake lever so every five minutes or so I'd do an emergency stop much to the displeasure of the guys behind me.
Owners of old British bikes and Japas must have tales to tell!
Clearly I'm cross vehicle dysfunctional but I know I'm not alone.
Time to Fess up guys, what where and how have you malfunctioned vehicularly?
Oh bugger
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Originally Posted by skidmark
and then getting in a car on a wet road. Bad idea!! First corner, and WTF are we doing sideways?? 
Then opposite lock and full throttle and point the right side of the boat at said obstacle, throttle off (louder UH OH!!) rinse and repeat,
inadvertantly (on purpose) lining up the next even bigger obstacle... all the time acting like we were way the hell outa control. 
Oh man that takes me back, two different trucks at the Fire station, controls on opposite sides to each other like you mention, the difference being when you put the wipers on to indicate you were turning or indeed put the indicators on because it had started raining, there were four or five ugly bastards on board to take the piss.
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