I drove my car through the garage door. how is your day going

I just totally went stupid. It was open and by habit I hit the garage door button and started to drive out without realizing what I had done.

On top of that, both my husband and son had obnoxious dental procedures tonight (son had four wisdom teeth pulled, husband needed some scaling thingy) AND I had to work AND I had some guests to entertain AND blah blah blah

GRRR.

I left for Chicago an hour early this morning for a thing for class (I'm a design major). A 30 min drive took 50 min, spent 30 min looking for a parking spot, finally parked in a parking garage even though I had no cash, spent another 30 min walking around the city in heals trying to find the damn building (none of them were marked!) while guys were whistling at me and one guy was following me. My friends were txting me the intersection of the building but kept getting it wrong.I couldn't find it so I spent another 20 min looking for an ATM, then looking for an ATM not locked in a damn building (guy still following me at this point) finally find one and it wont take my card! Finally get cash from ANOTHER ATM but didn't know where I was/where my car was. (guy still there) Finally find it and have to pay $20 to get it out of a garage where it was parked for an hour only! It took me 20 min to get home, at which point one friend finally sends the correct description of the building- after the field trip is over! 

I will now probably have to write an essay to make up for not being there- but I was there, just not in the building! AHHH

I feel better now

Well, that's fairly comical. At least you didn't drive into your house like these people I know. They overestimated and ended up destroying a chunk of the kitchen. And thanks for reminding me I haven't been to the dentist in a really really long time : O

My day hasn't been bad.

My day...

Woke up with food hangover (post 4-day-binge-streak), am swollen, red, sweaty, increadibly bloated, and ofcourse uncomfortable. Forced down some green tea, and then some lunch which really did not help the discomfort. Then I find out there is a family dinner planned at some italian restaurant. Great, I love italian, but post-binge it is going to kill my stomach. As if I dont already feel like I have a block of cement in my stomach that occasionally melts and moves up my esophagus, only to find no gag reflex and come back down, leaving a wonderful taste.

Besides that, I have 3 essays and 3 lab reports to write today, a presentation to plan, and a test to study for, in addition to the regular homework, for school. It's going to be lovely.

AND I just noticed somehow my account in a mmorpg got messed up, and I lost some good items...

Although I have to say, the first two stories are really great! I'm not the only one having a crap day then, sorta makes my day feel slightly better =]

my boyfriend of 3 yrs and i broke up last night.

saddest part is, its not because of some stupid 19 yr old reason.

we could honestly marry right now if it weren't for the fact that our lives are going in COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. something neither of us should have to sacrifice for.

My father drove through his garage door on multiple occasions and had to get several new ones.

Original Post by alyssa2012:

my boyfriend of 3 yrs and i broke up last night.

saddest part is, its not because of some stupid 19 yr old reason.

we could honestly marry right now if it weren't for the fact that our lives are going in COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. something neither of us should have to sacrifice for.

I'm so sorry, that's 100x worse. You can't go find another love at Home Depot and have him installed in 2-4 weeks.

mars, do you know if this can be claimed under my home owners policy. Ask your dad!

Don't feel bad a few years ago, I backed out of my garage forgot something, was going to drive back into the garage but decided to run in instead, stopped the garage door high enough for me to get through, got out of the car and forgot to put the running car into park.  I stepped out of the car, it took off through the garage door scraping the top and plowing into 2 snowmobiles before it finally stopped. 

The snowmobiles saved the car from plowing into the family room but the snowmachines were totaled, the garage door needed to be replaced and one wall had to be redone. :-/ 

Thank God, I didn't get run over( I tried to hit the brake from outside the car -don't ever do that, the car knocked me down, i was lucky).  The home insurance covered most of the damage.

Now you reminded me of something that happened when I was a teenager.  My sister and I were driving and living at home so we had 4 cars to deal with.  Getting one out usually involved moving several others. 

One morning, my sister pulled my mother's car out of the driveway, put it in park, moved her car out, put it in park but didn't turn it off and started walking to my mother's car to put it back and hers jumped out of park into reverse and took off down the street with my sister chasing it.  It ran into a neighbor's car and was trying to push it into yet another car when my sister caught it and put the brake on.  Her car was totaled.  The family called it a car suicide.

So this reminds me of one of my finer moments....

true story..... 2 weeks after getting my licence...

I had just left a friends house and pulled into a drive way to turn around... WELL at the same time I reached for my sunglasses and they fell to the floor.... getting all confused ( haha), instead of putting it into reverse and backing out.... I uhmmm still in "drive" drove into the corner of the garage and it crumbled on top of my car :)

Yeah.... so of course out comes a 6'5 man in his underwear screaming.... who I soon find out is a cop....  I have never freaked out so bad in my life... hyperventilating... crying the kind of cry where you have snot running all over your face, wasn't pretty. The cop ended up feeling sorry for me and hugging me.... saying it's going to be alright. People were driving by taking phone pics.... The poor guys cruiser and wife's car was trapped in the garage for three days....

It reminded me of some youtube video about bad women drivers....

Backing up seems to be a weakness for female drivers.  My two fender benders were both from backing up and not checking the blind spot well enough.  My mom backed into my garage door, luckily only denting it a little.  Guys seem to have the more spectacular freeway crashes (though it might just be that they won't fess up to the minor fender benders).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n65fw6zPGpA&am p;feature=PlayList&p=A024237B8BA0798E& ;index=1

lol bad women drivers video

lmao!!!  Sorry, can't help it.  It's funny but it's not...  Least you didn't make as much of a mess as my mum did.  Happened when my dad first went into hospic and she was stressed as hell.  Anyway, she was pulling up on the drive and instead of pushing the brake she pushed the the gas.  God knows what she was thinking, but she swirved and hit the front of the house.  All my dad could say when he was well enough to tease her was, 'why couldn't you hit the garage door, I wanted a new garage door'.  Also on top of that the dog who was about 6 months at the time was too scared to go anywhere near the window for months.

My day isn't going so hot either.

You know how I deliver drugs? Well. Some guy was stalking me today. For about 30 miles he followed me. He stopped when I stopped, turned when I turned, never got more than an inch away from my bumper. When I went into a nursing home he waited on the street outside until I left, then it continued. Finally I called the cops and pulled into a driveway with people standing in it so he would think I was getting out. He finally left. I was too afraid to go back to the pharmacy wharehouse to drop of my car so I went home. Then my boyfriend came with me back to the warehouse tonite to drop off my car. As I was about to punch my code into the door I can hear the alarm going off inside.

**ck that. I was not about to go in. So I'm sitting here.Being totally freaked out.

About a year ago I was at my parents house and my mom and I were heading out to go shopping. Her big Chevy Truck was parked in the carport and my dad's small commuter car was parked in the driveway. She started backing out of the carport and I glanced in the side mirror, saw my dad's car right in her way...so I yelled "Stop!, Stop!", she didn't...she kept going...the third time I yelled "Stop!", she turns to me and says "what's wrong with you?"....lol..

I said "You just hit dad's car". She didn't even feel it, because we were in this big truck. Her eyes got real big and she said "Oh well...let's go." and she tried to just leave!

I was like "Mom, we have to tell dad"...her reply "no, we don't"... So, me being the wonderful grown-up, compassionate, evil daughter I am...went into the house with her yelling at me.

I walked in, my dad saw me, and promptly said "What did she hit?"...I gave him the rundown and he's say's..."okay...give me a sec, I have to look mad"...

We go outside where my mom is glaring at me, and I ask "Why didn't you stop when I yelled for you to?"...Her reply "You didn't say why I needed to stop"...lol... We still give her hell about it :)

Lol, and some of you think there is no God!

O.K.  I think I had a stroke - hence my name.  I pulled in the driveway tonight, reached to hit the garage door opener and proceeded to gun the engine, drove through the garage door and into the wall on the other side.  I made a hole in my daughter's bedroom and not can't open the door from the house to the garage.  Not to mention that now my car is trapped in the garage because the garage door is a mangled mess!   I just kept thinking, why is the car not stopping? 

Word of advice...always listen to ur folks...my dad was supposed to pik me from university...i decided to get a ride with my friend instead....all was fine until i came home from university....my car is in the driveway....me being really anal when it comes to parking.....decide to park well.....i so wish i didnt....i reverse...drive a bit forward...when to hit the brake...KABOOM!! i had pressed the accelerator. had i waited for my dad, this would have never happened. i wish someone would build a time machine already!

Original Post by spirochete:

Original Post by alyssa2012:

my boyfriend of 3 yrs and i broke up last night.

saddest part is, its not because of some stupid 19 yr old reason.

we could honestly marry right now if it weren't for the fact that our lives are going in COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. something neither of us should have to sacrifice for.

I'm so sorry, that's 100x worse. You can't go find another love at Home Depot and have him installed in 2-4 weeks.

mars, do you know if this can be claimed under my home owners policy. Ask your dad!

Call both your auto insurer and home insurer. My mother drove her car through the garage door and out through the back of the garage. The car insurance fixed the car and the home insurance fixed the home and reimbursed for ruined items in the garage. She did about $5000 damage to car and about $12,000 damage to house and belongings. We had to pay the deductible on both.

Weirdest zombie thread bump ever.