Automotive comedy in words not pictures

There are plenty of funny car-related pictures but this is mostly for humorous stories and pictures only if they relate directly to the story.

I owned a ubiquitous blue early Honda Civic in the 1970's. I was walking to work one day and saw two women beside their very familiar blue Civic and looking perplexed. So I asked if I could be of any assistance. It seems they had locked their keys inside the car and now were looking at an expensive service and being late for work. I reached into my pocket without a word, took out my Honda key and opened their door. They were absolutely flabbergasted and so was I but, I did not show it. I said you are welcome to their thanks and continued to walk. I wonder if they thought I was a thief who could get into any car or what.

Maybe they were out joyriding in your car ;)

erohslc wrote: Maybe they were out joyriding in your car ;)

That is humorous!

In reply to rconlon:

On a similar note I owned a black Eagle Talon in the early 90's. One day I was shopping at a mall and walked back to what I thought was my car, another black Eagle Talon. My key opened the door and I sat in in the car. It was only then I realized it wasn't my car. All of a sudden this big burly guy shows up and says "hey buddy, what are you doing in my car". I explained what had happened and then we noted my car was parked just a couple of rows over. He put his key into my door lock and it opened. We both had a good laugh.

In reply to TR8owner:

A family friend had this happen with his chevy astro. Only difference was that the ignition key worked, too. He drove about a mile down the road before he realized it.

Someone who worked at a dealer back in the 90's said that there were only about 1600 possible combinations of door and ignition keys.

When I was around seven, my parents gave me and my sister the keys to their old '59 Chevy station wagon and said, "Go wait in the car while we finish shopping."

We did, right up until the owner open the rear door and began filling the cargo space with his groceries . . .

Weird, and weirder still for two little kids. The world is supposed to be built on a MUCH more solid base than this.

When we moved to our current location we brought the Dodge Shadow SWMBO drove then passed it down to our 16yo daughter. She had a friend that had a Plymouth Sundance(basically the same car). Each keys would work in the other car.

When I was a platoon sergeant in the army I had to go get one of my troops from the MP station one Saturday morning. Seems he had a bit much and was walking back to the barracks through the commissary parking lot. Saw what looked like his friends car and crawled in the back seat and went to sleep. The car owner called the MPs when he found some stranger sleeping in his back seat. Car owner was retired army and got a laugh from my troops excuse and didn't press charges.

I was driving my 1968 Fiat 850 Sedan in winter. This was in the country in winter time after a big snow fall. As luck would have it, I pulled over to the side of some back road and slipped into the ditch hidden under the fresh soft snow. The car sunk up to its door and had no intention of moving. It was getting dark and a light from a nearby barn drew me to seek help and a telephone. 4 burly lads were playing cards and drinking beer. They offered to help. The all laughed at the diminutive Italian car as each grabbed a corner and lifted it back onto the road. I thanked them while they offered to carry it back tot he city for me.

My wife is a city girl through and through. She didn't learn to drive until after we got married and lived in a small town. Her first car was an early seventies Mercedes 250. Solid, safe, and easy to drive. AT, PS, BP and 4 wheel disks, steady but slow I6. She wanted to learn to drive a stick shift car because most of the cars that I and her brother had owned were stick.

So I bought an old Datsun 620 pickup, I figured it was tough and a bit disposable. I tried for weeks to teach her how to drive it, but she just wasn't getting it.

Her 13 YO niece came over to spend a week during summer vacation. I took her out onto some dirt farm roads, and had her able to start, stop, upshift and downshift in an hour. My wife couldn't take being outdone by a teenager, she got her act together quickly after that.

Gotta tell this one on my Mother. She's nearly 90 years old & probably learned to drive in the 40s. Only drove manual transmissions until the early 60's when Dad got a 62 Rambler station wagon with AT. One day when she left the house in the Rambler, I watched her as she drove up the road. A little ways up the road the brake lights came on for a second or 2, a bit further up the road they came on for another second or 2. When she returned, I asked her why she had hit the brakes as she was driving. She replied that she was mashing the pedal to change the gears. She hadn't been told any better so I gently enlightened her.

When I was a kid you could buy "toy" car keys at the drug store. They looked like real keys and were chrome plated plastic on a ring attached to a little key wallet/pouch. They had an oversized VW on one key head, another was an extra large GM looking key, etc. When my aunt locked her keys in her Squareback I offered her "my car keys" to try. The VW key opened it right up.

I also remember a Sunday in 1981 when my folks were car shopping and were walking the gravel back lot at a Buick dealership. Being a curious 7 year old when I saw something shiny on the ground I picked it up. It was a typical round head GM door key, but it must have been the mythical "master key" because it opened every car on the lot!

The dealership was closed, so my Dad had to go back Monday morning to make sure it got back to the manager.