funny thing happend to me a while ago...

[roninblade]

so i just parked my car in our garage and i was closing then the gate when... i looked up and i saw the car slowly rolling down our driveway. crap, i forgot to engage the hand brake! waaaaaaa!!!!

takbo ako and i proceeded to attempt to stop the car from rolling out into the street. i thought na tatama sa post ng bakod pero when i got there buti nalang hindi (missed the right hand gate post by mere inches). so i kicked the halfway closed gates while still strugglin with the car.

by this stage nasa ramp na ng garage so mas angled na yung floor. nasa isip ko na nun (since medyo nag accelerate pa yung roll ng kotse) sh17, patay na, gastos nanaman.

the car rolled out to the street with me still behind trying to stop it. umabot kami sa bakod ng bahay across the street where i was finally able to get some leverage and stop the car. my final position was both my feet were up against the neighbor's fence while my back was against the trunk.

whew! buti nalang hindi busy yung street namin or baka nakadali pa ko ng ibang sasakyan.

i only find it funny since walang damage yung kotse, our garage post, and the neighbors fence. otherwise i'd be beating myself up for the next couple of weeks.

meron pala ako audience. 2 maids that were sweeping the street and also a couple of neighbors that were talking sa front lawn nila.

still shaking my head as i think about it. hehehehe.
the first time i ever forgot the hand brake.

[compact]

ROFL, just came home from work, naimagine ko itsura mo plus itsura ng dalawang maid... buti ala damage sa car mo, bawas pogi points lang, hahaha.

[flakez]

ahahaha. ang matindi ung sa may isang shop dito sa amin. along national hi-way pa mg ro-roll down dapat ung kotse. buti madami silang humawak. hehehe.

[yebo]

ganyan nangyari sa isang friend ko but he was not so lucky. the vehicle, a pajero, was ok and no scratches whatsoever. but he got pinned between the front bumper and the wall, broken ribs and a broken leg. he would have died since he could not breathe anymore with the weight of the pajero bearing down on him. it was his mom, smaller and lighter than he was, who singlehandidly pushed the pajero and got him free. superwoman!

[roninblade]

i don't think i'd try stopping an SUV by myself. iba talaga nagagawa ng adrenaline lalo na dun sa mom ng friend mo.

[jundogg]

plus pogi points yan sa 2 maids. uuuyyy!!! superman ka sa paningin nila.hehehe

[baludoy]

parang mr bean ah

seriously though, it's a good thing you're ok and no damage was done to your ride. ingat na lang bos sa susunod

[russpogi]

Hahaha! Ok lang yan! May mga araw din tayo! At least there were no damages and you're ok!

Kwento ko lang:
I remembered my officemate from my previous company: she's pretty and drives an Altima. One time pagdating nya sa office, she parked the car infront of the building, got off then headed to the stairs going to our office when the guard called her and said, "Ma'am! Yung tsikot nyo nakaharang sa kalsada!". Then she realized that she forgot to engage the parking brake and her car rolled off the street.

[mayana]

Cool! Adrenalin rush...

[the josh]

Mabuti hindi ka nasaktan

[VtEC]

ha ha ha ha ha, buti parehas kayo ng car na hindi nagasgasan or nalasog

[roninblade]

looking back at it now and i believe the entire thing happened in less than 10 secs. left me with very little time to think.

but, being injured never really entered my mind. dali lang naman sumampa sa trunk kung sigurado na ko wala na talaga ko magagawa para pahintuin yung kotse.

[oldblue]

na wa-poise ka sa mga maid

[ian_rex]

ako naman, naka-limutan ko mag-neutral habang nasa garahe. ang scenario kasi, 4 am ilalabas ko yung kotse since matagal kasi naka-park yun, naka-release lang ang brakes at naka 1st gear lang. binukas ko yung pinto para pa-start na, pag-start, muntik na akong maiwanan- buti di nakatutok yung pick up namin kungdi- yari din yun.

[empy]

ganyan nangyari sa isang friend ko but he was not so lucky. the vehicle, a pajero, was ok and no scratches whatsoever. but he got pinned between the front bumper and the wall, broken ribs and a broken leg. he would have died since he could not breathe anymore with the weight of the pajero bearing down on him. it was his mom, smaller and lighter than he was, who singlehandidly pushed the pajero and got him free. superwoman!

i was about to say something to this effect....if you had lost your footing baka :rip: ka na ngayon. careful out there...

[the_wildthing]

Just out of curiosity why did you not just go back into the car and hit the brakes?

[MACpod]

ang bilis ng mga pangyayari. whew!

may guardian angel ka!

[afrasay]

How heavy is your car? how heavy are you? do the math. you're lucky you didn't sustain any injury trying to stop a car probably 10 times more heavier than you.

[roninblade]

Just out of curiosity why did you not just go back into the car and hit the brakes?

sabi ko nga less than 10 secs nangyari. and malapit na sa ramp yung car nung nakita ko. that part of the garage is little bit tight, if i'd attempted to get in it's either may tama door and gate namin tapos di pa din ako nakapasok or hintaying ko ma-clear nung door yung gates. pero the car would've been in the street then and the momentum would've made it harder for me to get in. since di na slow down yung car 2-3 seconds lang babangga na sa bakod across the street (our street is really not that wide). that's not much time for me to get in the car (while it's moving) and engage any of the brakes.

How heavy is your car? how heavy are you? do the math. you're lucky you didn't sustain any injury trying to stop a car probably 10 times more heavier than you.

i know, thinking about it again makes me see how things could've gone wrong. it just happened so fast all i could do was act. wasn't even able to call out to my brother who was just inside the door of our house that time.


actually, my goal really was not to stop the car in the driveway but out on the street. i just tried to slow it down to make it more manageable on an even surface (on the road). plan worked. it really wasn't that hard to stop near the end.

i found the incident funnier yesterday; probably because of the adrenaline rush. i'm beating myself up more now.


lesson learned. never forget the hand brakes!

[ogpro]

wow...good one bro, glad your car ended up scratch/dent free. Same thing happened to me a few years ago. I parked in front of Yoshinoya in Manhattan Beach, their parking was a bit sloped. After I got my order and stepped out, heavens I thought my car had been stolen, it wasn't there! I found it after refocusing my eyes, it was about 30 meters away, parked in another spot, in between 2 cars.

You want to know what's even crazier? My car had to make a hard right steer to end up in that spot that was perpendicular to where I was.

To this day I still have no idea how that happened.