Putting the car in neutral to sneak out…
Posted by CurlyCupcake1231@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 150 comments
My daughter’s BF has a car he added a tune to, and it’s so loud when he leaves at night that my neighbors started to complain. I had to ask him if there anything he could do, like put the car in neutral and roll it down our hill before he starts it. Man, you would’ve thought I had 3 eyes the way he looked at me! He had no idea why I suggested that or even that it was a thing!! I was like wait, you’ve never had to do that to sneak out?! 😂
iloveairportsushi@reddit
Never had a curfew in HS so I didn’t have to sneak. By the time I was 15 I was sleeping at my boyfriends house 6 nights a week
peppermentpattie@reddit
Boy I didn't have a boyfriend in HS.
iloveairportsushi@reddit
I had one long term. It wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
peppermentpattie@reddit
Boys thought I had cooties in school because I was quiet shy and awkward.
iloveairportsushi@reddit
Aww!! I had that also when I was younger. The only reason my HS boyfriend liked me was he was older and from a different school. He was also brothers of my BFF boyfriend. It was a complete fluke how we met.
Boys at my school wouldn’t even look at me except to make leering comments about my chest.
peppermentpattie@reddit
At that time I was flat cheated flat as a board and was made fun of for being skinny.
iloveairportsushi@reddit
I’m so sorry!! I was opposite, very fluffy/chubby. I would have given anything to be thin!!!
Starbuck522@reddit
Wouldn't the neighbors still hear it?
Sounds like a jerk. (This kid who wants that attention and doesn't care about bothering other people)
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
Exactly-- assholes with intentionally extra loud cars/trucks? Not the sort I'd want my kid to date anyway. Keep it quiet by not coming over would be my solution.
Luckily my kids are adults and can avoid performative auto enthusiasts on their own.
xczechr@reddit
The house I grew up in was on a hill, and a neighbor had to do this sometimes to start his Volkswagen Beetle. Good times.
Fancy_Use_6813@reddit
Pop that clutch!! Luv my VW bug!
PollutionZero@reddit
LMAO, we all did this! Hehe.
Every Friday, like clockwork. Parents in bed, 11pm, sneak out the window from my bedroom, roll the Dodge Omni down the driveway, let it coast while turning, keep coasting backwards until I'm in front of the next door neighbor. Start her up and go see the Rocky Horror Picture Show with my buddies.
EVERY Friday for like 3 years. Getting home was harder.
Turn the corner at 4am, turn off the headlights, get close to the house, kill the engine, coast up the driveway WAY too fast, brake, and oh so silently get out and sneak around the corner to my bedroom window.
Saturdays were reserved for USA's Up All Night.
badhoopty@reddit
i did the exact same thing, and also in an omni!
PollutionZero@reddit
Miss that car a bit. My first hatchback. I'm a hot hatch fan now. Love those things.
Dragginwaggin351@reddit
I had the same routine. Those steep driveways!
banksy_h8r@reddit
My condolences.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
Why is that? I added a tune to my wife's automobile.
Genny415@reddit
Would someone please ELI5 what adding a tune to your car is?
I'm familiar with getting a "tune-up" or "tuning" and searching turns up results for those.
It seems like what you're referring to is something different? That I have inferred will somehow make the car louder?
DubbulG@reddit
I did that all the time, 5 speed manual, put it in neutral, push it out of the driveway and coast downhill for a quarter mile before starting. The best part was that I could return home from the opposite direction, shut the car off a block away and coast into the driveway completely silent.
135BkRdBl@reddit
Mine was a 4 speed manual '83 Nissan/Datsun. It was the car I learned how to pop start with the clutch.
DubbulG@reddit
Yup, same. Starter solenoid went out less than a year after I bought it and spend a couple months parking on hills and push starting it.
DrL8X@reddit
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral...
C-romero80@reddit
Stock car flaming with the loser in the cruise control.
Endless_Forever_484@reddit
Baby's in Reno with the Vitamin D
Weekley13@reddit
Got a coupla couches, sleep on the loveseat
Endless_Forever_484@reddit
Someone came saying I'm insane to complain...
iloveairportsushi@reddit
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
chiaratara@reddit
Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat
arethusabean@reddit
Not to sneak out but ... HS parking lot was a sort of s-shape, on a slight incline. Had friend who was like a race car driver-very skilled. Park at top of lot, open the doors, put it in neutral. Give it a (gentle) push, then stand on door frame. She managed to steer the car with one arm while hanging off the side. We yelled wheeeee! And called this surfing.
MightyAl75@reddit
Tell him to park down the street or change the tune. If the tune changed how loud it is then it isn’t for performance it’s just to make noise. You can turn off the pops and crackles.
Starbuck522@reddit
But that still bothers the people who live down the street.
He just can't come to the house with that crap.
KurtStation68@reddit
I think I only tried this with a column and stick shift. To my teen validation, rolling the car in neutral and putting it into gear worked. Except for when we crashed on the curb and almost over the hill as the road was steeper and a little more curving than expected.
Jennyreviews1@reddit
51F HAHAHAHA!! Being female no boy would ever dare sneak into my house…. My dad was armed. lol but I spent the night at plenty of my best friend’s house. Our boyfriends would sometimes ask us to meet them down the street so we could avoid the whole thing altogether! Senior year was MUCH BETTER as we were 18 then and usually partied till wee hours in the morning on weekends and spent the nights at the beach. I grew up on the Big Island of Hawai’i and when I look back at it… wow… life was so much simpler and we were so lucky!
Ray_The_Engineer@reddit
Also to return; I had it down to an art form to get up speed down our neighborhood road, put it in neutral, kill the engine and coast the rest of the way to my parents' house and driveway, silently.
coopnjaxdad@reddit
And I bet they knew every single time. I thought I was slick for decades. Mom was like, nah I was just glad you decided to come home.
I am being half facetious here but lots of parents knew shit like this and just didn’t care.
Ray_The_Engineer@reddit
It's possible they were aware here and there, but they weren't the type to keep it a big secret. My father was pretty strict with his curfews.
stuntin102@reddit
i did the ol’ turn the engine off and neutral roll into the driveway when coming home at 4am.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
I was pretty lucky I didn't have a curfew. Plus I had good mufflers on the car. If I wanted to be routie I could pull the cut off plates off to have some fun and piss people off.
RunDre22@reddit
I knew someone who used to do this as a teen. One night his dad waited up for him to return. He sat on the porch in the dark. Waited for them to sneak up so carefully and quietly. Then scared the shit out of him.
PollutionZero@reddit
The one time I got caught red-handed, my dad called his buddy to drive him to the theater showing Rocky (how they knew that's where I was, I'll never know).
He took the car and parked it in the church lot behind our house. When I got out of the movie I fucking PANICKED!
Got a ride from a friend, right there on the front door was my bedroom poster from Middle School, Garfield I think. It said, "what my parents don't know won't hurt me."
I was fucking pissed at the snark and trick they pulled. I thought they were such shitty parents for that.
I'm in my 50s now. I now see it as one of the only generally baller moves my old man ever pulled on me.
To the hole story, I kept my woods porn in a plastic bag under the sump pump lid in my bedroom (tri-level house, I had a bedroom in the "basement.") When it had to get replaced, dad found it, checked it over while I was standing RIGHT THERE and said, "nice tits..." then put it back when he was done.
(He was a piece of shit most of the time, mom was no better, but those two times were fucking awesome in retrospect. Mad Respect. Kinda wish they were still alive so I could let em know that that was funny as hell now.)
TypeNo2194@reddit
This reminds me of a coworker I had a few years ago, but the opposite. She said her husband would do this when the kids went to bed. He’d kill the engine and roll to the bottom of the hill to sneak out to go get some wings and ice cream, sneak back in by parking down the street. They’d lock their bedroom door so they could enjoy wings and a movie in peace. She had two boys that ate them out of house and home and wings were expensive.
lisavfr@reddit
Used to sneak my father’s convertible out at night. Super challenging as my parent’s bedroom overlooked the driveway. You had to no only push the car out but also crank the wheel to point the car downhill once it was on the street and there was a fire hydrant right next to the driveway on the downhill side! Very little room for error and of course, no power steering.
Years later my older sister and I compared notes on this and we both remembered the challenge of pushing the car and cranking the wheel to make the escape in the night all while avoiding that fire hydrant.
DominicPalladino@reddit
Did you have to put it on blocks and run it in reverse to reset the odometer?
lisavfr@reddit
Nah, dad never really took note of that. But, it was always amusing to ask if I could drive it and my father replying something to the effect of “Haven’t driven it in a while so not sure if it will start”
Meanwhile, both my sister and had both driven it the week before!
73 Kharman Ghia. Red with a white top. Manual, of course.
Jas62021@reddit
Hell I had to do this as a freaking grown adult so I wouldn’t wake my sister.
Relevant_Outside_860@reddit
I'd put it in neutral to sneak back in. Lived at the end of a cul-de-sac, I would barrel down the street at high speed, when I got close I would turn the key off and then coast the rest of the way into the driveway with no engine running. Thanks for the memories! Lol.
ITSMYSFWACCOUNT@reddit
Every time I read someone doing this it reminds me of "that scene" Robin Williams had in "The World According to Garp".
Cute-Imagination3183@reddit
Did we hang out in high school?
FoleyV@reddit
This timing is absolutely perfect! Yesterday my brother went by the old house we grew up in and sent the family group text a picture. I replied, aw the hill I used to push my car down into the street before starting it up when sneaking out!
LadyNorbert@reddit
He added... a tune? Does that mean something other than a song? I don't speak car so I'm kind of confused here.
JitteryTurtle@reddit
It’s when you reprogram the car’s computer (electronic control module) for (usually) high performance/racing. This usually accompanies other modifications, such as a louder exhaust and suspension changes for better handling.
BrilliantAd4857@reddit
Backfireing
tvieno@reddit
They tuned the engine so it would be unnecessarily noisy.
CryptographerLost760@reddit
Yeah, those kind of people drive me nuts. My house is only about 20 feet from the road, and I hear these cars every single day. It's annoying as all get out. It's quiet and all of a sudden you hear the loud"waaawwwww" of the engines.
activelyresting@reddit
My wife did this to their BRZ and I just do not get it. They talk about performance and torque and all I hear is you just wanted it to be loud so people will look at how cool your car is 🙄
Also put in a supercharger and lowered suspension. Because you want to feel like you're on safari when you creep over the speed bumps at the supermarket 😂
(It's possible menopause is making me cranky)
The_Mammoth_Hunter@reddit
Modified the engine settings so it has more power, higher rev limit, etc., standard car-nerd stuff in the 'Hey, everyone, look at me! Look how cool I am!' vein.
ntyperteasy@reddit
“Improve” the car by over writing the factory engine programming. With a lot of effort can generate more power at the expense of fuel economy or longevity. Mostly just lightens the wallet of the victim.
Often combined with a “coffee can exhaust” with the same caveats as above except definitely makes car louder at the expense of performance. Wallet lightening effect is the same.
Astronaut6735@reddit
In high school my curfew was 10pm on school nights, and midnight on weekends. If I was going to be late I just had to call to let them know. They never cared where I went.
BrilliantAd4857@reddit
My parents were smart/lazy. I never had a curfew, but all my friends did. By 10:15 I was home because there was nothing to do, everyone else was home.
135BkRdBl@reddit
Used to do it to sneak in after curfew. Would come around the curve at the top of the street like bat out of Hell, kill the headlights, put it into neutral, turn the key one click to keep the steering and then coast into my parents driveway in the dark. Wait a minute to make sure nobody was at the window. Gently close the car door without a sound. Find the key to the side door. Close that and the screen door without a sound. Step right of the squeaky floorboard in the hall by the bathroom on my way to my room. Change in the dark. Lay in for a few minutes then hit the fridge for cold leftovers. If Mom got up, always answered with couldn't sleep. Back to bed reliving the nights adventures and that one girl from the pool hall.
God I miss those days...
Sp00nD00d@reddit
...until the one night I silently rolled around the corner of the driveway and every light was on in the house.
"Whelp, we're fucked"
135BkRdBl@reddit
Actually there was a night when I did all that, made it all the way to the squeaky board in the hall when I heard my Dad say from the dark "Where the Hell have you been?". Lights came on. Demands were made. Accusations too. I just remember thinking it was so worth it though. The fun we had was always worth that risk.
Cobra-Lalalalalalala@reddit
...stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control
135BkRdBl@reddit
Yeah, I heard it too as I was writing it. 🤣
Waschaos@reddit
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me....Love Beck
denzien@reddit
I didn't have a car in HS. My bicycle was plenty quiet, though.
napalm_beach@reddit
No playing cards in the spokes?
denzien@reddit
Not in high school
Possible-Armadillo68@reddit
I used to do this way too often, it’s how I learnt to drive! Wait for mother to go to bed, give it an hour then climb over the house (literally climb up one of our backyard walls, in to the roof, over to the front and down the front wall), push my mothers company car down the road, then head off for a bit.
Got caught doing this once, by my grand father, was back at at the night he left for home!
Waschaos@reddit
I ended up with an exterior door to just walk out after I cut my leg up pretty bad going out a high window. I did almost run myself over pushing my 2 door car away from the house before I started it though. Finally decided no one would hear it anyway and just cranked it.
Slight-Selection4298@reddit
Used to return my moms 78 Caddy DeVille in neutral, same as how I left... 1 day I came in too hot, with no power steering or power brakes .... Ended up half in the grass. Had to roll back out in the road and PUSH it up the driveway.
We got caught soon as we pushed it all the way up :( Had the key for years, taking it out, refilling the gas etc
IfAMomFallsInAForest@reddit
Mom probably watched and waited while you pushed it back up the driveway.
Slight-Selection4298@reddit
We're certain she did lol My friend had a broken collar bone at the time too, so I had to actually get it pointed the right way, and RUN to the back and help him, because be pushing from the door / wheel wasn't doing ANYTHING to that boat.
Wait - MOM? IS THAT YOU?
JasonMaggini@reddit
No curfew, and raised by grandparents that usually were asleep super early, but we were out in the middle of friggin' nowhere, so there wasn't really anywhere to go.
RussellAlden@reddit
How do you think i started my car with a bad starter?
jashf8694@reddit
55 here and just bought my first keyless ignition vehicle. Went to the car wash and had to ask the teen employee how to put it in neutral to ride through the wash. Felt dumb but bet he couldn’t drive a stick!
CryptographerLost760@reddit
Does anyone know how to drive a stick anymore? I don't because all of our cars were automatic.
No_Economics8397@reddit
I do..
Plastic-Sentence9429@reddit
We lived on a hill on a loop. I could coast out and clutch start, and turn it off and cost in from the other direction.
Jumbly_Girl@reddit
Same for me, practiced when coming home from school. Had it down to a science for nights.
caffeinatedonline@reddit
I was sitting out on my patio the other night getting ready to call it a night, wife was already in bed. I ordered a Waymo, snuck out the side gate, and went to the corner dive for one more beer and a couple of games of pinball. Got home, snuck back in the same way. She's none the wiser. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but your post made me think of it
Pineapple_JoJo@reddit
Might be easier to tell him to park away from the house?
rogun64@reddit
Did that plenty, but I wasn't always trying to sneak out.
im_dead_sirius@reddit
Coming home at 6am with no muffler.
Dillenger69@reddit
I never had to sneak out, and my curfew was "call if you are going to be out past 2am"
Ok_Transition7785@reddit
Wow! You had unusual parents!
Dillenger69@reddit
They were, and still are, extremely progressive. I got it from them
Ok_Transition7785@reddit
Jealous, you got the hippie parents everybody wanted!
Dillenger69@reddit
Oddly enough, they weren't/aren't hippies. My dad only listens to classical music. They just both grew up with awful parents and wanted to break the cycle. I was also a very easy kid to parent
BoltActionRifleman@reddit
My parents had a good upbringing, but neither of them had strict parents and I think they just passed that along to us growing up. I had to call if I was going to spend the night somewhere. Not going out during blizzards was the only driving restriction. I passed this down to my kids as well and they all turned out fine. In my opinion, it’s better to let kids grow up not feeling like they’re constantly on probation when they’ve done nothing wrong.
Ok_Transition7785@reddit
Cool cool! I was expecting Age of Aquarius type parents like from that 80s movie. Cant Buy Me Love?
CryptographerLost760@reddit
A had a cousin that didn't sneak out, but she certainly tried pushing her curfew. As long as she was in the yard sitting in her car by 11:00, she thought they was fine. My uncle thought differently. He told her 11:00 meant inside the house, and she had better not be hanging out in the yard past her curfew or he was taking her Mustang away. Better believe she was in that house by curfew every night.
CurlyCupcake1231@reddit (OP)
Dang! Mine was 11 until senior year and I got to stay out until midnight. And my dad would blow up this damn pager he made me take with me from 11:45 until I got home 🤦♀️
generic_user_27@reddit
I love my girlfriend...Indefinitely.
flower_songs@reddit
I used to watch my brother steal my parents car for the night this way. It boggles my mind they never found out.
Starbreiz@reddit
We have a maintenance guy with an insanely loud souped up car. He gets here at 8am and it wakes me up every time. But every time I think about complaining to management, I feel stupidly old. I drive a v8 Mustang and his car is like 8x as loud.
KRYSTALKAERLIGHED@reddit
That’s a lot of times louder
Starbreiz@reddit
😂 I had to pick a multiplier, but I can't say I've measured it. I was just feeling old and relating to OPs post
Kalena426@reddit
🤣
WBRGGRL@reddit
I remember my boyfriend doing that when he stayed past my curfew. lol.
3mptyspaces@reddit
I do this with my EV to avoid bothering neighbors with the backup ding.
the__post__merc@reddit
I never had to do it to sneak out, but I did have to roll start cars because the battery was dead, the starter was bad or any number of other issues.
Once (in my 30’s) I had left my lights on while at work and the battery died. A younger millennial coworker asked what I was going to do. I roll started it and he was completely flabbergasted.
DependentNewspaper62@reddit
Your daughter chose a guy with an obnoxious exhaust? This not a good sign in her overall decision making & future prosperity…I’m sure he’s hot though
Original_Rent7677@reddit
I'm sure the neighbours hate the guy and can't wait until they break up.
CryptographerLost760@reddit
I know that's right. I used to live across from a family with 2 teenage sons that had a loud car. Their house was directly across from my bedroom. Used to wake me up every Friday and Saturday night exactly at 1AM when they came home. They seemed to be good kids, but that car.
lsuillini@reddit
Shut up Dad, he's the lead singer of an awesome band and he has an earring. Ugh!!!
SunriseSwede@reddit
Nick from "Family Ties"????
CryptographerLost760@reddit
Nick wasn't too bright, but he was loveable, sweet, and a very talented artist. Also great with kids.
powderpoff6@reddit
😍
root_fifth_octave@reddit
Yeah, what could be done here? Would listening to ‘Fast Car’ by Tracy Chapman be helpful in this situation?
Icy_Quiet_4336@reddit
Used to jump 2 stories down into bushes, and neutral the car down the steep driveway about 50 yards.
Got away from me one time and went over a bank! Luckily it kept going into a field...no noticeable damage.
Loved that Chevette!
maybelying@reddit
Chevettes we amazing. I mean, they were, by any objective standard, bad cars. But everyone I knew that had one had various issues like rusted out floors, non functional heaters, janky suspensions, wonky transmissions and whatnot, yet I always knew that when I jumped into one to head somewhere, it always got there, whether a party a few blocks away or a cottage two hours away. They were troopers..
Busy_Quiet4435@reddit
My HS boyfriend ( now husband) did this with his VW Rabbit when he snuck out to see me in the middle of the night. I would tie a string around a toe and threaded it out my bedroom window ( weighted with a penny) so he could wake me up without waking up my parents. Ahhhh mems.
minimal_spaces@reddit
This is low-key quite genius.
Busy_Quiet4435@reddit
All my idea 💡I miss 1989, sometimes.
Clembert-Hamlamp@reddit
Until a hobo floating by on a waft of pie smell snatches it and an accidental toe
largos7289@reddit
Pfft kids today... I use to hear stories about my cousins sneaking out of the house to go hang with boys afterhours.. I was so paranoid. They must have been the last ones to do it because mine... LOL they won't go outside at night unless someone watches them. They are 22-21-18.
CryptographerLost760@reddit
My nephew is 12 and wants his 7 year old sister to go outside with him at night. We're all like "she's 7, what is she going to do?"
powderpoff6@reddit
This is valid!
Relevant_Outside_860@reddit
I'd put it in neutral to sneak back in. Lived at the end of a cul-de-sac, I would barrel down the street at high speed, turn the key off and roll right into the driveway with no engine running. Thanks for the memories! Lol.
CryptographerLost760@reddit
I know how you're neighbors feel. I've had multiple different neighbors over the years at a house across the street. The second family to live there was a single father with two teenage sons. The home sits directly across from my bedroom, and these teens had a very loud car. Apparently their curfew was 1:00 AM on the weekends, because every Friday and Saturday night at 1:00 AM, they would wake me up, and I'm a very hard sleeper. I didn't want to be a terrible neighbor, but I was to the point of going over to ask if they could drive in more quietly late at night. The boys moved out before I did anything, and the father moved a couple of years later.
Never thought about putting the car in neutral to roll down the hill, but I know about putting it in neutral if you have to push it. My sister was with my male cousin when they were teenagers. She couldn't drive a stick. The car broke down, and he had my sister out pushing while he steered.
activelyresting@reddit
My parents kicked me out at 16, so I never really needed to sneak out after I had a car 😂
And with my own kid, I gave her a car as a graduation gift (just a cheap old shitbox) but she couldn't really afford petrol to go anywhere in it without asking me to spot her some cash, so again, no sneaking. It is a manual car though - I made her do her licence test in a manual and I wouldn't let her drive until she'd demonstrated how to change a tyre and check the oil and fluids.
powderpoff6@reddit
I (50) recently told my mom (82) how often I’d sneak out using this exact method. She was SHOCKED.
EyelanderSam@reddit
Man, I used to put a set of clothes in our washer, which was outside of the house.
When nightfall came I would pretend that I was going to play basketball with my friends.
On the way out I would grab my nice clothes and change at my friends house and we'd hit the parties.
Never got caught
Good times
TerpBE@reddit
Is he driving an ice cream truck?
SlaveToShopping@reddit
I could never sneak out with my car. Instead I’d sneak out and have friends pick me up a block away.
No-Clue4432@reddit
My bedroom windows being on the porch were not a good thing. All kinds of fun, sneaking people in and out, but not good
Build68@reddit
There’s a decent argument that we were kind of an extremist generation.
Coggonite@reddit
I accept that.
ER_Support_Plant17@reddit
I went over the garage roof and into my boyfriend’s bedroom.
The_Mammoth_Hunter@reddit
Dang, you go girl/guy/whatever. Good for you.
'Fuck that. Gonna ninja my ass over this shit for some makeout time mothafucka!'
swbradshaw@reddit
Did this in high school. Flush the toilet (we had loud plumbing) so I could open the garage door without it being heard in the house Put the car in neutral and push it out of the garage with my left foot and then down our long winding driveway in the dark.
Never got caught but one time coming home at 4am, my step father was reading a newspaper in the kitchen. I was so damn tired but had to wait at the bottom of the driveway for him to go back to bed.
EnjoyingTheRide-0606@reddit
My ex took his dad’s car out regularly before he had a license. His dad had a lengthy commute, for sure. But the amount of gas he was going thru made him think the engine was failing. Until my ex had an incident involving a skunk being thrown into the grill while enjoying the backroads of town!!
whtutlknboutwillis@reddit
Had a straight piped dodge power wagon that I parked across the road, always facing downhill. Had to turn it off at the top of the hill and coast down the street when I got home too.
munq8675309@reddit
I had a beat up 80 something Celica. Stick shift and the mechanism that locked the steering wheel when the engine was off was broken. I could kill the engine, coast in neutral, as silent as a mouse in sneakers.
litefytr@reddit
Would jump out of my 2nd floor window and push the family minivan outta the driveway. Then when I came home. If walk through the front door and tell my dad I was outside taking a smoke
BmanGorilla@reddit
Slam some bananas in the tail pipes and blame angry neighbors.
Or tell him that that this is a good time to rethink his life’s priorities. :)
yountvillwjs@reddit
bananas cause uncontrollable spin outs, everyone knows this
BmanGorilla@reddit
O’Doyle rules!
deadzol@reddit
Look man I aint fallin for no banana in my tailpipe
Grtpumk369@reddit
If I could award you, I would!
C-romero80@reddit
Never had to. Too goody goody earlier on so when I got to where I wanted to go out, my parents just let me.
MoonageDayscream@reddit
Reminds me of.that scene in The World According To Garp.
asscheese2000@reddit
Ug. I winced.
Grtpumk369@reddit
Oh no…..
thedarkforest_theory@reddit
I did this all the time. Neutral and pop the e brake to leave, shut the car off and coast to a stop to return.
wheresbill@reddit
I had a medium loud motorcycle and rolled it down the street before starting it in the morning. Nobody had to ask. I think some people are not conscientious
NeutralNobrake@reddit
Had to do that to sneak back in
Rural area, get going fast enough, kill the engine and coast into the driveway. Not easy in a lifted truck with no power steering
CurlyCupcake1231@reddit (OP)
Oh for sure I had to do it to get back in as well. And pray my parents didn’t lock me out of the house…again (yes it happened to “teach me a lesson”
MinnNiceEnough@reddit
I had a manual transmission, shitbox of a car in high school. For a while, the roll-start is the only way it’d start 😂