Customer's car door got ripped off

[Monica]

Now, this didn't happen to me, but my friend who works at a gas station told me this one.

My friend was on the intercom on one of the pumps because another customer (not the one that I am talking about) had a problem, and my friend was talking her through it. She gets done, and is about to turn off the intercom, and as you know you can hear background noise on it.

She heard what sounded like a car peeling out of the parking lot, so she looked outside, in case he would of hit somebody. She saw the car, who had paid by credit card, sitting there with the car door off. Turns out that the sound she heard was the door getting ripped off. She called the manager and the manager goes out to talk with them.

When she comes back in, she said that once the person was done pumping, they got back in their car, and for some reason didn't close the door before the car started moving, and they hit one of the cement poles that stick up from the ground. She said it was quite a sight seeing them drive away with no door.

What are some things that customers done that made you go ?

[Finduilas]

I actually did that exact thing when I was about three. I was sitting in the driver's seat while my mother was vacuuming the car. The keys were in the ignition (but not turned on), which allowed my three-year-old self to put the car into reverse... it rolled backwards just far enough to really screw up the door.

[Shangri-laschild]

I've done that to a car back when I first got my license. I thought the curb was lower than it was and I was backing up faster than I should have.

[Imprl59]

I've done it too, though not as bad as that customer.

I was running late for a very important appointment and had to stop and get gas. I jumped out of the truck and apparently didn't put it all the way in park. I also left the door open..... (stupid stupid and stupid)

Truck pops out of park while I am pumping gas and the door catches on the concrete pole and goes way past its stop point. Tore up the door, hinges, hinge post and the fender. Took two of us to get the door closed so I could go on to my appointment.

Sad sad day in big dummy land.

Steve

[Javarod]

And it feels worse when it isn't your fault, but is. Guy I worked with in NJ was a hunter. He'd parked his Trooper on a hill to unload his boat, and it slid down the hill, past a tree... and there went the door, bent completely backwards to the point where it dented his front fender.

[protege]

My grandmother did that once. Shortly after Grandpa died, she was leaving for town, and had the door open for some reason. Apparently, she'd start the car with the door open. Don't know why she did that...

Alongside the car, was a row of empty cabinets. We'd cleaned all the tools and parts out of them. Anyway, I don't remember what happened, but the car (a full-size Delta 88) shot backwards with the door open...taking out the row of cabinets At least she got it stopped before the door hit the brick wall...but there was no damage to the car, other than the door being a bitch to close!

[BarbieGirl]

My Sister-in-law did that, she didn't wait for her sister to close the door before backing up and bending to all heck on a mail box post. Then she tried to get her sister to pay for it!

[powerboy]

I backed into those posts once, but not hit them with the door. I was a dummy that night. What made it worse was that I done that in front of a hot lady.

[LifeCarnie]

One of my friends actually did that to a rented van while we were on vacation.

He had pulled too far forward to pump the gas and so he opened the door all the way and leaned out to watch where he was backing up. The only problem is that he caught the door on the cement pole, because he wasn't paying attention to the door, and bent the shiat out of the door hinges.

We had to run a rope across the inside of the van and tie it off in order to hold the door shut. My friends credit card had accident insurance on it, so they covered the damage.

[Gothicsmurf]

I never ripped a door off nor watched it, but I did do a really stupid thing.

When I lived in MN I was going to college and working full time.

This was during the middle of winter too, and if none of you have ever been, Minnesota has some NASTY cold winters!

One day after morning class, I opened my passenger door, threw my back pack in and went to the drivers side. Class ran late and I was already late for work.

Got in the drivers side turned on the car, slammed the door, passenger door opened. Got out, walked around the car, closed the passenger door. Got in the drivers side, slammed the door, passenger door opened. *second verse same as the first*

After a few minutes I was getting so in the heat of the moment, I opened the drivers door, hit the auto lock button, slammed the drivers door, walked to the passenger door, slammed it, then tried to pull it open.

FINALLY satisfied that the door was closed for good, I went to the drivers door and tried to open it.

Then it dawns on me auto lock = ALL doors lock. GRRRR! So now I'm standing outside in the middle of a Minnesota winter, in a skirt, high heels and below zero weather with a massive windchill. Thankfully, my cell phone was in my jacket pocket. Tow truck arrives a good 30-45 minutes later.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks later. I'm leaving college and I see the same tow truck driver out helping another girl. I pass at a distance where I can hear them and he says, "Don't worry about it. It happens all the time. Not too long ago I was out here and the girl locked her keys in the car with it running! So don't feel bad!"

[morgana]

Went to back the station wagon out of the garage. With the back hatch up.

Small garage; low ceiling.

*sigh*

Lots of glass on the driveway.

Expensive, too.

[Andara Bledin]

My ex has a Chrysler LeBaron convertible. It has all the bells and whistles; power everything.

Well, one day we're cruising and he decides he wants the top down because it's a beautiful day. So we unlatch the front, and he hits the lever and the top starts moving back. About halfway through, there's this sickening sort of cracking sound right before a more impressive breaking glass sound.

Turns out he'd forgotten to get his pool cue, in it's case, out of the back beforehand, and it was positioned to put a very nice hole right through the back window.

^-.-^

[LifeCarnie]

That reminded of something stupid I did when I was in High School.

I had a friend who had a Reinault Le Car convertible.

We were riding down a four lane highway one day when I noticed this button above window frame, sooooo.....I pushed it.

.......and the roof opened. Straight up, like a giant sail. We didn't crash, but the force of the wind, did lift the entire car off the ground and shifted us across three lines.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

When she comes back in, she said that once the person was done pumping, they got back in their car, and for some reason didn't close the door before the car started moving, and they hit one of the cement poles that stick up from the ground. She said it was quite a sight seeing them drive away with no door.

During my second year at community college, my biology class took a field trip to the local recycling center.

We were in the big, smelly room where all the recyclables got sorted when a guy in a florist van started backing up to an open overhead door to drop some stuff off.

He hit the gas pedal kinda quick and BANG! Right into the one of the poles in front of the door.

After that he unloaded his stuff and tried to act like nothing happened, but people were snickering at him and making comments amongst themselves.

[wolfie]

After a few minutes I was getting so in the heat of the moment, I opened the drivers door, hit the auto lock button, slammed the drivers door, walked to the passenger door, slammed it, then tried to pull it open.

FINALLY satisfied that the door was closed for good, I went to the drivers door and tried to open it.

Then it dawns on me auto lock = ALL doors lock. GRRRR!

I'm in the habit of locking my car door every time I get out, so when I have to get out with the key in the ignition (e.g. when jump-starting someone's car), I roll down the window before getting out. That way, even if "auto-pilot" makes me lock the door, I'm not locked out.