Most of my life I've been able to handle the simple logic that is using a garage, laughing at folks who do otherwise. Last two years that hasn't been the case, so I have a couple stories to share, luckily none involving the NSX.
Please do share YOUR stories - where YOU (not wife/sibling/friend/stranger, are the bonehead). This is about sharing, AA-style - I assume they talk about their problems, not those of others.
My first two stories are kind of boring, but I find the third pretty entertaining in retrospect.
Oops #1:
I hopped in my Accord, put it in reverse, proceeded to start backing out. At that moment I remembered the first rule of using a garage, "The door should be open before you enter/exit." Luckily I remembered this rule just before impact, so with reaction time I hit the brakes soon enough where the door was barely dented, and only on the inside.
Oops #2:
After finishing several trips to move groceries from MDX to kitchen, I walked back to the garage and hit the button to close the garage door. The next time I operated the garage door (opened it maybe an hour later) and walked around the back of the MDX I was surprised to see the back hatch open. Sure enough, I had managed to close (and later open) the rear hatch with the simple push of a button. Who needs a power-lift gate when you have an automatic garage door opener?
Oops #3:
I'm about to leave the house the other day and my wife comes out to chat a bit before I go. I roll down the window, we chat, I roll it back up and proceed to back out. Problem is I failed to notice that the tip of the emergency release cord from the garage had fallen inside the area of the window...so when I rolled up the window I pinched it in. I've done this several times closing the door on the cord, which is pretty annoying the cord makes a weird sound (and scuffs up the door's rubber weather seal) as it pops loose. Never had this problem with cars as they're not as tall as the MDX.
Apparently the window has a better grip on the cord than a car door (knot on the end of the rope probably helps). As I backed up the cord was pulled hard enough to release the door and, given my direction of travel, pulled in the correct direction to close the door. Now picture that...the garage door and MDX are now physically linked in a distinctly incompatible way. The farther back the MDX moves, the more the door closes...and as they meet, the opposing forces increase.
The top of the MDX now has a distinct area of fine scratches (from dirt on bottom of rubber seal on bottom of garage door being pushed with quite a bit of force against the roof) and is missing an antenna. The cord actually broke/snapped/failed from the force of everything, so I avoided dents in the roof, ripping the entire antenna assembly off, or having something else in the equation fail (I'm glad the cord was the weak link). Luckily Acura/Honda engineers these days for stuff like this, so I think this is only going to cost me about $20 (#9 in the diagram below)...plus a little bit of polishing compound.
Time for your stories.
Please do share YOUR stories - where YOU (not wife/sibling/friend/stranger, are the bonehead). This is about sharing, AA-style - I assume they talk about their problems, not those of others.
My first two stories are kind of boring, but I find the third pretty entertaining in retrospect.
Oops #1:
I hopped in my Accord, put it in reverse, proceeded to start backing out. At that moment I remembered the first rule of using a garage, "The door should be open before you enter/exit." Luckily I remembered this rule just before impact, so with reaction time I hit the brakes soon enough where the door was barely dented, and only on the inside.
Oops #2:
After finishing several trips to move groceries from MDX to kitchen, I walked back to the garage and hit the button to close the garage door. The next time I operated the garage door (opened it maybe an hour later) and walked around the back of the MDX I was surprised to see the back hatch open. Sure enough, I had managed to close (and later open) the rear hatch with the simple push of a button. Who needs a power-lift gate when you have an automatic garage door opener?
Oops #3:
I'm about to leave the house the other day and my wife comes out to chat a bit before I go. I roll down the window, we chat, I roll it back up and proceed to back out. Problem is I failed to notice that the tip of the emergency release cord from the garage had fallen inside the area of the window...so when I rolled up the window I pinched it in. I've done this several times closing the door on the cord, which is pretty annoying the cord makes a weird sound (and scuffs up the door's rubber weather seal) as it pops loose. Never had this problem with cars as they're not as tall as the MDX.
Apparently the window has a better grip on the cord than a car door (knot on the end of the rope probably helps). As I backed up the cord was pulled hard enough to release the door and, given my direction of travel, pulled in the correct direction to close the door. Now picture that...the garage door and MDX are now physically linked in a distinctly incompatible way. The farther back the MDX moves, the more the door closes...and as they meet, the opposing forces increase.
The top of the MDX now has a distinct area of fine scratches (from dirt on bottom of rubber seal on bottom of garage door being pushed with quite a bit of force against the roof) and is missing an antenna. The cord actually broke/snapped/failed from the force of everything, so I avoided dents in the roof, ripping the entire antenna assembly off, or having something else in the equation fail (I'm glad the cord was the weak link). Luckily Acura/Honda engineers these days for stuff like this, so I think this is only going to cost me about $20 (#9 in the diagram below)...plus a little bit of polishing compound.
Time for your stories.
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