Share your best and worst transportation stories!!

Jezie said:
Ok. My worst one would be when I was a kid. I grew up in Germany for the most part of my childhood. The German lady who raised me would only allow me to wear these skirts that were like a pillowcase with a ribbon sewn across the top to wrap around you and tie. I fought with that tie all the time. I was old enough to care that it could fall but too young to know how to solve the issue. I was rushing home and it seemed like everyone was out that day. I got to the crosswalk and when I got halfway across the tie gave up and the skirt fell off. To this day I don't wear skirts that could fall.


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I don't blame you. You wanted to NOT be embarrassed like that. I can understand how you feel-- sort of.
 
I guess mine would be from 1986 when hubby and I were just dating. He took me to Hawaii and we rented mopeds. We were driving them up this winding road and I didn't take the turn very well. Went across the oncoming lane and slid out in the dirt just feet away from a huge drop off. Hubby says he still gets the chills when he thinks about that.
 
No bicycle accidents but several car wrecks that were no fun.

One rough flight ended up as a long interstate bus ride that almost made me late for reporting for duty (a serious offense). It was a nightmare.

When I was 16 and my brother was 13 we took a bus ride from San Diego to Connecticut. It took us three days and nights. It was interesting.

When I was in Ecuador there was only one way to cross one of the tributaries of the Amazon. It was a wooden platform, like a pallet, with no sides on it. We just sat on it. It hung by ropes on a cable that was many feet up in the air, and we were zipped across the water.

Maybe TCS will post his flight experience on Ukraine Air; it was "exciting." :lol:
 
damnnnnnn A Nihilist! glad that you were ok..... nothing serious.

worst transportation? hmmm..... just too many close call accidents while riding motorcycle last year.

2 stories I can think of right now - last summer... I was riding back home from a deaf biker meeting and it was only about 20 min ride. I was very tired and sleepy. I broke my own cardinal rules - drowsy riding. I was dozing and a small curve was coming up. I woke up just in time to swerve it but just a little too late cuz I did sideswipe against the guardrail.... and kept on going. got a hole on my jeans (right knee area). my right leg felt burning and swollen. I arrived home and took off my pants. my ankle was very swollen and I was limping for a few days. very close call!!! if I didn't swerve on time, the guardrail would have cut off my leg clean. whew......

a week later.. I can feel a big dent on my shin bone :Ohno:
 
Jiro said:
damnnnnnn A Nihilist! glad that you were ok..... nothing serious.

worst transportation? hmmm..... just too many close call accidents while riding motorcycle last year.

2 stories I can think of right now - last summer... I was riding back home from a deaf biker meeting and it was only about 20 min ride. I was very tired and sleepy. I broke my own cardinal rules - drowsy riding. I was dozing and a small curve was coming up. I woke up just in time to swerve it but just a little too late cuz I did sideswipe against the guardrail.... and kept on going. got a hole on my jeans (right knee area). my right leg felt burning and swollen. I arrived home and took off my pants. my ankle was very swollen and I was limping for a few days. very close call!!! if I didn't swerve on time, the guardrail would have cut off my leg clean. whew......

a week later.. I can feel a big dent on my shin bone :Ohno:
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I did this only once-- never again, as I nearly got my head ripped off.
 
best transportation story? well I think a better wording should "the most interesting" transportation story.

2 years ago, I was riding to work in city and I saw this poor biker flagging me down. He was telling me that his Harley was leaking fuel all over the place. I looked down and yea it was nothing I can fix. He asked me if I can kindly take him down to biker dealership at the end of the highway (West Side Highway aka Joe DiMaggio Highway aka 9A). He was a short stocky heavy fella so I wasn't too sure about it but I let him on and my bike was bottomed out :lol:

so every little bump felt bit unpleasant. I rode slow and steady. finally arrived at dealership 20 min later. sux to be him cuz of the towing and repairing expenses. oh well.
 
worst transportation story.

I was doing grocery run with my mom and I was at this parking lot to get onto road. all of sudden, a motorcyclist fell off and both biker and bike were tumbling down the street. he never got up. she was screaming hysterically. it was a very traumatic experience for her because I guess she was visualizing that it could have been me sliding down the street :(

fortunately, the police was already there and quickly cordoned off the traffic so we were stuck there. my mom had to watch the whole thing - from officer checking onto injured rider to EMT putting him on a stretcher to etc. the accident didn't bother me at all but it did bother me that it was a very traumatic experience for my mom :(
 
Jiro said:
worst transportation story.

I was doing grocery run with my mom and I was at this parking lot to get onto road. all of sudden, a motorcyclist fell off and both biker and bike were tumbling down the street. he never got up. she was screaming hysterically. it was a very traumatic experience for her because I guess she was visualizing that it could have been me sliding down the street :(

fortunately, the police was already there and quickly cordoned off the traffic so we were stuck there. my mom had to watch the whole thing - from officer checking onto injured rider to EMT putting him on a stretcher to etc. the accident didn't bother me at all but it did bother me that it was a very traumatic experience for my mom :(
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I hope your mom is doing better? It definitely was traumatic for her.
 
I've got too many to list, but the grossest/funniest one was this.

I was on the el, and a guy sits behind me. Soon I realize he's moving a lot. He's got his dick out and is trying to jerk off, but his dick won't get hard and it's flopping all over the place.

I moved and sat in the middle of a pack of women who didn't speak English and couldn't quite understand why I suddenly got up and sat with them.

Note: This was entirely because I didn't want splooge in my hair, I wasn't threatened by the guy, you could tell he had mental illness.
 
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stuck on train seven hours because of train breakdown....No refreshments as electric to canteen broke down..Hot day and rush hour.It was the quiet carrage and a woman was knitting which was driving a few people mad deafness was advantage
The other was years ago,on London underground the whole of network broke down train still in tunnel thankfully not far to overground,We all led down track to station called Leyton,i remained jibering wreck for weeks after then read in paper those lines were live....I now become clausphobic and travel miles out of my way to avoid tube even had counselling..a fireman and train personel walk us down to platform...quite a few of us refused to get out but firemen assertive...
I do so much train travel got many stories but that was the worse
 
I have another worst transportation story. I was on the #56 Milwaukee bus headed north for home, and what should have been an hour long trip ended up taking 3 HOURS, and when I got home 4 hours later, I was peeved, and sore. Note to self: don't take the bus past Western again. Since that incident, I hadn't ridden the #56 bus until last year.
 
Today I went to catch the streetcar. I was waiting for quite a long time and when a bus on another route pulled up and stopped, a lady who was waiting started complaining through the door at the driver that they were the third bus that had gone past on that route but no streetcars yet, what is taking so long? The bus driver countered that on a Sunday there'd only be two buses on that route. The woman argued back that she wasn't hallucinating, it was three, and the driver just closed the door and drove off.

I looked at my phone (I have an app called 'Rocketman' that shows the location of each transit vehicle) and sure enough, there were three buses on that route. I made the mistake of showing the lady this, which just validated her and made her angrier! When the streetcar arrived it was very busy and a transit supervisor appeared to talk to the driver to tell them to short turn at the next loop. The woman cornered him and started ranting about the rude bus driver LYING about how there were only two buses when there are three and this nice young man had proved it with his phone app yadda yadda yadda.

Another passenger who'd been waiting with us whispered that I shouldn't have said anything, as now our full car and the one waiting behind us were now not going anywhere until the lady had finished shouting at the supervisor. Bleh!
 
metalangel said:
Today I went to catch the streetcar. I was waiting for quite a long time and when a bus on another route pulled up and stopped, a lady who was waiting started complaining through the door at the driver that they were the third bus that had gone past on that route but no streetcars yet, what is taking so long? The bus driver countered that on a Sunday there'd only be two buses on that route. The woman argued back that she wasn't hallucinating, it was three, and the driver just closed the door and drove off.

I looked at my phone (I have an app called 'Rocketman' that shows the location of each transit vehicle) and sure enough, there were three buses on that route. I made the mistake of showing the lady this, which just validated her and made her angrier! When the streetcar arrived it was very busy and a transit supervisor appeared to talk to the driver to tell them to short turn at the next loop. The woman cornered him and started ranting about the rude bus driver LYING about how there were only two buses when there are three and this nice young man had proved it with his phone app yadda yadda yadda.

Another passenger who'd been waiting with us whispered that I shouldn't have said anything, as now our full car and the one waiting behind us were now not going anywhere until the lady had finished shouting at the supervisor. Bleh!
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I'm sorry you had it rough. Better luck next time.
 
When I was a kid riding with my family in our old red 1977 Impala wagon, it would break down. It broke down once in Lake Geneva.
 
Riding in the back of an ambulance...the EMT's did not secure me on the stretcher for some reason...:giggle:...and the 1 ENT that was in the back of the ambulance went up into the cab to talk to the driver about something...The driver had to hit the brakes for some reason...and I went flying forward...thanking my lucky stars at least the back door of the ambulance was secured/locked...or I might have went flying out and down the street...
 
rockin'robin said:
Riding in the back of an ambulance...the EMT's did not secure me on the stretcher for some reason...:giggle:...and the 1 ENT that was in the back of the ambulance went up into the cab to talk to the driver about something...The driver had to hit the brakes for some reason...and I went flying forward...thanking my lucky stars at least the back door of the ambulance was secured/locked...or I might have went flying out and down the street...
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:laugh2: Sounds like something you would see in a cartoon if it did happen!!
 
Yeah...it did happen to me...had pulled a lumbar muscle in my back (lifting weights) and could not get out of bed...so the EMT's put a board under me and got me on the stretcher...to note....I slept in the nude (hot summer time)...and they had to throw a sheet over me...:giggle:...very embarrassing, I'll say!...and in-between trying to hold the sheet over me and stay on the stretcher...and if the back door to that ambulance had not been locked...and if I got thrown out into the street...and the sheet flying in the wind.......you can guess the rest of it!....
 
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