Stupid car tricks

It never ceases to amaze me the stupid things people do with their cars. I've ranted before about the stupid accessories and weird-assed paint jobs some people have, but this time I want to talk about the little stupid things I've seen people do WITH their cars, not TO them.

I stopped for an oil change after work yesterday, and at the gas pump, there was a guy washing his entire car from top to bottom with the windshield squeegie. Somehow he managed to get to every nook and cranny on his car. While he did a decent job with the squeegie, I couldn't help but wonder if he knew how old that windex/water/window grime combination really was that he just sloshed all over his Lincoln Town Car to "clean" it.

I really wouldn't have brought this up if it hadn't been for the fact that A) he was ten feet from the automatic car wash that whole time, and B) after he finished, THEN he pre-paid for his gas and filled the tank...I mean, for fuck's sake, man...If you're gonna do shit like that, pre-pay first and clean while you pump your gas. Because now, you just look like a cheapskate with no time management skills.

Another stupid thing I saw was today at lunch. I was waiting in traffic (first at the light) when driving on the cross street was an old Ford Escort with a guy leaning half-way out the back passenger window trying to close the gas cap door WHILE the car was doing about 30 MPH through the intersection. Now, there's a guy with good time management skills, but piss-poor judgement and a really stupid friend.

And the ultimate story of stupid car usage was with one of my neighbors at my old apartment who asked to borrow my jack so he could jack up BOTH sides of his car in order to rotate the tires. He told me he had one side up already using his jack but wanted to elevate the other side. I looked out in the parking lot and he e had already taken the tires off on one side. As much as I wanted to witness how he could possibly balance his car perfectly on two jacks and pull this off, or maybe just watch/videotape the dmage/possible injury that this guy would inevitably inflict, I politely decined his request. I did, however, watch from my window as he spent 45 minutes trying to figure out what to do next.