My friend Brittanie has one of the most ridiculous little cars I've ever seen in my entire life. I seriously want to just call it "Little Put-Put." One day, she's going to be driving that thing and it's going to explode on her, and unfortunately she'll have to explode with it. When she sticks the key in to lock it, it gives out a little honk that sounds like a girl trying to hide a fart. It's ridiculous.
One weekend she flew back home to surprise her boyfriend, leaving myself and my friend Josh with her car. We drove her out to the airport so she could fly out, and we took her car. On our way back, the piece beneath the steering wheel just fell off. All the wires and everything just...plop. No motivation or anything; we were just sitting at a stoplight.
I didn't really know how to react to that, and Josh looked at me and said, "So...That was weird." We had a good laugh but we didn't know what to do. I took a picture of the piece and sent it to Brittanie with a "Wtf?" caption. She said, "Oh, right, that happens all the time." Way to warn us?
That wasn't even the worst, or most ridiculous, part. We decided we wanted pizza and we texted her to ask her if it was all right if we used her car. She said it was cool, so we took it to Little Caesar's. We parked in the 5 minute only zone, because we were just going to run in and order the pizza and then leave.
We went inside, ordered, all that jazz, and went back to her car. Josh put the key in the ignition, but it didn't fit. We thought that was a little odd, because obviously we had just driven the car to Little Caesar's, so we had no idea why the key wouldn't fit.
Josh jingled with the key a little bit, trying to get it to fit. We were getting really agitated because none of us knew why it wouldn't work.
Then...
The ignition fell out. Really? How the hell did that happen? When he finally got the key to fit, it wouldn't turn on. So when he took the key out to try to fumble with it again, the ignition came out with it.
We were a bit panicky at this point, because we sort of broke her car. The ignition is a relatively important piece of the vehicle, and it was currently sitting in the lap of the driver. We texted her, but she didn't respond. We texted her boyfriend, but he didn't respond either.
Of course, we found this to be hilarious. We were laughing and everything, but we didn't know what to do! We were in a 5 minute only parking zone, so I was hoping we wouldn't get ticketed, because I was figuring if we got caught we'd show them we sort of had an ignition problem and there wasn't much we could do.
A half an hour. A half an hour we sat there, trying to get her ignition back where it was supposed to be. She FINALLY called us back and asked what was up, and we told her her ignition fell out. Same response, "Oh, right, that happens all the time." Are you kidding? If you let somebody borrow your car, please, for the love of God, warn them if there's something as severe as "the ignition tends to fall out."
We eventually got the stupid thing back to where it was supposed to be and drove off to get back to school. I don't think I've been in that car since.