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I only have one, and it’s not very entertaining.
I was on a bus going to work. A few stops before mine the bus gets cut off by another bus. The driver started yelling at the other driver then pulled over and got out of the bus to, I assume, escalate the conflict. We were near my stop anyway, so I got off before things could get hairy.
Nowhere near as high-stakes as some of the others here, but…
When I was 16 or so, I was hanging out with a few friends and one of them pulled out a joint and a bottle of some kind of liquor, and started passing it around. I got a really bad feeling about it and bailed on it.
Found out the next day that after I’d left, they’d gotten pretty drunk and/or high, and had decided it would be a good idea to take one of their mother’s minivan for a drive around their property. They scraped the side of it on something, took off a huge bit of paint, and then decided the best course of action would be to use some spray paint they found in the garage to try and cover it up.
They were all grounded for quite a long time, a fate I managed to avoid by leaving when I did.
No substances were involved, but when I was 16, my parents went out for the night and my buddy and I took my mom’s new Jeep Cherokee for a ride down a moderately serious fire trail near my house. It had rained and there were a few long puddles to ford, maybe axle deep at most.
Anyways we got it good and muddy and we were worried it got scratched on branches, so we took it to a 24 hour car wash, cleaned it, and everything looked great. Then while dropping off my buddy, I closed the back door and it didn’t latch all the way so I sorta hip checked it closed. The fucking thing caved in, and had a serious crease in just below the body line by the door handle. Like it was mad of cardboard.
Anyway I got in trouble and we mostly pulled the dent back, but never fully fixed it and had to hear shit about it for years after.
But they never knew that we had it on 3 wheels and possible airborne an hour or two before the door dent.