THE WORST THING A PASSENGER DID IN MY CAR

(September, 2024) The Jalopnik automotive website asked readers, “What’s the the worst thing a passenger has done in your car?” Some of the responses:
– “I was once driving to Bowling Green, Kentucky, with three friends to visit the National Corvette Museum. My friend Curt called shotgun, neglected to mention that he absolutely SUCKED at reading maps, and we wound up 50+ miles off course before we realized we were on the wrong highway (I-24 instead of I-65.)”
– “Friend reached over and honked the horn at someone else on my behalf. I yelled at him severely.”
– “Had a passenger lean across from the back seat to shoot a BB gun at another car because ‘he thought it was his friend’s car.’” I pulled over and kicked him out of the car. Six hours later, I had to go drag him back to my house to explain to the cop in my house that I was not to blame.”
– “A girlfriend and I were on a spring break road trip from Pennsylvania to Florida and we broke up around Fort Myers on the way home. Man, that was a long, quiet and uncomfortable 1000-mile drive home.”
– “Friend got phenomenally drunk and peed all over his gear while camping, and then threw it in my car without recognizing how much urine was actually in one of the bags. Boy, that was an awful couple of hours driving both before, and the after, we found the source of the smell.”
– “A friend flicked a cigarette out of the window, and it boomeranged back in the car via the open sunroof, and it burned a hole in the leather backseat of my brand-new Saab 9-3.”
– “Friend got into my recently acquired Toyota AE86 with his pet parrot. As we’re driving, his parrot bites him on the finger and he throws the parrot in the backseat and takes a couple swings at him. Feathers are flying, this guy is bleeding in my car and I’m trying not to crash. When we arrive, he puts the parrot on the roof, and it starts tearing away the rubber seal around the windshield.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What’s the worst thing a passenger has done in your car? No pee or puke stories, please.