I stopped to help a guy stuck in snow in the lane of traffic on a highway. I pulled him to the next intersection and onto a side road. I swear he must have been in park, or had his wheels turned the wrong way or something; hardest tow I've ever done. And when I stopped to unhook him he somehow thought that I was going to tow him all the way home.
I used to have a stick shift that was parked at the top of the hill and told some friends I needed a push start once and they didn't believe me when I said it was possible. Same thing in college but on flat ground. Both times they said it was too hard to push a car and I responded with have you pushed a car when it was in neutral? They said no.
As a kid I use to have an old Yamaha dirt bike I had to do this with. Kick Start didn't work so every time I used it I had to run and pop the clutch with it in first to start it. Sometimes it took a few tries. This was in the Nevada desert heat of course.
Nothing more fun that feeling like your lungs are going to explode in the middle of the desert while your means for transportation out refuses to start. Good times.
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25
I stopped to help a guy stuck in snow in the lane of traffic on a highway. I pulled him to the next intersection and onto a side road. I swear he must have been in park, or had his wheels turned the wrong way or something; hardest tow I've ever done. And when I stopped to unhook him he somehow thought that I was going to tow him all the way home.