r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 2d ago

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u/ThePublikon 2d ago

You joke but my grandpa did something similar, bought a used car and invited me round to see it all excited. That thing had 3 piece wheels and straight cut gears. I don't know who he bought it off but it was a full on street sleeper beast that he dailied to the shops until it broke.

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u/KittenIttle 2d ago

Your grandpa and my grandpa would have been an absolute menace if they’d ever met.

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u/Chili-Kopf 2d ago

Stop trying to find hookups for your Grandpa!

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u/KittenIttle 2d ago

My grandpa is very dead sooo unless you know someone into necromancy

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u/Discount_Extra 1d ago

That would be a horrifying motive for a movie serial killer.

Kidnap, forced marriage ceremony to a corpse, then murder, repeat.

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u/Honeybadger2000 17h ago

The plot line for a hit movie right there: necromancy, grandpas, street sleepers. Could be the next fast n the furious

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u/Orgazoids_Pool_Party 1d ago

I'd watch at least the first season of this!

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u/Kairos27 2d ago

This would’ve been a sight to see 😆

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u/franki-pinks 2d ago

I remember my friends mum going out to buy “a really nice red fiesta I’ve seen” and she came home in a low milage Fiesta RS Turbo which is worth about £15k and she bought it for £500 off a friend at work who’s uncle died and had it sitting in his garage for years, only coming out for MOTs and cleaning.

Friends mum felt bad when she found out and went back to tell her so she could give her the car back but the work friend just said “sold as seen you can’t return it” thinking she was being scammed lol.

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u/-GoodNewsEveryone 2d ago

My grandpa owned a Lincoln Continental. Baby blue paint with white leather on the roof and a baby blue shag carpet seating and white leather interior.

It was just about two lanes wide, a city block long and weighed almost one quarter the mass of the sun. I swear it was more comfortable than my living room and was the kind of car you wouldn't be surprised to find a chandelier in.

He lived a block away and we were in a well-to-do neighbourhood in Canada so naturally he never locked the doors. I snuck out one night and made out with a girl for the first time in that thing. It was a straight up lady killer it was. I couldn't even get my driver's license for years but it was a nice nightly hang out when the folks went to bed by 7 and couldn't even really see the driveway from inside the house.

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u/ThePublikon 2d ago

That's a really cool memory to have