Hey look.. I really DO understand.. and I am in agreement and have total understanding ( and I hate to side with you all against my own gender..)
but girls aren't the only ones that don't stop when the engine is clattering or the hot button comes on...or the brakes are squalling..or other logical reasons and indicators to STOP the vehicle immediately..
I am mindful of all of those things..
but....... 
I did once park in front of a gas meter in a persons front yard drive..get out of the car.. go into the house.. came right back out.. get in and drive right over the damned thing.. busting it and high centering my husbands T-Bird.

Gas was spewing all over the place .. the city boys had to come down and turn off the gas.. Mark had to come and actually throw the car in reverse to get it off...
sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....THAT wasn't a happy day... or night..or the next day or night ..or.... wellllll.. I think you understand.

oh yea.. then there was the time when we were just living together and he bought a new 240Z Datsun. We also had a big Goldwing motorcycle..which he had parked in this "little" garage.. well.. I had driven the new car the few blocks uptown..and came back and was going to park it into the garage.. but I had to really squeeze into the little space that he left by the bike.
I guess ..

I got too close to the side of the garage where there was this big bolt that was sticking out of the frame of the side of the garage.. and ..well..........

I kinda got too close and it kinda got caught on the side of the car..and I kinda just thought I could gun it a bit and maybe it would come off.. but **shaking my head** it only drove it deeper and longer in the metal of the door and gouged it so bad it really stuck.

We owned the hardware store and I walked uptown to the store and he was in the coffee shop for a break and I was bawling..and tried to tell him (amongst about 8 guys) what I had done.
he sighed .. took a deep breath and said he would take care of it.
He moved the bike.. and cranked the wheel and he had to floor it and just rip it loose. (The sound was awful)
I think the only reason I am alive today is because we hadn't been together as a couple for very long.
He went ahead and married me later on and it lasted 25 years.. and no..that wasn't the last of the dumb things I did.. but.. I always stopped when the car made funny noises.
