Several years ago I parked the 300SDL where I don't normally park it and then later that night backed into the right rear quarter panel with the four-wheeler.

Same car, a year later, the first time I ever changed a Mercedes flat tire, young and impatient. Got the jack out, didn't know there were jack holes under those plastic covers, and thought the little jack foot was supposed to just stick under the side of the car instead. Jack proceeded to fold inwards, inwards, inwards until, as the car settled slowly to the ground again (tire wasn't off yet) the top of the jack left a nice jack-shaped dent in the chrome up near the right front jack point.

Same car, a different year, slammed on the brakes in some ice and never thought to release them until I fishtailed my way down a bank and into a white oak.

When I was about 7 I backed our F-250 into our Cub Lo-Boy lawn tractor. Not a small lawn tractor. A 5-foot deck behemoth made in the 60s or 70s out of sturdy metal. Bent the rear sheetmetal surfaces, crushed the battery holder and the ground cable. The following summer I was backing that truck up towards the porch to load some trash and sprung the (open) door back against a tree.

Not car related, I got the bright idea one time that if I could measure how many volts were in a wall socket with a meter, i could also measure the number of amps that were in it. Stuck the plus and minus leads into a power strip just like they were a lamp. Power strip made an interesting "pffffttt" noise as it cooked itself, blew its internal wiring loose, and melted my meter probe tip.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL