• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    Don’t think I’ll ever forget the time a friend offered to give me a ride, but didn’t warn me they were in the middle of using their car to try and move nearly everything they owned.

    Another mutual friend came with and got buried in the passenger seat under a pile of books and clothes. I ended up squeezed into a small gap inbetween a suitcase, TV, game consoles, and furniture in their back seat on top of a pile of clothes with my ankles and feet out the sun roof. It was the only way to fit.

    This was not a rare occurrence of clown car-ing with this friend, but definitely the most memorable.

    Other events include:

    • two people stacked in the passenger seat, three across the back seat row, one person lying over the laps of the three in the back seat, and our smallest friend shoved back on the ledge under the rear window behind the back seat (above the trunk)
    • one time with the car full, one friend agreed to ride in the closed trunk. At one point, the car stopped and the trunk rider assumed it had arrived at our destination, so they pulled the release cord and hopped out. The car was stopped in traffic at a stop light. They looked around confused then climbed back in the trunk and closed it.
    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      Before I met her, my wife was moving and using her car in a similar manner. Got pulled over, but her front seat was so full that she couldn’t access the glove box. Cop just conceded and let her go.

    • kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      the western version of the habal-habal!

      (photos from here)

      but yeah we have definitely had our fair share of “clown car” experiences in childhood haha

      • naeap@sopuli.xyz
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        59 minutes ago

        Your link has a “removed” part in it, that’s probably not intended, because it doesn’t work now :⁠-⁠\