Right, roll up, roll up - driving off with random stuff on the car roof

I might know someone who once allowed the driver to move off before removing the pavlova she'd put on the roof. <ahem>

A tub of playdough. Which unfortunately fell off as I turned out of our road, got driven over by someone else then rained on. I didn't realise until I got home (not having noticed it was missing) and wondered what the disgusting mess on the road was and who on earth would leave it there. I made H go out and clear it up, I was too embarrassed.

Yep - i do this a lot really

most recently my (unzipped) handbag so receipts, lipsticks and tampons all flew in a wake behind me down the a55

most tragically with a pair of v beautiful moschino sunglasses which were not covered on my insurance [:'(]

A pair of Finns shoes.... I got about 20 mins away then he asked me where his shoes were... had to drive back and retrieve them from the road.

Wellies?

? You must drive very smoothly (and very slowly). JK Granny driver ?

We once drove about 20 miles before we realised the cat was asleep in the back of the car! Would have been fine but we were going on holiday and he was meant to be being looked after by the neighbours.

Not on the car, but I left the pushchair beside the car a few weeks ago and wondered why the person moving into my parking space was making frantic gestures and hooting at me.

Thats my favorite.

<snort> loving the cat and the pavlova here ?

Mine was a cup of coffee. What a fright I got when I braked at the next set of lights and it spilled all down the windscreen - thank god it was a paper cup!

My ex boss left her laptop bag on top of her BMW but when she was reversing it fell off and she drove over it! I have to say I've never put anything on the roof of my car in the first place.

On honeymoon in France we drove off having filled the campervan up with petrol... and got at leasta couple of miles before realising the petrol cap was still on the bonnet. Mr R-A hanging out the window trying to reach it as I went round a busy roundabout is a sight I won't forget ?

We did the same thing again, in France last October half term. Sadly it flew off at speed on a busy road before we realised, so was temporarily replaced by the top of a yoghurt pot plus lots of gaffa tape ? You'd think we'd have learnt....

I was driving behind someone the other week who had half a watermelon on the roof of their car. When they stopped at lights, a random pedestrian jumped into the road and passed it to the driver through the window.

That is brilliant!!!!

Slightly at a tangent but we were leaving our hotel we'd stayed at in Ohio for Christmas (visiting relatives) and left one of the suitcases by the side of the car. Didn't realize until that night when I was looking for my toiletries and after we'd driven 8 hours.

We had to have the hotel mail it back to us.

A castle-shaped blue bucket and spade, a half-full baby's bottle and a luminous green cereal bowl half-full of peanuts. All at different times, you understand, I am not a looper (much.)

LOL - I thought that was quite good going for one attempt until I read the post propery!!!

Oh I do love hitched[:'(]

? Great thread. I have actually never done this, but further to the cat story...

I used to work with a particularly difficult sonofawhatnot who, driving home after lunch with a friend, realised the friend's cat was asleep in his car. He stopped and evicted the cat - about 10 miles from the friend's house ? Amazingly, the cat found its way home, but even more amazingly, the friend forgave him - until he went on to embezel (sp?) tens of thousands from another mutual friend's business.

Goes to show - people who are cruel to cats cannot be trusted in any walk of life.

I packed up all my worldly belongings into my car and drove about 3 miles from one rented house to another only to find my mobile phone on the roof of the car when I got to my destination. I'm amazed it was still there, given the number of roundabouts I encountered en route. It was about 16 years ago, mind you, so the phone was a bit of a brick. And it explains why that nice man waved at me at the traffic lights. ?

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Cat ?

These are brilliant. I'm disappointed that I can't add to them though <sulk>

Mine sounds like something from a bad comedy sketch show! My mum left for work, leaving her purse on the car roof, dad spotted this from the front door as she pulled out of the driveway so grabbed his bike and took off after her (in the days before mobiles, you understand). He cycled off after her, waving frantically.
Unfortunately, he hit a pothole and came off his bike and was taken to A&E by anothe driver while mum drove to work none the wiser. And then saw her purse on the car roof when she arrived.

Oh, Hickory, bless your dad but that is hilarious ?

When I was about 12 or so, dad was training for some run or other and we dropped him off 10 miles from home after picking mum up from work. For whatever reason he left his glasses on the roof of the car, didn't realise when mum drove off and then found them squished about half a mile up the road...

Following on with the cat stories...

My dad likes to play hockey. A lot. I'm amazed he can still play actually! Anyway, about 10 years ago he left for a match, 1.5 hrs away from home in the car he hears a miow. The other passengers also hear a miow. My parents cat crawls out from underneath the passenger front seat!

Because they were so close to their destination they carried on with their journey and begged for a bowl of water and some ham from the other teams clubhouse at the other end and left the cat in the car with all the windows cracked open during the match before taking it home again!

My mum got pissed, had an arguement with one of my younger brothers, who was about 18 at the time, she then decided to drive off (whilst drunk.....) My step Dad (in his infinite wisdom) decided to jump on to the bonnet of the car to try and stop her driving, but she didn't.....

Is it any wonder I haven't spoken to my mum in over 2 years?!

PS My step dad is a vicar, imagine if someone from the parish had seen it!

Oooh yes, I can contribute to this.

I had done the 'pay at the pump' at the petrol station and must have left my purse on the roof without realising. I knew I'd lost it but wasn't sure how, so I cancelled my cards, etc. Bit gutted because it was a really pretty Radley purse.

4 days later I get a call on my mobile from the police station (goodness knows how they got my mobile number) to say "great news! someone's handed in your purse" Hooray, I thought, my lovely purse is to be returned! Erm, no - got to the station and they handed over my purse. I say purse, it was unrecognisable. Totally and utterly shredded to pieces. Even the coins had been broken in two, all the cards were in a million little splinters.

Someone had picked it up from the side of the dual carriage way between the petrol station and my house. I can only imagine 32 million HGVs had run over it before the kind person picked it up. ?

I can't even say that this is the first time I've done it. Whilst pulling out of a motorway services a man approached the car waving his hands in an odd manner. As I was on my own with the children, I locked my doors and held up a mini can of hairspray, hoping he'd believe it was mace ?. The poor bloke was just trying to tell me I'd left 2 sucky cups on the roof of my car. I was so ashamed I'd been so suspicious.

I've left a child's car seat on the roof, a lever arch file, my handbag, and a washing basket... I do it quite a lot.

Reading these I can understand how we often get buggies and car seats left in the car park at work!!

Waaaaah @ Janna threatening people with a mini can of hairspray ?

Aah this thread has made me PMSL

Watermelon ?

Cat ?

Vicar ?

Not me, but my step-mother drove a fair few miles with a pavlova on the roof.

One of the benefits of being fairly short and having a Scenic, I think - I never put things on my car roof.

? at the hairspray/mace.

It was one of those Toni & Guy travel cans that is silver with 'Toni & Guy' written on the side in massive red letters, so he knew exactly what I was holding up,poised to spray him with.

Regarding driving a people carrier - that doesn't stop me, I have a Mazda 5. But I am 5' 10" so the roof does (obviously) seem a good shelf for me.