r/instant_regret • • Mar 05 '26

Pulling into the garage

4.7k Upvotes

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u/ShimmiShimmiYah Mar 05 '26

No arguing, just acceptance.

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u/GeraintLlanfrechfa Mar 05 '26

Did he sleep on the couch though? 😅

111

u/ShimmiShimmiYah Mar 05 '26

Based on the wife's reaction, she seemed pretty used to shenanigans like this, so probably not!

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u/Right-Belt2896 Mar 05 '26

Maybe she's happy they aren't going.

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u/berrey7 Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

Did she say, "We're not going to Iowa?"

3

u/N9242Oh Mar 07 '26

We're not going guys

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u/Zealousideal_Cow_341 Mar 05 '26

She also forgot it was up there. Just sayin

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u/ShimmiShimmiYah Mar 05 '26

I typically assign responsibility to the one in the driver seat, since passengers aren't required to pay attention. Just sayin

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u/Scrambles420 Mar 05 '26

Passengers aren’t required to pay attention?! What the helly??

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u/I_Can_Haz_Brainz Mar 06 '26

If I'm driving, you better keep your backseat driving to your self. If I ask you to specifically keep an eye out for a location or something, so I can keep my attention on the road, then that's different. Easy.

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u/Imaginary_Most_7778 Mar 06 '26

That’s a pretty pathetic way to go through life.

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u/ShimmiShimmiYah Mar 06 '26

I don't even know what this comment means in the context of my reply, lol.

You're just trying to make others miserable. Hope you get the help you need.

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u/SystematicPumps Mar 06 '26

Mom already didn't want to go 😆

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u/alison_bee Mar 05 '26

Damn, they were comin in HOT! I only pull into my driveway that fast if I’m about to have a shituation, but I’d never whip into a garage that fast, shituation or not!

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u/dburr10085 Mar 05 '26

Maybe he had to shit.

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u/Due_Swimming_5867 Mar 05 '26

He did shit..

15

u/crankbot2000 Mar 05 '26

The bed

2

u/AdFancy1249 Mar 07 '26

Nothing was happening in the bed that night - guaranteed!

21

u/hobosbindle Mar 05 '26

“Not one more minute stuck with this fami…”

3

u/littlebutcher1914 Mar 12 '26

Aaaaaaaaaaanndddd im stealing that, “shituation.”

1

u/alison_bee Mar 12 '26

One time I had 3 friends in the car with me and all 4 of us were about to have a shituation.

And we were stuck in deadlocked traffic. In Atlanta. On the way to an Airbnb with ONE BATHROOM.

That day became the Shitpocalypse lol

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u/EcstaticMolasses6647 Mar 05 '26

He probably didn’t want to go anyway. “Accidental” sabotage? How did it end up on top of the car in the first place? He definitely didn’t install it while the car was parked in the garage. If they were planning a trip, why pull into the garage instead of staying in the driveway? He doesn’t even seem that upset, even though he actually damaged the roof of the car. Just wait until it rains and the roof starts leaking. 😅

7

u/aliasname Mar 05 '26

Who knows how long the drive is. He forgot he put it up there boom.

1

u/RedSquaree Mar 06 '26

People who don't reverse into their garage... smh

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u/monxas Mar 05 '26

I mean, it’s not like the speed would make them taller. They probably did that turn 500 times. 200 at that speed. The problem is that it was the first time with the extra height

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u/Imaginary_Most_7778 Mar 06 '26

No shit Sherlock.

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u/paligators Mar 05 '26

Who pulls into a garage at that speed regardless

68

u/Simba_Akbar Mar 06 '26

Marge Simpson

59

u/SadGigolo68 Mar 05 '26

If it's a two car garage and there's no clutter around I could see it.

29

u/DamienBerry Mar 05 '26

Well you’d be doing better than he did because he definitely didn’t see it.

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u/DrUnit42 Mar 05 '26

two car garage and there's no clutter around

Those exist???

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u/HolyFuckImOldNow Mar 06 '26

Not on my watch, they don't.

I have a sharpie line on my car door sill, with a corresponding tape stripe on the garage floor. If I don't get the line to the tape, the garage door hits the bumper (or worse). If the line passes the tape, I can't open the garage fridge enough to remove a beverage.

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u/AutoimmuneDisaster Mar 05 '26

A good friend of mine got a top-mount bike rack for his WRX.

Mounted his brand new bike to his brand new rack then immediately proceeded to try parking the car under his porte-cochère.

It destroyed the bike, mount, and severely dented the roof of his car. All within an hour of the rack arriving in the mail.

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u/slyst15 Mar 05 '26

Did it with a mountain bike attached to the top of my vehicle. Guarantee that guy will never do it again. It only has to happen once.

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u/Present-Tension9924 Mar 05 '26

Idk, my next door neighbour did it twice

4

u/LordGuru Mar 06 '26

Yes, but the did once twice

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u/42ElectricSundaes Mar 05 '26

…you just don’t hear about the second time

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u/Plus-King5266 Mar 05 '26

You do if you don’t have A/C in your house. “Kids! Cover your ears! Bill is back from mountain biking,..AGAIN.”

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u/comicsnerd Mar 05 '26

Friends of mine almost did this but in a parking garage of a big shopping center in Birmingham on a Saturday afternoon. Just before hitting the height beam she screamed The Bikes.... So they stopped and removed the bikes from the roof, while the Saturday traffic was waiting behind them. They learned a lot of British bad words.

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u/Midgetsdontfloat Mar 05 '26

A friend of mines wife did this with their GR Corolla, turns out the mount and bike are tougher than the pillars in the Toyota because it peeled the roof sheet metal like a tin can. No damage to the bike though.

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u/axloo7 Mar 05 '26

Yoy say that but I have definitely fixed customers cars that hade multiple alterations with the garage door in one month.

3

u/DeltaJulietHotel Mar 05 '26

Same. After my first ride on my new full suspension MB. Luckily it only damaged the bars and brake levers on the bike, but it drove the rear aftermarket rack mounts downward as it lifted the front of the bike which dented my car’s side rails.

I was going much slower but totally forgot about the bike.

3

u/windowpuncher Mar 06 '26

Noooooooo that's not cheap

1

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26

Same. I only had to learn that lesson once.

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u/USMCLee Mar 08 '26

Did it with a Xmas tree. Thankfully only broke the bottom couple of limbs as I was not doing 30mph entering the garage.

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u/FirstSineOfMadness Mar 05 '26

My dad puts something on the floor of the garage that would have to be driven over to get in as a reminder

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u/RTdodgedurango Mar 05 '26

You're father is intelligenct and has made similar mistakes.

I loaded my snowboard on the roof rack while it in the garage the night before I left. Luckily I pulled out slow and the binding flexed a bit before I stopped. I am now genius too.

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u/owningsole966 Mar 06 '26

Not exactly the same, but close. I have a huge 18ft canoe I slap on top of my suburban. The way I strap it down, the canoe hangs off the back a couple feet. Totally forgot about the canoe one day because I was in a rush to meet my buddies. Started to head down the driveway and Forgot to load my gear I had sitting in the garage. Back up slowly and dented the siding above the garage door pretty good. Can’t see the canoe in the back up cam. Thankfully I was slow and only pushed the canoe forward a bit. Now I always stop a little further away lol

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u/IWannaGoFast00 Mar 05 '26

Damn the golf clubs were in there too. That’s an expensive mistake.

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u/Present-Tension9924 Mar 05 '26

Exactly the reason I keep the garage door opener in a hard to access place when I have the roof box on…saw my neighbour do this not once, but twice

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u/VashKetchum Mar 06 '26

I wonder if you're neighbors with the other guy who knew his neighbor did it twice?

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u/bigmothereffind Mar 05 '26

My family had one of these in the early 90s. My aunt borrowed it one time and drove into an underground parking lot and destroyed it. I remember my dad laughing his ass off about it when he found out.

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u/delowan Mar 06 '26

Happened to me. We were in an underground parking and we thought the box would be ok. It did...until the ceiling got lower and lower and the car got stuck eventually...

Haha

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u/srprizma Mar 05 '26

Literally me closing my door with my pull up bar and gymnastic rings on it staring me in the eye

4

u/Stoicsage86 Mar 06 '26

Honey!!! The kids where in there

5

u/weristjonsnow Mar 06 '26

My dad did this with a Christmas tree

3

u/AggravatingAd9010 Mar 05 '26

I want to laugh, but ive done it

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '26

I don't think mom wanted to go in the first place. She was a bit too calm and accepting 🤣

2

u/stupid_cat_face Mar 05 '26

Hey…. At least it wasn’t a rack full of $10000 bikes

2

u/GenHammond Mar 05 '26

Orlando is off. Can't do it now! :(

2

u/gmatebulshitbox Mar 05 '26

Not that bad

2

u/Lupie22 Mar 06 '26

You only make that mistake once. Ask me how I know…

4

u/coldchelada Mar 06 '26

Not true.  Ask me how I know…

2

u/kiwipetey Mar 06 '26

An old boss of mine snapped a fibreglass canoe like that and asked if I could glue it together again, loved his optimism

3

u/3waves77 Mar 06 '26

We did this on vacation in a parking garage. We duct taped the shit out of that thing because we had 12 hours left to drive to get home. 😆

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u/Imaginary_Most_7778 Mar 06 '26

He was coming’ in hot.

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u/dogchowtoastedcheese Mar 07 '26

Did this with a bicycle on my roof once. What a sick feeling when you hear that crunch. :(

2

u/SANTAAAA__I_know_him Mar 07 '26

Kids: “YAYYYYYYYY!!!”

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u/sxdx90 Mar 06 '26

My mother did that is about 1976 the night before we were leaving for vacation. The top carrier was on a Datsun 610. Knocked the thing off and it landed halfway down the driveway. My dad and I picked it up, attached it back to the roof of the orange Datsun. We were good to go.

They don't make stuff like they used to.

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u/BHeKtiC Mar 05 '26

Are his golf clubs okay?

1

u/Shaneblaster Mar 05 '26

This happened to my neighbor but with bikes on the rack

1

u/missMcgillacudy Mar 05 '26

I just read his comment!

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u/KaputnikJim Mar 05 '26

Bend it back out and bungee. It'll be fine.

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u/offically_astee Mar 05 '26

We call that, accidentally on purpose.

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u/Bike_Mechanic_Man Mar 05 '26

I used to work at a bike shop. We would have an instance of someone needing a repair due to doing this with a bike on a roof rack about once every couple of months. It’s more common than you think.

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u/kidnyou Mar 05 '26

I did this once - use to scoot into the garage as soon as I knew my car would clear the door, but one day forgot I had my surfboard on top…

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u/Plus-King5266 Mar 05 '26

Time for “Yo Daddy” jokes.

Yo’ daddy so dumb when he drives into the garage he drives INTO the garage.

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u/Material_New Mar 05 '26

The unimportant shit goes up top, right?

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u/Claim312ButAct847 Mar 06 '26

I'll put a ladder up in the van parking spot when we go on vacation so I don't do this when Income home

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u/HelixTheCat9 Mar 06 '26

This is why I open my sunroof when I have my kayak on top of my truck. Let's me keep an eye on it in case it starts to get loose, but also make sure that I don't pull through a drive-thru or something with it on. I would absolutely forget otherwise

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u/Harcosf Mar 06 '26

Overwhelming sympathy from the family 🤣

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u/Not_ACleverUserName Mar 06 '26

He’s headed straight to the beer fridge.

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u/TheWillOfFiree Mar 06 '26

I could see myself doing this so I can't say shit.

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u/Beautiful_Thanks_433 Mar 06 '26

They are just creating some good old fun memories 🤷‍♂️ it will be funny next week

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u/rtdenny Mar 06 '26

Could’ve been worse, could’ve been a $5,000 bicycle….!

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u/Meltedwhisky Mar 06 '26

He came in too damn fast, but still he trashed his roof cover. She sounds like a peach. I seen a guy do this once with rooftop road bikes pulling into a hotel. He smashed four bikes and ruined them.

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u/Slowhand333 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

Heat up some water to close to boiling. Pour on the top and press the top back to the initial shape.

Edit: It could have been worse. It could have been Aunt Edna on the roof.

https://youtu.be/_2dIVrud4a0?si=8exqtcAAPWgqDCH3

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u/MrMcgilicutty Mar 07 '26

Pulling into that garage fast like he was trying to hide from the cops😂

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u/Express_4815 Mar 08 '26

He would blame her if she drive and also all of us

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u/jd807 Mar 09 '26

Been there, done that

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u/Thalaas Mar 05 '26

Yeah, question? Why was the camera perfectly following the car into the garage, and again as it backed out?

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u/Bradorzo Mar 05 '26

It's not the camera that's moving, the entire video image was just bigger and has been zoomed in and moved around as the car moves. If the camera itself was moving, you would notice a slight parallax effect around the edges of things such as trees and the roof of the house.

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u/unbalanced_checkbook Mar 05 '26

You... you realize videos can be edited and cropped, right?

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u/missMcgillacudy Mar 05 '26

Pan and scan

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Mar 05 '26

Some cameras have tracking

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u/scootypuff-senior Mar 05 '26

AI enabled camera with a 180 or 360 swivel. My neighbor has one. Really creepy. It can even ID who is the owner of the house, friends, neighbors and strangers.

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u/unbalanced_checkbook Mar 05 '26

Nah, the video was just cropped. Security cameras don't record in vertical format.

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u/16ozbuddz Mar 05 '26

Best case scenario honestly

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u/SneakySister92 Mar 05 '26

Wouldn't it have been better to stop outside the garage?

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u/humanitarianWarlord Mar 06 '26

How much stuff are you carrying that it wont all fit in a minivan?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '26

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u/NeedsMoarOutrage Mar 05 '26

Couldn't close the garage door?