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April 17, 2024 11 mins

Christian is right in the middle of the driving lesson saga with his youngest daughter.

Kids these days have it so easy! No one drives manual cars any more. And hand brakes! Hill starts! 

We want to hear your hand brake stories.. did you forget to put yours on? Find your car halfway down the street?

 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.
I took my seventeen year old daughter hour for a
driving lesson yesterday. We're building up her hours. She's about
forty eight hours. It's eighteen in November, so we've got
quite a lot of mileageen hours ago. In the next
couple of months. It's like she's worked out the sums
of like how much is It's like every evening, I'm I,

(00:23):
where's your mummy's at home? Why is it me? We're
out in this car together and there going on some
random drive somewhere. She needs a bit about the night
hours as well. By the time you finish with.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Her, the driver cars will be Yeah, the engineers will
be done with the term.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're actually driving into the future. I mean, it's not
that back to the future. We're driving into the future. Anyway.
Yesterday I was boring her saying, you don't know, it's
much easier for you to learn her driver car now
because of automatic cars. I learned. I don't know if
you did, Patsy, but we're a proper one manual. Absolutely.
I don't think that makes a better drivers. Yeah, it does,
because you understand the car in the coordination had to

(00:58):
be a lot more act if involved in driving the
car totally. Remember how many times you would like kangaroo jump.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
It when I've never driven a manual, haven't you go
in order? I got the little a on my licenses.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
A license which I had. Oh wow, it was the
whole thing about learning when you had a manual on.
That was the sort what do they call it? The
bite point? Oh? You know when you can start the
car and it can be on a heel between that
little pen breaks down. That's the other thing as well
as well that cars you don't need to worry about
now is the handbrake. There'd be so many people right
now who have come up at a time of manual cars. Way,

(01:33):
if you didn't put that handbrake on, there wasn't any
cars years ago. It's only not that many years ago
didn't have all these alarms, dings and whistles letting you
know that you're a human idiot. Right, that's what they do,
don't they go? Hey, human idiots, human idiot do something.
No handbrake, so this car is going to start rolling
in a minute. There'd be so many stories more than

(01:55):
people who didn't put the handbrake on and a car
just suddenly starts slowly moving of its own accord.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I remember my dad come picked me up from basketball
training one time and we got out the front and
he goes, where's the car, where's the car? And then
as he's looking around with a dumbfounded look on his face,
a guy walking his dog said, if if you're looking
for a car, there's weirdly parked one at the end
of the street. And it had rolling slowly all the
way down the street and come to rest against the tree.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Sitting at the end of the street. I remember years
ago in the nineties been sat in London by the
River Thames and it was like a massive pub garden.
It was a Sunday afternoon. It was patched on the
summer and there was like a jetty and a load
of people. Because there was like no parking. It just
parked at the top of the jetty. Suddenly, my mate
no would chat. We just sort of quite slowly a
car rolled down the jetty like a boat would and

(02:43):
just go into the Thames. And then slowly so much
and some guy come running out in shorts and thongs,
very hard to run quickly in thongs as well. Out
there they go, and just was like swearing, go my car,
and then there's a series of fs as the car
just went Do you got no option? You got the
RACV submersible division. Your car's now flowing off to France

(03:05):
or somewhere.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Hey, guys, help me push it out. Three or four
of us should be able to do it.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Katelin, opproducer, You got a story about handbrake.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
So when I was about five years old, it was
soccer morning, so heading off to soccer with my two
older brothers. They were in the car and I was
coming out of the house right and I was going
up the driveway, which was a very very steep driveway. Anyway,
as I'm walking up, I look up and the car
is coming towards me, and the car only has my
two brothers in it, And at the age of five,

(03:35):
obviously very intelligent, I was.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Like, that's not right.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
So I turned around, ran down into the house, and
the car came crashing down. My brother had tried to
get into the back seat of the car.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
And had just enjoyed the rise he had knocked.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
In the process of that, he had knocked the handbrake off,
so it started rolling down the hill and my older
brother jumped into the drive seat turned the car because
if he hadn't, they would have gone straight into a
rock wall, whereas he turned it and went off the
edge and into the front of the house, hitting the
two pylons. But the thing is, and in our family
we all laugh because they actually followed the exact route

(04:15):
that I ran. So everyone says that they were trying
to kill me.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's like Indiana Jones out running that boulder.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
That is terrifying. All right, if you got a story
about a handbreak, give us a court this morning nine
four one four three for your handbrake stories. The Christian
O'Connell show podcast. It's the Christian O'Connell's show. We're talking
about the good old days of manual cars and handbrakes,
and when you're talking about handbreaks, you're really going to
talk about one thing rolling cars. I mean, it's a

(04:44):
car rolling because somebody forgot to put the handbrake on. Christian.
Many years ago, my husband and I just brought our
new home and we were wired that people could see
through our curtains into our bedroom at night. So one night,
when we got home late, he went he went. He
went inside to put the light on. I stood outside
and looked next thing. Out of the corner of my eye,
I see our car rolling backwards down the driveway, over

(05:06):
the street and into a tree on the opposite nature strip.
I tried to scream, but like you were saying yesterday,
there's something about voice at night. Meanwhile, my husband's inside
still laughing. He left the car in neutral with the
handbrake off. That's from test. So we weren't your handbrake
stories this morning? On nine four one four one four
three we got here, Kirk, Good morning, good morning, Welcome

(05:30):
to the show, Kirk. So what's your handbrake story?

Speaker 5 (05:32):
When I was a child, I was still in a
baby carrier and my mother came home from shopping. We
had any in out driveway on a hill, so you
came in the bottom next to the tops, parked at
the top of the driveway while my dad was knowing
lawns up front. I got the shopping out of the
car on the ground, got me out of the car,
put me on the ground, turned around, closed the door,
and the car rolled down the hill into the corner

(05:53):
of the head. Dad got all angry, gone, why didn't
you put your handbake on and all that sort of stuff.
He jumped in the car and drove the driveway, got it,
say in the door and a car all back into
the hair to.

Speaker 6 (06:05):
Get it.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Was like a kind of this moment.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
They're still trying to dance at the top of the
driveway to this very day.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
So not only did that have to fix the car
that weekend, he had to fix the house as well.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Incredible, incredible story, Kirk, Thank you very much. According in
about that. Have a great day, all right. If you've
got any stories about handbrakes, give us a call. Well.
Christian Connell's show podcast, we're talking about handbrake stories swim
of the days of handbrakes and cars. Christian. When I
was a kid, my mum left the handbrake off when
she went rushed to go and get some money out

(06:40):
of an ATM. Whilst we were in the car, I
just felt the car start moving, but there was no one.
Mum wasn't in the car, didn't buzz really sure what
was supposed to do was it? Was it mean it
to happen and she was gonna it was going to
go around the corner and she jump in. I didn't
even think to put the brake onner do anything. I
just opened the door went up to my moment the

(07:01):
cars started moving down the road. Now, thank you very
much your story, Stephanie. Good morning, welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
Hi Christian, Jack and Peth.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
How are you have you having a good week? Yes?

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yeah, great, thank you. Now my story is we've been
out for dinner up and the Dandenong and we used
to live at Manevolent. So we come down the steep road.
The brakes that heated up, packed the car and our
steep drive and running because it was pouring, and the
brakes cooled down. It was in gear and the handbrake

(07:40):
was on, but when the braakes cooled down, it must
have slowly released and the car slid down the drive
across the road over a little tree, thank goodness, which
clowed it down, and then it ended up on top
of the neighbor's car.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Oh my god. Mounted. Yeah, and we got one thing
being rear ended like that, mounting like.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
That, no, sir, yeah, yeah, So we've got a big
knock on the door, would.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Big old knock and listen your is on top of
mind that it doesn't like it.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
It's like David Attenburgh documentary.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
Yeah, so he was a bit upset.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, it would be more than a bit upset. Get
it down.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
Yeah, well we've got to drive and just pulled it right.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Should be right.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Good night to exchange details all over that car and
you'll be fine.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
Yeah. So that it.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Was funny no no, no, no no no, no reflection,
it gets a bit funnier. Yeah, yeah, lovely, Stephanie.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yeah, thanks again and love listening to the show.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Thank you, Stir. We love talking to you.

Speaker 6 (09:01):
Okay, thanks Age, thank you.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Bye by now Andrew, good morning.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Good morning guys, first time, long time.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh bless you now Andrew. What's your handbrake story for
this night?

Speaker 3 (09:12):
So previous job I worked in we had to hire
a budget moving truck to get some furniture out of
the customer's house, and in between taking it from the
house to where I needed to go, I pulled into
a Bunnings car park and kind of parked a truck
up the top of the hill across a couple of
car spots, just like could run into seven eleven. When

(09:33):
I got a pie and a coffee came out, the
truck was missing. I thought it had been stolen with
customer's contents in the back and then so look down
the hill into the Bunnings car park and there was
probably about twenty people standing around the truck. So I
ran down and a gentleman there who he was driving
out of the Bunnings said he'd seen the truck rolling

(09:56):
down the driveway with no one in it kind of panicked.
Watch roll over one of the little garden beds, collect
a bush, take that with it, and then pass itself
in between two cars.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
Pretty much, this.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Is why we need driving.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
His car.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Driver was parking.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Lady, better done it than you did outside seven to eleven.
It just wanted a snag. Who can resist?

Speaker 3 (10:25):
I was thinking of the job to be honestly, what.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
A way to resign?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Besides the bush, no damage to any other cars or
the vehicle.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Absolutely no damage. It collected a bush from the nature
ship that was stuck underneath, and that is.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
A small miracle. I thought you were going to say
it wiped out a load of cars, because you've never
been to a Bunnies where there's not cars everywhere in
the car park like a car domino all going on.
They're all sort of knocking into each other.

Speaker 6 (10:51):
Yeah, I was very lucky.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
The people there were very surprised, and there was three
young he'd incredibly surprised.

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Speaker 3 (11:12):
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Speaker 1 (11:15):
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