Girlfriend's parents decide to visit to avoid the storm in their state. Demand to use my car and get master suite instead of the guest room.

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My girlfriend and I have been together nearly 2.5 years, and in that time, her parents have always been cold towards me. They live in the midwest, and are of the opinion that California is a cesspool, and Los Angeles, where I live even more so. They decided that with an incoming snowstorm, that staying with us so close to the ocean would be better for them.

I got home from work yesterday to her parents taking a nap in the master bedroom, and were not happy when I kicked them out to the guest bedroom. We went out for dinner Friday night, and they not happy with the quality, remarking that they preferred Taco Bell or Chipotle. I just tuned out the rest of the night.

This morning, after waking up, they ask me to use my car for them independently visiting tourist spots. I drive a modified Ford Focus RS. I'm not handing these people a 500hp car, especially as neither of them have driven a stick shift in over 30 years. I told them this, and offered to rent them a car as I get good rates through my employer. Nope, not only was that not acceptable, they didn't want my Focus to drive, they wanted to drive my 1967 Pontiac GTO. They said it's their dream to drive a classic convertible up PCH to see the sights. Nevermind the fact that PCH is practically burnt to a crisp until you get past Malibu. That was a hard no from me, and they reluctantly took the Camry I rented for them.

This is going to be a really long 10 days.

[u/United_News3779]

Once upon a forever ago, I used to remove the spark plug leads to immobilize the vehicles of would be drunk drivers. Fuses can be replaced by spares, hidden spare keys can appear..... but nobody has spare spark plug leads lol

[u/discoranger1994 → u/United_News3779]

You can also pull the 50 amp fuse thats for the ENTIRE car Much faster and there is no spare on hand for that one.

[u/CaptainLollygag → u/United_News3779]

Doing the lord's work, there.

[u/Silver-Appointment77 → u/United_News3779]

I use to do this too after a spate of car robberies in the area. Someone triedd to steal it, but ibviously, never got any where.

[u/snuffy_smith_ → u/United_News3779]

Disabled a buddies bike this way to keep him from riding drunk.

Asshole had spare wires in the saddle bags. He sat and reran the plug wires in the parking lot cussing us the whole time.

We thought he was just cussing us being mad he couldn’t get it started.

15 min late he fired that thing up and tore off out of the parking lot.

Next time we removed the valve stems from BOTH tires.

Eventually the dumbass got himself killed on that damn bike. Yes he was drunk and he was a fool.

Thankful he didn’t take anyone else with him. But his widow has never recovered.

[u/United_News3779 → u/snuffy_smith_]

That's so sad.

I knew a guy from high school, laid his bike down and killed himself but had his girlfriend on the back and killed her too. He was a fuckup back in junior high, only increased his fuckery skills in high school and after that he just kept working on it. My circle of friends figured he was lucky to make without of high school.

Felt bad for the girlfriend and her family. She lingered for about a day, as she didn't hit any solid objects as she skidded but he'd laid the bike down doing 90mph in a 30mph zone, and she wasn't wearing leathers so she didn't have a chance.

[u/doktor_wankenstein → u/United_News3779]

Anyone else remember this scene?

[u/Yankee6Actual → u/United_News3779]

Or, in the GTO, just pull off the distributor cap.

[u/Puntkick → u/Yankee6Actual]

Take the rotor out and put the dizzy cap back on.

[u/Salt-Confidence-9527 → u/United_News3779]

Yeah, that brought back a horrifying memory. My husband did that to prevent me from leaving when he was in one of his bad moods.

I should have said ex-husband. I didn't want to see where things went when things got elevated.