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Tripp Crosby and Cars

August 17th, 2010 - Uncategorized - 31 Comments »

Over the past few years, I’ve been compiling a list of Tripp Crosby’s most infamous automobile moments, waiting for the perfect time to share it with the world. When we got in a wreck a couple of weeks ago on our way to Panama City, I knew it was time. Here are my 12 favorite…

1. One day we ate a 45-minute lunch at Jersey Mike’s, only to come back out to Tripp’s car and realize he’d left it running the entire duration of our meal.

2. When I kicked the bumper off of his car in this video, it came off so easily because earlier that week he had driven through his grandmother’s bushes and ripped it clean off.

3. The wreck I mentioned above was the result of Tripp rear-ending a truck at 15 miles per hour. Both of our air bags deployed, but we were going so slow, our faces didn’t even make contact with them. He’s been driving a Chevy Cobalt for the last month while it gets repaired.

4. Speaking of the Cobalt, he ran out of gas twice in the same week last week.

5. Tripp recently forgot to put his (week-old) car in park on his sloped driveway, ran inside for a second, and came back out to see that it had rolled down the driveway and across the street into his neighbor’s garden.

6. When Tripp worked at a camp in college, the other staffers got ahold of his spare key. When Tripp would drive them to Walmart, one of them would sneak out and move the car a space over, then a few spaces over, then in the same spot but turned around. Eventually they would move it to the entirely opposite side of the parking lot. He never noticed.

7. Tripp bought a 4Runner from a dealership, took it back and exchanged it for a Toyota Matrix, hated that, took it back and exchanged it for another 4Runner, all within a four day span.

8. In college he couldn’t figure out why his car always smelled so bad. He finally opened his trunk to find a lunch his mom had packed for him for his ride back to school – 3 months earlier. In his words, there were roughly 899 maggots where his sandwich used to be.

9. Tripp recently got pulled over for an expired tag…on the way to the tag office to get it renewed. Fortunately, the cop didn’t give him a ticket due to how distracted he was by Tripp’s sound system.

10. He used to have a motorcycle. Then someone stole it.

11. Tripp was his brother-in-law’s best man. On the wedding day, Tripp was responsible for taking him to the ceremony. Of course, he locked his keys in the car and caused them to be late.

12. Tripp is the only person in history to run over his own MacBook Pro.

You got any Tripp car stories? I’m sure there are more out there.

And if you have any embarrassing car moments of your own, I’m sure he’d love for you to share.

  • http://www.thegraceimages.blogspot.com Amy Hall

    In the past two years I have locked my keys in my car 10 times. Once with the kids in the car and it was running! 911 was called that time!

  • trippcrosby

    Thanks for this post Tyler. I can't wait to write about how few mistakes you've made in life.

    • Tyler Stanton

      with the amount of time you spend pointing out the roundness of my head to large crowds, this seems perfectly legitimate………………..tyler stanton

      • http://catalystspace.com Jesse Phillips

        And he points out your widows peak a lot too!

  • http://www.carlynsworld.com Carlyn

    In the 3 years my husband and I have been together I have had 3 flat tires, locked my keys in the car 4 times and curb checked just about every burb in our city. On prom day I wrecked both my parents car's in one accident and my friend who was driving the other car didn't have a license not even a learner's permit. My Dad was super excited about that one.

  • Russ Ray

    We stole my sister-in-law's getaway car on her wedding day. She and my brother-in-law had to ride 20 miles to the reception with the photographer and his assistant in the photog's Ford Escort. They should have taken a video of her getting the dress in and out of the car.

  • Ed B

    #12 *might* be true, but I ran over my own 17" Powerbook, had it covered by my car insurance, and then got a 17" MacBook Pro to replace it …

  • darooda

    I got to meet my date for the evenings father, after getting out of the car, locking the door, and realizing I didn't put the car in park. It starts rolling and I'm walk/running beside it trying to get the key in to unlock the door. It did stop, after hitting the mail box. So yes, I got to meet my date for the evenings father with his mail box in hand. He was a nice enough guy and even helped me fix it the next day, but needless to say that didn't turn into a long term relationship.

  • http://www.overdivulgent.blogspot.com Lauren

    I had two identical wrecks on the SAME DAY, but two years apart (the day before Thanksgiving) in the same car, same area of Birmingham, Alabama, and same part of my car damaged to the specific little parts. Both were 4-vehicle wrecks with me at the tail-end causing it all. (I may or may not have been reading the back of new CDs I'd bought for the drive home in both instances.) I wrecked that car 7 times in the 6 years I had it (though not every one was my fault, naturally).

    Needless to say, I'm not the preferred driver in my group.

  • Erin

    I was finishing up my gas-pumping transaction one evening, when i saw a couple of my youth kids studying outside the coffee shop next door…of course i ran over to chat with them for a few minutes. upon returning to my car, i jumped in, started the car, then began to drive away…with the gas pump still attached to my car. It broke away from the stationary unit and i dragged it through the lot. I heard it break off, as did my youth kids next door, so i parked and ran inside to tell the attendant i had broken his machine. he wasn't too concerned, apparently it "happens all the time", and was glad that it hadn't still been pumping at the time. still…really embarassing and definitely infamous at youth group for the next few years.

  • Tim Bratley

    more from the road with tripp:

    1) I believe he layed down his motorcycle about 3 weeks before it got stolen so the value went way down. but insurance had no idea…

    2) met tripp at the airport to drive down to florida in his brand new car. while playing with his new GPS we missed the turn for I-75 about 5 times and may three laps around airport terminal north. in 45 minutes we drove 27 miles and still never left the airport.

    3) on same trip i melted M & Ms in the back seat of his brand new car because i figured it was a matter of time before he got rid of that car, wrecked it, or just flat out lost it.

  • samantha

    just what i needed today- my crappy day has been redeemed. thanks for being special, tripp :) and thanks for being such a jerk, tyler!

  • http://www.twitter.com/Auntymelly007 Melanie E

    #1 All he needs is an I Love Global Warming bumper sticker

  • Kyle

    I've had two accidents in my life:

    1) I was 15 and pulling into my garage. I mistook the brake pedal for the gas ans floored it… right into Dad's '66 Corvette.

    2) I backed into, again, Dad's Mercedes and and crunched the front right the bumper.

    Two wrecks, my garage, my driveways, Dad's cars. Sorry Dad.

    • Wes_Ballance

      The '66? Really?

      Actually, I remember doing something similar when I was roughly the same age… however, it involved a lowly '87 Pontiac Bonneville. A teal, '87 Pontiac Bonneville. Alas, you may have been too young to remember that beautiful piece of machinery.

  • KAS

    Wow, I'm losing it with laughter. Not only are these outrageous, but my own very good friend has done many many similar things (including missing a major turn on the way to the airport and making a 5-minute trip a 20-minute one, Tim Bratley). I'm forwarding this post to her.

    • Beth

      I have so done that same thing. Makes you feel really smart. :P

  • David Robertson

    1) Tripp once rented an unnecessarily huge truck for us to move. At the toll plaza on 400, he didn't have enough money because of all the axles, and got a ticket.

    2) For a video shoot, Tripp loaded a long dolly track in through the back of his pathfinder, which ended up breaking his windshield.

    3) He had taken my nice headphones, which I warned him about, and left them in his motorcycle. When the motorcycle was stolen, he had to buy me new ones.

    4) The shifter in his pathfinder was messed up, and he had to keep a big screwdriver wedged in it.

    5) He double parks a lot, but doesn't notice.

    6) He once had a warrant out for his arrest because he forgot to pay a speeding ticket from another state.

  • Evan Chasteen

    haha I have been waiting for this blog since you told us about it in production meeting.

  • dalycho

    i once left my car running the duration of a school day, twice in the same week. and the third time i did it, the shop class came out to my car to try to break into it for me.

    also one time we ran out of window washer fluid. it was a wet and muddy winters night. and all gas stations were out of window washer fluid. so we stole a saturated squeegee from one of the empty gas stations. and at 110ish km/hr my friend would lean out the passenger side winder and squeegee the wind-shield when it got dirty. (which was every 15 minutes for 2 hours)

  • aaron keyes

    David… I may have been responsible for the whole “screwdriver special” transmission thing.

    And for my own ineptitude in full disclosure…I totalled the Driver’s Ed car when I was 15

  • matty

    Let me add a little to the motorcycle part…
    When Tripp was my roommate, I asked him to go with me to the motorcycle store so I could buy a bike and have Tripp drive my truck home. While we were there, somehow I convinced Tripp he needed one too and that he could have his own for a mere $73/month. An hour later I was driving HIS bike home (I didn't get one) because he had no idea how to ride one. Then he wrecked it. Then it was stolen.

  • http://lannydonoho.com lanny

    A woman in our church did a fascinating thing. Her husband had gotten up early to fix a shingle on the roof. It was on the back side of the very slanted roof so he needed an anchor to keep him from falling. He tied a rope to his truck and then to his waist so he could get on the far side of the roof without falling. His wife, not knowing the rope was tied to the truck or that her husband was tied to the rope…had to go to the store…in the truck. it was seriously about a block and a half before she realized she had pulled her husband off the roof and was dragging him behind. True story. he is ok now.
    Lanny
    top that one!

  • Joanna

    After a long and tiring day we headed back to the HUGEmongus parking structure at Disneyland. Right in front of us was a group of giggly college/HS girls who had just discovered that they left their car running….THE WHOLE DAY.

  • Andrew

    tyler…..i think this is the funniest blog i've read of yours…..my wife and I were hysterically laughing the entire blog (and comments), i'm definitely facebook linking this blog for others……

  • http://davepettengill.blogspot.com/ Dave Pettengill

    In high school my friend were coming home from working on a Christmas tree farm and he decides to totally "tag" me where no guy wants to get hit. So of course I take my eyes off the road to pound him as my 1983 Pontiac Bonneville Station Wagon with chipped wood paneling on the side (oh yes definitely a chick magnet car) veers off the road to which I forcefully yank it back onto the road as dust is flying through the window (no ac of course) and we do a 540 in the middle of the road. Thankfully no cars were coming so we pull of to the side to apologize and agree that the car is a "no tag" zone. We pull back onto the road and start driving when we notice the car is pulling to the right and we hear a "flub flub flub" sound. Sure enough the car has a flat tire so we go to get the jack and we notice that the jack looks like it belongs to a geo metro not my station wagon that was comparable to the size of a tank. We use the jack to lift the car and sure enough the car bends the jack in half! So after bending it back in place the tire was changed about 45 minutes later and we didn't tell either of our parents for about 4 years. Well that is one of my crazy car stories but since it is a long story I will leave it at that. Tyler and Tripp you guys are hilarious!! I greatly enjoy your blogs and always enjoy seeing you guys at Catalyst.

  • Geometry Fletch

    One time Tripp and I were driving to CA for a Seminar. As we were leaving Kansas and headed into Colorado, I let Tripp drive so I could get some much needed shut eye. Tripp preceeded to take the ramp to Kansas City NOT Denver. After about a two hour nap I awoke to say "I thought the Rocky Mountains would be a whole lot rockier." It was then Tripp realized two things, one: That John Denver was full of it, and that he had driven two hours in the OPPOSITE direction.

  • http://taftastic.wordpress.com Lee Taft

    Fact. One of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life, and not sure how Tyler left that off this list.

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  • rebeccannb

    Those stories are hilarious!

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