A stupid thing I've done: Drove without my headlights on at Night

Did too many stupid things in my life l could not write them all. Driving without headlights is very common in Egypt,when l first saw our bus driver driving without headlights on the main road,l wanted to scream from fear.

When I first got my license I did that once. I went two blocks before I finally was like, oh! I didn't turn my lights on.

How did you get away with that all night? Talk about lucky. I think you need more observant friends. LOL I haven't been out and about in quite a while so haven't done anything to speak of.

It's a common mistake made by people who are unfamiliar with the car and also that the surrounding lights may be bright enough for them not to notice.

Nooooo lol! i think there was a time I forgot to lock my car. That happened about 8 years ago with my old Sentra car lol.

I've seen several peole do this. I tend to flash my headlights at them, but they tend not to notice. The most bone-headed thing I've done was let a hitchiker drive when I was exhausted (many years ago, when people still picked up hitch-hikers). We wound up in a ditch somewhere in Wyoming (in the snow). I managed to drive us out.

Not that I'm saying you'd do this at all, but that is like the #1 way to get pulled over for DUI. Just an interesting tidbit.

Hahaha! I've done that before. We had a friend over to play games one night. It got late. I mean, really late. So I told her I'd drive her home. We got about halfway to her house when I was pulled over by the police. Problem? My headlights were out. In my case, I had forgotten that my husband had been working on the van and had disabled some part. So while I had turned the lights on, they weren't actually working. And the lights from the grocery stores, etc. were enough to keep me from realizing I didn't have them on. Okay. The story gets better: The officer, a woman, tells us it would be better if we turned around and just went home. I apologized to my friend and told her she could sleep on the couch and I'd take her home in the morning. One block from my house, I was pulled over by a different officer. I about hit my head on the steering wheel in frustration. "Let me guess...my headlights are out?" I say. And then tell him that I was already pulled over, we were on our way home and that, in fact, my house was right there! I could point to our home. He called and checked in with the first officer that had stopped us, and then let us go. I'm guessing he watched us the whole way to the driveway!

I've done reckless things in the past and whenever I think about it, I just laugh.