Worst and stupidest moment of my entire life with cars:

1985 - Driving from Yorktown VA to Lexington Park MD, at night with my new wife and baby daughter. As we cross the Potomac River bridge into MD, the sun goes down and my 68 Camaro alternator goes O-U-T out!

We are an hour away from our destination, but the car starts to die and the headlights go black after 15-20 minutes. We stop along that lonely back-road towards St Marys City, get a gas station to quick-charge the battery, and find a drug store open. I buy two large flashlights (plenty of them in stores due to crabbing at night there), and I force my wife to hang out her window and I hang out mine (maybe 40 degrees out that night) with these two flashlights as we drive all the way to Lexington Park at night on that backroad, with no headlights!!!

God was watching over my idiotic and senseless desire to complete the trip that night, and we only passed 2-3 oncoming cars the final 30 minute drive. It was the most stupid thing I've ever done in my life. My wife still brings it up every chance she gets. Just ask her!