Craziest thing you've done to "just get home"

[Earl Junior]

What's the craziest/most ingenious thing you've done to just get the truck home?

My girlfriend (now wife) and I were out, well let's say "in the country" and kind of lost track of time. Pretty soon I realize she's got to be home in like twenty minutes and we're twenty miles from her place. I push in the clutch pedal and it goes to the floor with very little resistance and doesn't engage the clutch. Find the flashlight, pop the hood... clutch pushrod bent like a boomerang.

Ok. I can fix this. Think about the truck, man, not her dad and his shiny new Smith & Wesson.

Pull the cotter pin. Yank the pushrod. Straighten it out as best as I can with my bare hands. Pop it back in place. Replace the cotter pin. Back in the truck. Clutch pedal down, pushrod bends again.

Back outside. Pull the cotter pin. Yank the rod. Straighten it out as best as I can with my bare hands. Remove the linkage adjustment swivel nut. SLIDE THE BOTTLE JACK HANDLE OVER THE ROD. Replace the adjuster nut. Pop the pushrod back in place. Drop the the cotter pin in the mud and gravel. Oh, crap.

Think. Think! THINK! Ah-ha! Take all the keys off my keyring, thread the ring through the hole in the end of the rod. Replace. Back in truck. Pedal goes down, clutch engages, truck goes vroom.

We didn't make it home by curfew, but we didn't have to walk home from make out point either.