For reasons of breakdown/hill start etc.
- Yes
- No
- No, but I’d like to
- No, but i wouldn’t like to
- Yes, sort of
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Used to get roped into it a bit when I was younger, because a lot of breakdown cover is only available to breakdowns that happen a certain distance from your home (say half a mile). So if my dad couldn’t start the car, we’d have to push it that distance away from home in order to pretend the breakdown had happened there.
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Yeah. It’s not fun 
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Yes, was cycling home and this guy’s car had crapped out in the middle of the road. It was just round a corner and just before entrance to a dual carriageway, so a high likelihood of cars coming barreling round the corner into him. Me and two drivers who’d just pulled up behind him pushed the car onto the verge quicksmart.
Was quite heartening actually how everyone just jumped to it as soon as we clocked the danger. Also quite striking how easily a few people can push a big old car when necessary.
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yep. not just coz it had broken down either. sometimes its just fun if you need to move just like a foot forward to leave the engine off, put it in neutral, take the handbrake off and just push with your foot out the door. you feel like the worlds strongest man. also when we were teenage dickheads we used to take my mates car out in the middle of the night when we were hanging out at his house, but so his mam wouldnt wake up we’d just push the car out of the driveway so she wouldnt hear the ignition. when we got back we’d just switch the engine off at the end of the road and coast back to the house. teenagers are dickheads eh
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Yes, once.
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yeh - if the place allows (maybe a car park) did you ever used to push it backwards as it starts easier in reverse?
used to have an old mini that was constantly having stuff go wrong with it and requiring pushing off the road/up hills etc. Was quite fun.
But I know someone who has
Which makes me wonder if I could
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Yep, up a snowy and hilly road in the peaks. Also had to grit the road as well which wasn’t fun. A local came out to help and dented the car with how much he pushed down to help getting grip, made it back though.
Yep. Few occasions. For bump start purposes. Our trabant is prone to needing them from time to time. 
My first car, a Mini Metro, had a dodgy starter motor so ‘bump’ starts were regular.
Yeah when I participated in World’s Strongest Man a few years back
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thats where i recognise you from!
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My wife’s old Ford Ka broke down in the middle of nowhere while heading for Capel Garmon neolithic burial chamber. We’d pulled over to check the map and the bloody thing wouldn’t start again. In absolute desperation I suggested bump starting it despite my having only the vaguest idea of how to do it.
Anyway, I push it, she puts it in second gear and then when sufficient momentum has been gained I shout for clutch up. To both of our amazement it actually fucking works. I have never felt so fucking bloke.
To celebrate escaping this situation we (stupidly) decide to stop for a brew and a sandwich and inevitably upon our return the car won’t start. No worries, I think, we’ve done it once we’ll bloody do it again. Well, we did but on the first pushing attempt I slipped in a dogshit and headbutted the rear window leaving me with a black eye and nosebleed. I have never felt less bloke.
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No. My mum always told me it would roll back and likely kill me so was always too scared.
Slammed my shoulder against the TV’s car several times the other week before she realised she still had the handbrake on 
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Can’t remember really
I once stopped a van rolling down a hill when someone had left the handbrake off. Saw it starting to roll and so… well I wasn’t pushing it , but I was in a pushing stance to stop it moving.
Felt pretty tough. Bloke comes out of a coffee shop, gives me the thumbs up, jumps in his van and drives off, thought he might be a bit more embarrassed, didn’t give a shit!