Many (many) moons ago when I worked in a garage, a customer dropped off his Triumph Herald to investigate a gearbox problem. Foreman asked me to drive it into his bay. Got in the car, waggled the gearstick to confirmed it was in neutral, and turned the key. The car jumped backwards through the plate glass window of the showroom - and we're talking a full-height sliding door here!
By some miracle, the car was undamaged, and there was but a small scratch on the car in the showroom. After I'd recovered my senses, and the mess had been cleared up, the foreman said that at least I had rapidly diagnosed the problem - the connection between the gearstick and the gearbox had become, how shall we say, a bit worn! Oooops...
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