I parked at the gym today in a parking spot that overlooks a 20 foot vertical drop. I have a manual transmission so with my foot on the brake I engaged the parking brake but to my horror the truck kept rolling towards the edge of the cliff. I pulled hard on the parking brake lever while stomping the brake pedal but it did no good.

I was in the process of hurling my body out the driver door (while yelling “HOLY SHIT!” at the top of my voice) before the truck went off the cliff when I realized that both brakes were working perfectly- the car beside me was backing up.

During all of this the only conscious thought in my mind was “what a horrible place for both brake systems to simultaneously fail.”

But ultimately no harm was done and I shakily went in to run on the treadmill.