WTF is up with the Infiniti in neutral / no parking brake???
My last car was a manual Accord. Great car. One time I unintentionally shifted without the clutch-- I was slowing down for traffic (on this hill:
), and heard a loud BANG as I pushed on the clutch to shift from 3rd to 2nd. Clutch pedal instantly went mushy. I matched the engine RPM to 2nd gear, as I always did, and it felt slightly different as I pulled the stick into 2nd gear. The light was red I figured I'd better pull off the street to see what was wrong with the clutch pedal. Car wasn't downshifting into 1st, either.
The Accord's clutch master cylinder was fastened to the firewall with two studs. One of the studs had snapped, so when I pushed on the clutch, the master cylinder just bent out of the way, didn't actually push any fluid. Got a tow to my mechanic and left the car there with a note.
@Gibson99, it didn't even occur to me to just drive it, and have the car jerk itself to a start by cranking it while engaged in 1st! Also thinking about it, it was either New Year's Eve, or Christmas Eve, and I was happy that I was able to get a tow at all, and only had to wait half an hour for the tow truck. The major tow companies had multi-hour waits, but I kept calling the little guys, and found an o/o who was about to call it quits for the day, and I was on his way gome. Can't remember how I got home-- it must've been by bus, but I can't remember it at all. I think I was living in the suburbs then, too. It must've been a long bus ride-- no wonder I've blocked out the memory!