A couple recently went to buy a brand-new Toyota and somehow ended up stuck on the dealership lot after it closed. Naturally, everyone knows this because they shared a video of the bizarre scene on TikTok.
In the video shared by TikToker @_ana_alcala, it is obviously nighttime, and the exit gate is closed, leaving them and their two vehicles with no way to drive off the car dealer’s lot.
“Why do the most random things ALWAYS happen to me?” she asked in the caption of the video, which she said in the comments happened in Victorville, California.
“We’re locked in,” she can be heard saying to the camera as she shows the locked gate in front of her vehicle. Then as she pans back, showing a second vehicle, presumably the one that they had just purchased from the Toyota dealer, she explains the situation.
“My husband got a car, and they didn’t realize we were still in the parking lot, I guess,” she said. “And they locked us in.”
The strange situation led to a lot of jokes and similar stories
The couple wasn’t entirely confined to the dealership lot, of course. Naturally, they could walk out of the dealership lot and head home. All they would need to do was leave their vehicles at the dealership for the night. However, once they did get home, they would have no cars, and they might be out the cost of an Uber unless someone they knew came to get them.
There have actually been situations in the past where a customer literally got locked inside a business when it closed. So, it could have been much worse. Then again, being without two cars until morning certainly couldn’t have been convenient.
Thankfully, the woman said in the comments that she “dialed a random number” that she “found online and they sent someone” to unlock the gate.
Someone in the comments on the TikTok video said they too got locked in a car dealership lot on a Friday night and had to call their sales guy to come free them. Another person also said the same thing happened to them in 2002.
“You can’t just get a car; you have to pay for it,” another viewer joked.
“Shud of bought a camper,” someone else suggested with a laugh.
“Go back and buy an extended warranty to get out,” read another comical comment.
“I bought a car late last time,” another viewer commented. “I told them ‘don’t lock me in, I’ll pull outside the gate before I start messing with the car features.’ I mean, the staff are tired and probably just wants to go home.”