Imagine this: you’re 16, sitting in the passenger seat of your second driving lesson, when your instructor suddenly slams the brakes, starts swearing, and then—without warning—begins chasing down a GMC Jimmy. That’s exactly what happened to one poor kid when a reckless driver cut them off in a 15-mph zone. Instead of cooling off, his instructor floored it and went after the guy like he was auditioning for Fast & Furious.

When a Redditor asked for the wildest stories to come out of drivers’ education driving sessions, one commenter weighed in with this wild story from his teenage years. And if you think the impromptu lesson in road rage was the end of it, just keep reading.

At this point, the teenager is just trying to survive. All he can do is grip the seat, hoping this will somehow end without either of them in jail. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t go well.

They catch up with the SUV in the parking lot of the student’s school. The instructor jumps out, starts beating on the GMC, and who should step out but the janitor—someone the student sees every day. Awkward doesn’t even begin to cover it. Naturally, the janitor throws some punches of his own, and suddenly, we’ve got a full-on brawl happening. Between two employees. Outside their workplace. In front of a student. You can’t make this stuff up.

And this poor 16-year-old? He’s sitting in the driver’s seat watching all this insanity unfold, thinking, “Is this really happening?” He admits he was big for 16. So eventually, he decides it’s his duty to get out to try and break it up, but in the chaos, no one put the car in park. So, while fists are flying, the car rolls itself into a dumpster. Yeah, you read that right.

Two beaten-up adults are sitting on the ground, the kid’s just standing there, and in stroll the principal and the cops. Handcuffs are involved, but luckily, no one ends up in real trouble. The student, however, couldn’t get a new instructor fast enough. And honestly, who could blame him?

At the end of it all, this poor kid walked away with one big takeaway: the road is no place for flying fists. Lesson learned—just not the one he signed up for.