Thu. Jul 24th, 2025

“When I saw him, it brought a smile to my face.”

Mechanic Tries To Fix A Car โ€” And Finds The Cutest Unexpected Passenger

Igor Stanchuk, an auto mechanic based in Tallahassee, Florida, has a special knack for diagnosing car problems โ€” often just by listening. But no amount of experience could have prepared him for what he found inside one particular vehicle.

A customer had come in complaining about strange sloshing sounds while driving. Stanchuk had a pretty good idea of what was going on.

โ€œShe originally came in after hearing sloshing sounds while she was driving,โ€ Stanchuk told The Dodo. โ€œWhen you run the A/C, it condenses inside the cabin and passes through a drain. After a while, the drain can get clogged and water starts leaking under the floorboard.โ€

He began investigating the suspected leak โ€” and thatโ€™s when he discovered the last thing he expected: a tiny frog had taken up residence inside the flooded car.

โ€œWhen I saw him, it brought a smile to my face. I couldnโ€™t stop laughing,โ€ he said. โ€œI love frogs.โ€

How the little amphibian managed to get inside remains a mystery. But one thing was certain โ€” the soggy car floor had become his own little swamp.

Of course, the frogโ€™s ride-share days had to come to an end.

โ€œI placed him out in the woods, then I drained the floorboard,โ€ Stanchuk said.

Problem solved โ€” for both the car and its surprise passenger.

โ€œNothing like that has happened before,โ€ he added. โ€œIt still baffles me how the frog actually got in the car.โ€

It may have been an unexpected workday detour, but for Stanchuk, it was a delightful one. And for one little frog, it was just another hop in the journey.

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