She called me because she couldn’t get her car started after work. We had to get it towed out of the underground parking which is quite a pain in the ass apparently.
I spent a couple hours troubleshooting the issue (smoky exhaust, barely started, ran like shit) and I burned out the starter in the process and had to put a new one in. Starters in these little 3.7L engines are pretty pathetic.
At some point in all this she mentioned she had filled up before driving to work, so I figured out how to jumper the fuel pump and pumped out this piss-colored junk. Feels oily like diesel, doesn’t burn explosively like you’d expect with straight gas.
Fresh fuel and some Seafoam snake oil to maybe clean injectors. Since I didn’t drop the tank to clean it perfectly, she’s going to put small amounts in for a few fills and burn it off completely between fills because the solution to pollution is dilution.
Her receipt showed she uses the gas pump, not the diesel, so I’m wondering how many people got to deal with this bullshit since I’m guessing the station got an entire compartment contaminated. Haven’t bothered to talk to the company, since I did the work myself and they certainly aren’t going to reimburse me for my time.
Ah well, it’s an excuse to do a pile of other maintenance I’d planned anyway and had parts for.
Wife is happy she isn’t buying a new car. Happy wife, happy life.
Man that sucks.
There was a tiktok prank where the wife calls the husband with this exact complaint and says it happened after filling up a new gas station that had yellow pumps. Then they record the husband’s realization the wife means diesel in the gas. 😥
My wife called me from work and gave the spiel about being stranded, and we got to the yellow pump part. And in my head I’m thinking aww crap. But I said no problem, go to the nearest store and grab a coffee/snack, I’ll get a tow truck to come.
After a while she said LOL, just kidding. And she asked why I was so calm about it. And so I explained that she has done quite a few things to/with the car that I can’t waste energy on being frustrated and instead just deal with the logistics of these things.
She said she wasn’t sure if that was a good or bad thing…means its happened too much. LOL
Your wife played a TikTok prank on you? Personally I would be far more upset about that than the car.
one is a joke you don’t like, the other is hundreds of dollars or more
Actually pumping the wrong fuel into a car by accident is a mistake. “My Corolla takes regular and I hit the regular button without thinking” or “it looked like a normal gas pump. I didn’t know the handles were color coded.” That’s called being human.
Calling you at work with a fake problem intended to piss you off for fun isn’t good person behavior. “haha tiktok funny im gunna hurt MY spouse like that and put it on the internet” With friends like that, who needs enemies?
A lighthearted prank which is revealed before any negative consequences occur is harmless, unless it’s understood a joke like that is unwelcome, which is how I’m interpreting you or OP feels. Humans make jokes at others’ expense sometimes, and sometimes, it’s ok.
I don’t see interrupting your spouse at work, with the intention of telling them a lie, intended to raise an anger or stress response, for the purposes of posting their reaction on the internet for clicks, in any way “lighthearted.” Walking around the corner, phone in hand, asking “Hey babe, why’s six afraid of seven?” is lighthearted. If you can’t tell the difference, stay single. Only Satan wants you.
Totally understandable if that isn’t your vibe and you communicated this already. Otherwise it’s really truly innocuous. Depends on the person. Happily married btw ♥️
Only one my wife did was the one where you throw your husband onto the bed without warning like apparently these tiktok girls have partners throw them onto the bed to initiate intercourse and uh…well it may or may not have awoken something in me. Apparently that’s not the reaction it’s supposed to illicit based on the tiktoks she’d seen
What’s the reaction supposed to be? I don’t think I’ve ever had a partner who would be upset by being thrown into bed for spur-of-the-moment sexy times.
As if pranks from other sources are merited any higher? No one got hurt and while I can’t say I particularly recommend trying this, the partner’s reaction might be a major red flag as to how they’re going to react sometime else with a real, more serious issue.
See, I like pranks where the “victim” laughs too.
Give you an example, Apollo astronaut Wally Schirra was a bit of a practical jokester, he once delivered a urine sample to his flight nurse in a 1 gallon jar.
Going in for knee surgery, writing “This knee” on the correct knee and “Not this knee” on the other knee and both elbows, that’s a prank."