If ya are too drunk to read, let the kid fill your tank.

[Winger Ed.]

In other threads, we were talking about how important it is to fill your own fuel....<br /><br />That's not always true:<br /><br /><br />Years ago, back in the late 80's a friend of a friend of mine came into a big windfall of money. So, naturally he bought a 60', two story house boat, on what had to be a 20' beam for about 3/4ths of a million bucks, and had it put on a nearby lake.<br /><br /><br />This thing looked about the size of a shopping center. And it had a pair of Diesel engines that probably were meant to go in a freight train.<br /><br /><br />This boat is almost a week old. But since its so noisy with both engines, he just runs it on one.<br /><br /><br />He takes it out with a bunch of his buds, they all get really drunk, and decide to go get something from the dockside store, and while they're in there, he'll fill up one of the tanks that's getting low. <br /><br />The other tank was empty, but he figured he'd just fill the one since they weren't going to be out very long. <br /><br />They all leave with a bunch of munchies, plenty of beer, and 250 gallons of fuel in one tank that he wouldn't let the dock assistant help him with.<br /><br />A few minutes later, the one engine he had running quits. For whatever reason, he can't get the other one started, so they get towed a mile or 2 back to their dock by a couple of regular boats--- 16 footers or whatever.<br /><br />The next day, he calls the boat manufacturer, and throws a walleyed fit.<br /><br />They grab up their crew, tools, and a spare engine. They charter a plane, fly down here for a warranty engine change in the lake on this engine that must weigh 3,000 pounds.<br /><br />As the head mechanic is about to connect the fuel line to the new Diesel engine they'd dropped everything and flown in with,,,,,,,, he catches himself....<br /><br />"Hey buddy", "This is gasoline in this fuel supply line". He opened the tank filler cap, took a big snif,,,,,,,,,,<br /><br />"This isn't a warranty repair anymore. This is a $60,000 hot-shot repair job, because you filled it with gasoline. ........Here's the bill".<br /><br />The fella had a fit. "I ain't paying it"!<br /><br />The mechanic told him, "No problem. Copies of the paper work can be here in an hour... We'll sell the boat for whatever we can get real fast, take our $60,000 and give you the change". <br /><br /><br />Dude got out his checkbook.......

 

[Dunaruna]

Re: If ya are too drunk to read, let the kid fill your tank.

Some people don't look or don't care, I saw a guy on the weekend start to fill the septic on his houseboat with gasoline, luckily the attendant stopped him before he pulled the trigger. <br /><br />S@#t whould've hit the fan if he kept going.<br /><br />Aldo

 

[Capt Joe]

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Free Boat Fuel???<br />Several months ago I went to pay after putting $92 worth of diesel in the 4WD, only to be told by the cashier that I'd filled it with unleaded petrol!!!!.<br />Both hoses on a single pump with NO real indication of the other. We pushed the 4Wd around the side & drained the 120 litre tank into drums, via the drain hole. Yep, Fill can pass to mate who poured it into some cans we scrounged. <br />Pushed the 4WD back to the pump & put in $20 only, this time diesel. <br />Free Fuel?? - I didn't have to buy fuel for the 4 stroke mower or boat for several months!<br />I haven't been back to that fuel place since.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: If ya are too drunk to read, let the kid fill your tank.

Sounds extra lucky that the right words got spoken at the cashier. Two blocks down the road might have cost $$$$$$AU

 

[wajajaja]

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hey capt joe, sounds like you owe the station, a thanks not a boycott.<br /> i always maintain the the one thing nj and orygun do right is mandate attendants pump gas/fuel.

 

[TELMANMN]

Re: If ya are too drunk to read, let the kid fill your tank.

Who is boomyal?

 

[Winger Ed.]

Re: If ya are too drunk to read, let the kid fill your tank.

Originally posted by telmanmn:<br /> Who is boomyal?

He's another really nice guy that hangs out around here and contributes a fair amount to various discussions. Like most of us, he answers and opinionates on more questions than he asks.

 

[Capt Joe]

Re: If ya are too drunk to read, let the kid fill your tank.

Luckily I said I'd filled from the "Diesel pump" instead of just saying "No 1". If I'd said "No 1" she might have just commented "You mean No 2".<br />In that case I'd have been no wiser & certainly poorer.

 

[Twidget]

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My Dad did the same thing with his Diesel pickup. Dad got lucky when the attendant told him he had put gas in his truck. Strange part is, he went to the Semi island to get the fuel, since the car island didnt have it. It was an unmarked hose also. <br /><br />I was really shocked when the 'mechanic' siphoned the gas out and just let it hit the ground and run off. About 25 gallons worth.

 

[Winger Ed.]

Re: If ya are too drunk to read, let the kid fill your tank.

just let it hit the ground and run off. [/QB]

Wow. That place is probably labeled a 'Super Site' by the EPA now.<br /><br />I got a buddy who drives a Diesel pickup. If the pump is labeled or not,, He always gives the nozzel a quick sniff before he takes on a hundred or so gallons in the truck and his aux. tank.

 

[Twidget]

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Wow. That place is probably labeled a 'Super Site' by the EPA now

Probably not. It was in one of the little towns between Denison and Gainsville. I kept expecting to see the EPA or someone show up. The builders in my neighborhood were tagged by them because the water ran mud into the street.

 

[Capt Joe]

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Twidget, Many privately owned (remember those) service stations will just drain the petrol/diesel mix into the unleaded bulk tank. Doesn't effect the unleaded cars because of the diluted state. I have even heard of a 50/50 mix to get an unleaded vehicle the last couple of hundred kilometres out of a desert. Driver hadn't allowed enough for the extra drag of sand dunes.

 

[brownies]

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"Dry sunk".<br />Inboard owners, there is a time and a place to be sure that plug is installed.<br /><br />and a time for removing it.........sigh.

 

[Straightup]

Re: If ya are too drunk to read, let the kid fill your tank.

A guy I used to help do electrical work was telling me that this old customer of his switched from fuel oil to nat. gas furnace. He left the fill tube outside of the house tho' and sold the tank. Well, the regular fuel oil deliverer didn't get the message and came and gave him his regular supply - which went right in the basement . Guess there was quite a lake of fuel oil down there...