Today, I let my brother borrow my car, as he had a job interview. I told him the tank was nearly empty and gave him $20 to put some petrol in it. Ten minutes later, he calls me, saying the car won't start. He filled it up with diesel. It's a petrol car. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, as usual, I work nights and sleep during the day. I found out that my brother uses my car and never puts gas in it when he called me for the first time to actually ask me if he could borrow my car, and also to lend him $20 to put gas in it. FML
Today, trying to do something nice for my brother, I filled up his truck's gas tank. I didn't realize until too late that it's a diesel. FML
Today, I took my partner’s car to fill with gas because mine was in the shop. Out of habit, I put diesel into the tank. We discovered it three hours later; the tow bill ate my weekly budget, the mechanic sighed through the repair estimate, and I spent the evening on hold with roadside help. FML
Today, I was at my grandfather's house and my car was low on gas. He said I could put some of his gas in my car. He accidentally gave me the wrong tank to pump it out of, and I put fuel in my car that he uses for his small plane. It never ran better until the engine exploded. FML
Today, my dad agreed to let me borrow the car to go rock climbing with my friends. He'd just filled it up with gas, which is how I realized halfway back home that one of my "friends" had siphoned well over half the gas straight out of the tank. FML
Today, I was out with my youngest cousin and we had to stop for gas. Since he just got his license, I asked if he wanted to pump the gas while I went into the station to get snacks and pay. He pumped my car full of diesel. FML
Today, I went to start my truck that I had parked in my driveway after a long haul. The fuel gauge indicated I had a full tank. I didn't fill up. My neighbours' son decided to fill the tank with water with a hose, 150 litres worth on top of diesel. His dad's response? "Kids eh, what ya gonna do?" FML
Today, I returned home from a 2-day trip. Before I left, I told my brother to move my car across the street when the street cleaner passes by. Turns out, he used all my gas and got so wasted he forgot to move my car. I got a big ticket that he said he'd pay for. He's unemployed and lives off me. FML
Today, my brother "borrowed" my car and keys without asking me. He came back 4 hours later, alone and pale faced. It took half an hour of questions, interrogation, and finally threats before he admitted that my car is sitting in a ditch a few miles away, probably totaled. FML
Today, my neighbor's son siphoned the fuel out of my lawn mower and put it in his car. What he didn't realize is that the fuel mixture I use in my lawn mower would ruin his car engine. His dad says it's my fault and actually insists I should pay his pissant son's repair bill. FML
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EmAnRap 2
I don think hes getting the job...
yankfan89 27
No tell the garage the truth and make the brother pay for it
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Comments (186)
fatgirllovesfml 0
Wtf who uses petrol??? What kind of cars use it....I'm confused??!!
Lanceeden 12
I'm sorry but you're really dumb. Petrol=gas. Most cars use it.
guckylynn 19
Welcome to the world where not everyone is from the United States.
Lanceeden 12
Sadly, it's assumed they are...
hemz_fml 13
It's gas you idiot
Cmdr_Shepard 17
As an American, I'm embarrassed by comments like 11's. "Gas" is just a nickname for the fuel, its real name is petroleum. Other countries thus call it "petrol" for short. Way to show your ignorance.
Rainbow_dumpster 28
Petrol is another word for "Gasoline". Gasoline is also Petroleum-derived and Op is in Australia who doesn't use the term, "Gasoline".
Feklfekl2222 32
It's idiotic, people from other countries understand when Americans say gas, so ot can't be too difficult for them to recognise that the word petrol means gas.
KiddNYC1O 22
Wow, just wow.
Kristoffer 35
Actually #42, petroleum is crude oil. Petrol (gasoline) is a refined petroleum product, as is diesel, motor oil, and many other things such as plastics.
iamyourgod 3
Stop thumbing up 42. His comment is as stupid as 11's. Gas slang for gasoline, which is the correct term. Gasoline also can be called petrol, which is not short for petroleum. Gasoline or petrol is refined from petroleum, but so are many other things.
LaVitaEstetica 0
I'm an American, and even I knew gas was petroleum. In the words of Eddie Izzard, "Do you even know there are other countries?"
cfox1986 0
I live in the united states and over here we say "gas" not petrol so maybe people should chill out. Not everyone talks the same. The person ain't a dumbass for not knowing y'all call it "petrol".
MeganCello 8
You're a sheltered asshole. -.-
ColtsDoug18 0
Probably would have done the same thing... can't blame the kid, sounds the same to me
benderbot19 0
You just said "I'm a moron" to the Internet.
MrsPegg 45
Hopefully you have great insurance and an awesome warranty because that is going to be a huge ordeal!! My dad went to pick up his diesel from the shop and the mechanic actually put regular in it!! Took them 6 days to clean the engine & fuel lines! So sorry OP!
ikickgingers 15
Just siphon the gas tank. You might have to get it flushed... At least when I let my friend use my car it was a quick fix. Annoying as shht... Inconvenient.... But quick. I drive a Nissan not a diesel truck though...
bo1440 3
Lol, I have 2 bumper stickers on my truck, 1st reads; Pissin-on-a Nissan, the other says, Eating Chevys Shittin fords. Dodge rules. ;p Oh and Op you should smack your brother cause I'm guessing hes illiterate to because every vehicle I've had, the little gas door or the gas cap says to use only a certain type of fuel.
ikickgingers 15
94 - "I'm a doctor, not a mechanic"... And the apr was next to nothing. I don't have a dick... My car needs to be pretty and efficient... I don't care if it has balls of fire or goes blah blah to blah blah in 15 flat.
bo1440 3
127 I know quite a bit about cars including foreign ones, as to why I didn't mention them, cause they all suck.
FYLDeep 26
In reality petrol is simply short for petroleum which gasoline and diesel are both derived from. I know it's a regional thing but it really isn't very specific. Either way, if you live in an area where the word petrol is used, you damn well better know what it means.
Savra_fml 17
There is no excuse for ******* up like that in Australia! All Aussies know what petrol is. They could potentially mix unleaded with super, but either of them with diesel.....have to be talented to do that.
False_Stupidity 42
Moreover, in nearly every new or even remotely new car I've come across, the hole where you stick the nozzle is specially made a certain size and the nozzle on diesel pumps is larger so that it won't fit the hole. Therefore your brother had to have tried to force the nozzle in or something.
unquale 1
The nice thing about the US. The nozzle for diesel is larger then the one for gas, so you can't accidentally put diesel in a gas vehicle.
jellyD 1
You would think that, but I work in the field, and we get a few hundred wing nuts who do this a year! Just in my eastern area.
Plywoodman 3
The nice thing is that it's color coded and a different handle type. They have the exact same size nozzle. At least in all of southern Cali where I've been filling diesel and gas the last 11 years that I've been driving for...
ladyluck7 6
Actually at the station I work the handle has 2 sizes. Try fitting the big one in a vw bug... Doesn't work that way
thiscrazything 1
Green is usually diesel, but some stations switch it up, to keep you on your toes. The nozzle size for diesel can be large ( for trucks) or small for cars. People just need to pay attention.
ladyluck7 6
It's yellow here
Feklfekl2222 32
I wonder who's picking up the cost to drain the tank and fix it
japtch 15
And drain the tubes and clean out the motor.
happy_dino 6
What an idiot. Make him pay you the $20 back and slap him upside the head.. And never let him drive your car again!
japtch 15
What about OP's car? I don't think I'd be satisfied with just a slap on the wrist. I'd want some goddamn money.
boredfishing 0
The damage to the car will be way more significant than just 20 bucks
jsaxon1996 0
Why is nearly every comment down rated?
hatersgunnahat 0
I was just thinking that XD
Kiksters 0
Hope you all know that he just ruined your engine!!! Sorry
japtch 15
It can be fixed. Probably expensive though.
cj7jeep 1
39. Im a mechanic. It didn't ruin the engine. And it will still run (like shit) on diesel once the engine is warmed up. It won't be too tough to flush out the lines either
FYLDeep 26
Is that an achievable thing to heat the engine up enough to run the diesel through the lines, or would it be better to flush everything and start fresh? I believe diesel engines run at much higher compression ratios so you would somehow have to simulate that just to get it to start (At least in my understanding). I'm not saying that it can't be done though. I'm no mechanic.
cj7jeep 1
138. Yeah it would probably be hot enough to run on diesel just from the drive to the station...diesel is a high compression fuel, so the petroleum engine couldn't burn it properly...but since diesel is still flammable, (it burns very slowly if lit on fire..a lot like carosen) the heat from the cylinders will be able to burn it enough to power the car...it just wouldn't run very well at all, and would emit a lot of black smoke. Even though it would be smarter to just flush it out, it would still work till you burned all the diesel out naturally..either way..fyl op...your brothers not too smart
FYLDeep 26
I wasn't thinking that way. I was assuming that you would be draining the tank, but not clearing out the lines or the engine. I wouldn't think it would be a good idea to try to burn an entire tanks worth of diesel fuel.
cj7jeep 1
Lol it really isn't too great of an idea...I was just clearing up the fact that it will work :P
Okayitwasme 0
As far as I know, you can't put regular gas in a diesel. That would F it up. But you can put diesel in a gas car. It will smoke more, run like shit. But it will run! And it shouldn't damage the car. How I know? Been there done that!