Seeing A Grown Man Cry
AdventureDad | July 25I saw a grown man cry this past weekend. Because of his car. Men are unlike women often (unhealthily) attached to their cars. I went through a similar period 15 years ago but quickly snapped out of it.
As I pulled into a German gas station there was a gorgeous Porsche 911 Turbo filling up gas. It started up fine but soon sputtered with blue smoke. The owner stepped out of the car, looked around for a minute to find some answers and then started crying. At first I thought he would kill his wife but it turned out she was completely innocent. But I swear she was trying hard not to laugh as she found the problem. The owner had stupidly filled out his hot performance car with DIESEL!
I think it’s true what women claim, men are idiots.
I thought that in Europe, all diesel pumps are made with a large diameter so that they could not fit into unleaded holes in a car - at least that’s how it is done in UK, thus it’s impossible to put in diesel in a petrol-powered car.
However the opposite isn’t true…since the unleaded pump have a small diameter, and the diesel hole is large…you can fill up with unleaded in a diesel-powered car leading to many funs on the road….(!)
Am surprised to see that Germany isn’t the same.
I’ve actually grabbed the diesel pump handle and removed it before realizing what I was doing.
But, I always figured maybe the whole thing was idiot-proof. Like maybe they made the pipe opening smaller for regular gas, so that goofballs couldn’t actually get the diesel pump into the gas tank opening.
Guess not huh?
Guys like that don’t deserve cars like that. Too funny.
I’ve always been puzzled by this phenomenon! Because I think of a car as a mere tool of transportation, and there are other men who share this view–this “automophilia” is almost certainly a learned behavior. Case in point: Cars are just a necessary evil to my dad, as they probably were to his dad. My dad’s a retired electrician, who works harder now than before his retirement. He’s always worked with things, much better than with people (which is completely opposite of me), but he maintains his car and truck because he has to–he does not enjoy it! And I’m the same way!
But alot of men (possibly most, in Western society) are as attracted to cars as to women! I even read an advice letter in “Playboy” once (it’s only good for the articles, the women are sickeningly underweight), in which a wife complained that her husband wouldn’t have sex with her, and that she had caught him having intercourse with the tailpipe of his car!
And speaking of women–so many of them are afflicted with the same car-fixation (though indirectly)! I drive a 1996 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight LS–women couldn’t care less. It would be interesting to see how many women approached me in just one week, if I drove a Ferrari! But those women wouldn’t be worth my time, anyway.
A car is just a tool, used for transportation. Only the driver of the car matters, because he/she is human–and alive!