Well said!

Yeah definitely, nowadays everyone wants to point the finger but those same people forget that admitting to mistakes only makes you a better, more knowledgeable person who will be respected more by the people who surround you.

@@dakotawright6978 Not my mistake (made plenty too in a former life) . Was once the manager of a tiny gas-station. It belonged to a guy who owned two Stations. One day the supply-truck, came to fill up the underground tanks. It was a slow day as always, the road had been diverted and this gas-station only got 20% if at all of the former traffic. So while I was inside, the guy did his job, then he came in, cussing his head off. He dumped about 2000 liters of fuel in the wrong tank. The truck was equipped with a holding-tank for mistakes like that, but the hose to pump out the wrong fuel was not on the truck. So we decided to "pump out" 2000 Liters of fuel through the car-filling hose, of course the money-counter running. 2 weeks later I almost lost my job because according to the records I sold 2000 Liter of fuel, but kept the money. The wife of my boss was also the bookkeeper for the business and she got in touch with the driver of the company who fueled the wrong tank. If he had denied that it happened who knows what grief that could have caused me...

Agreed, standard response these days is to claim anything you don’t like or want to hide as “False News” and carry on regardless.

I have always admitted my screw-ups. It is the easiest way to handle it. I mean, what are they going to do fire me? If they did fire me, I was looking for a job when I found this one. Never did get fired though. LOL One time I screwed up something, and I told the boss what I had done. He asked me if I knew what I did wrong, and I said yes. He then said, "well, don't ever do that again." I don't even remember what I did wrong, I just remembered what he said though. The person that never messes up, never does anything.

Yea, that was an "aw crap" moment. Sort of like going 45 minutes to the lumber yard to buy one 10' 2x12, taking it 45 minutes home, then cutting the wrong line making the board too short. Yep! Been there, done that.

Cell phones are a true distraction...fueling, driving, etc. I'm sure someone has done the math on how they increase the odds of impact on a task at hand while using one.

I thought the diesel nozzle was larger so that you couldn't do that? Although I totally understand the automatic pilot things where you're in the middle of a thing and you get distracted right at the critical moment and make a mistake that you normally wouldn't make because you don't make those kinds of mistake.

@@RowanHawkins I think that most of Rory's fuel tanks are after market, or cannibalized from other rigs To be honest, I don't remember the size difference. I will look the next time I fill up my Diesel pickup.

@@RowanHawkins 'Unleaded fuel necks' were not incorporated into heavy pickups (3/4Ton & 1Ton) until the late '70s...a number of years after cars. When that tow truck was built it had a fully open fuel neck.

I don't know... even gods mess up sometimes lol

Not God.

@@larrybe2900 Yes, it was written correctly. As a lower-case god instead of an upper-case one.

Great expression

that was great

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Lol that's funny

I heard a similar story from a Love's truck stop attendant. Love's has DEF pumps on their islands. A trucker filled his entire diesel tank with DEF, stalled his rig and tied up multiple pumps for half a day.

@@carlward I believe that he put DEF in and messed his rig up but Loves wouldnt let it sit there very long, they would have towed it out of the pump island pretty quick. They dont let pumps get blocked for half a day from something so simple to tow out of the way.

@@warrenmichael918 Took that long to get a semi-sized tow truck to come out

@@carlward They pull broke down semi trucks out of the islands all the time with one of their little yellow service trucks. Oh well, who knows what the deal was with it i guess.

Actually you could simply trick the fuel pump to run and pump all of the tainted fuel out. Re-prime the system with fresh gas and you're back in action. The worst that could occur is gumming up of the catalytic converter. Modern stuff is different, but it's still just an internal combustion engine.....

Silent Driver: Oh so very true, and well said. It is also how we build character.

Right? He figured that out QUICK!

You better believe it. Putting gasoline into a diesel is waaaaaay worse.