The reason it works is.....

Your husband knows you're an idiot.

There's a trend going around where wives call their husbands and say they put in the "special gas" and now the car or truck won't run. They try to convince hubby that they put gas in a diesel or diesel in a gas engine and then hubby freaks out and the wife gets a good chuckle while he's trying to figure out how to come up with 10k to replace an engine.

Hilarious, right ?

The catch is, you may want to realize that your husband knows you are a complete moron and isn't really all that surprised that you did it.

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My Mother in Law died a year ago this month and she and my Wife were very close. When we moved back to Kentucky, she gave my wife an antique lamp from her Fenton collection. It's be just knee slapping hilarious if I called her one day and said " Honey, I was dusting the table and your lamp fell off and shattered "

That'd be a hoot wouldn't it ?

a reply to: DAVID64

I notice the pranking topic too here, it is a thing and is ironic in the way you describe.

Everything about is, is telling. Some may be proud to be so good liars they convince their spouse of something horrible and find it funny. Some may be keen for the embarassing of other. I see no good quality in it.

Sometime a prank is funny, yes, I do it too and I can enjoy a good prank on me. But many pranks I see today are vile. I know it is a topic with kids and these elf on the shelf that teach the children for making pranks in a time when the focus should be make other happy and not stress them out more. Instead turning on each other behind the back.

That's not a prank, it's a lie. Pranks require imagination, thought, preparation. I'm not a prank guy, but I've seen some I thought were funny. Flat out lying about something to get a reaction isn't clever or funny. And if it's a loved one, it's not only a bad idea, it's potentially dangerous.

Fool me once.

a reply to: DAVID64

I thought the latest car thing was taping Christmas lights all over a car? No only is it illeagle, it often has a strip and repainting for the vehicle to remove it.

Very expensive to get that finish back to what it was and to pay the ticket for the red and blue lights on a vehicle.

Incidentally, in the 90s, the owner of the place I worked did put diesel in his van. It was cheaper. Fortinutally it only ran for about 1/4 mile before we got it to drain and flush it. It ran ok after that.

I'm pretty sure the diesel nozzle doesn't even fit in the regular unleaded tank, as it is larger.. Kinda impossible to get it wrong. They fool-proofed it for you.