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Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:29 pm
by tut
Turned the ignition on yesterday on the Honda CR-V to lower a window and left it on. Went out later to walk the dogs and the battery was flat. Hooked up the charger, and though I do not remember I must have gone back out a couple of hours later and started it up and left it running.
Midday today Verian asked me why the car engine was running, which it had been for twenty hours. Hopefully it has not affected the engine as you could well do that if you were caught in one of these overnight Winter Motorway standstills, but it did use half a tank of diesel.
tut
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:31 pm
by flyingscot68
Lol. Nutter.
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:42 pm
by hendeg
You get my vote.
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:59 pm
by Jam_s160
Tut I'm stuck in a sh*t hotel in Belgium right now and your post has brightened up my sh*t day... Awesome
Waitress who is not pretty is wondering what feck I'm laughing at on my iPad
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:07 pm
by j2 lot
Brilliant, the stuff of legends
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:07 pm
by tut
Actually as nobody else has probably been stupid enough to do it, as we had just fuelled up, it could be useful to know that if you did run the engine for twenty hours to keep the heater running, you would still have half a tankful of fuel left in the average car.
tut
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:15 pm
by Jam_s160
I guess you are retired for a reason
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:23 pm
by j2 lot
tut wrote:Actually as nobody else has probably been stupid enough to do it, as we had just fuelled up, it could be useful to know that if you did run the engine for twenty hours to keep the heater running, you would still have half a tankful of fuel left in the average car.
tut
Valuable research , but the reality is that most of us would find the car had been driven off never to be seen again as soon as we left it
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:54 pm
by pete
Valuable research you're doing there...
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 11:26 pm
by tut
A silly way to waste £40 though......
tut
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:07 am
by Stu160
Stu
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:19 am
by Claws
You Sir, are a legend!
It won't have done the engine any harm providing that the rad fan and water pump are in good condition, just a very expensive battery charger/radio that nobody is listening to!
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:38 am
by Scottish Scrutineer
Well done Tut. Just think of how much fun you could have had with that £40 in the Elise...
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Renny
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:11 am
by tut
Verian is my Carer but reckon I need a new one. She went to the Supermarket yesterday in her slippers, forgot to put her shoes on. With that and the car she is not earning her keep, and is now complaining about carrying the coal buckets in and stacking the logs.
£68/week allowance from the Veterans Agency if there are any volunteers.
tut
Re: Dickhead of the year.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:29 am
by hendeg
£68/week allowance and never a dull moment!