Happened to me, too, very very recently. Same story: green handle, not thinking, two miles later stuttering and then into a KFC parking lot in a VERY VERY bad area of Los Angeles. Finally, gave away about 11 Gallons to a poor fellow into his Toyota car, while the family ate greasy chicken handed through a vault window.
The rest? poured it with a hose into the botanical decors orf KFC while we watched a MURDER investigation closeby
Filled in a few gallons of Diesel and the story is closed. See picture enclosed

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"Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss":

1979 300D 234.000 Miles "Brownie"
daily driver,
1979 6.9 Sundays to the Tavern
and car shows "Big Brownie"

You don't want to hear what I have to say about this. Suffice it to say that you should probably have paid a huge fine and been looking out from behind bars for a while.

"You're not so crazy. I always run my finger across the tip of the nozzle,"

That does not seem necessary the places I get Diesel... for some reason they all seem to be neglected or abused more than the gas pumps... there is always plenty of diesel all over the nozzle and handle and then my hand.... perhaps they are using the wrong type oring on the swivel or more truck drivers are using it and rougher on it... anyway, I don't seem to be able to get diesel without me smelling of diesel when I get back into the car.....

Same here. I think it's because the diesel fuel does not evaporate like gasoline.

You can always smell an oil boiler mechanic

Lukejt

I always keep gloves in the trunk and wear them for fueling. I even try to park so that I don't have to walk in the oilslick around the diesel pump. More reasons I like WVO.

tough break in the area you were in. Looks like your feeding those plants across that brick wall their dinner.

Peter, I guess had my father not taught me about those things when I was younger, i'd have probably just tried to start it and go.

I wonder what we would have done had we not had a father,grandfather or unlce to have taught us things like that when we were young? How would we have responded today. Most young kids, just like to jump in start it up and go, not knowing if they need to add a qt of oil, brake fluid, power steering fluid etc.

You would have done as I have done. Learned it a little bit at a time, on your own.

If my father checked the oil on his vehicles, he was doing well. He never owned a wrench in his life. A set of screwdrivers and a pair of pliers was all he ever had for tools. Never had the motivation, ambition, or desire to to anything with his hands. Wasn't an intellectual either. Simply worked retail for a living wage all his life. Slept the day away on Sunday, his only day off.

He still asks me how I have managed to gain all the knowledge about vehicles and home repair and maintenance.

Try growing up with that.

Yeah, your probably right. I grew up in the country where the way of life was repairing things on your own. Although, my family had about the only service station and garage in town. I was around it all the time. Now, I live in the city and rarely am exposed to shops and repairing things, unless I make a visit back to my Dad's.