Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: obligatory "wasn't today but friday"

so for some time now my car had a coolant leak, and i just topped up the coolant every now and then.

few days ago i decided to actually fix it (just a gasket replace, couple of minutes work).

decided to top up the coolant just to be on the safe side, as i had dinner with friends which required half an hour drive.
after topping up, closed my hood and drove off. about 10-15 minutes into the drive i noticed that my heater was not heating up at all, and then i saw steam coming from my hood. thinking to myself "oh god, i didn't do that did i..".

 as it turned out, i did. forgot to put the radiator cap back on, so it all just poured out of the radiator.

luckily my dad has the same car but a model later, and the radiator caps are interchangable, so i called him. he used my mothers car to bring me his cap and some coolant, so i could atleast get to the restaurant.

dad arrived, very pissed (understandably), he told me that he would not tow me if it happened again. told him that would not have to happen, i put on his cap and drove off. 

within minutes, my car started to overheat, so i pulled into the shoulder. stupid me didn't check if the cap was on correctly, so one side was not on correctly, so the coolant was just spraying out of one side.

at this point i was already too late for the restaurant, and it was still a 20 minute drive, and i was in the middle of nowhere, no houses to ask for some water as temporary coolant.

to make matters worse, it was a few degrees above freezing, and as my car didn't have enough coolant to have a warm heater, i was freezing aswell.

so called my dad, he was (again, understandably) very pissed, and said i had to call the roadservice (the people who help and tow you).

i didn't want to do that as i did not have a membership, my parents do but apparently they go by licenseplate, not the name on the card.

luckily, a friend of mine (god bless her) offered to come help me, even though it was a one-way 40 minute drive for her.

to make matters even worse, when she arrived with some coolant, my car would not start, so she had to tow me somewhere where we could start my car, which she had never done before. she was very nervous, but we made it, and my car started.

in the end i got home at around 10 o'clock, while i should have been at the restaurant at 7. no food, very cold.

 

lesson of the day: check your damn radiator cap.

TIFU by topping up my cars coolant.