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Input: Text: tifu by blowing my car's engine up. about 5 or so years ago i was dating a guy who lived 35 miles away from me in the next city over. we'd been together for nearly 4 years, and in that entire time he had come to my town twice.


every time i ever saw him, pretty much every day, i always drove down there since he didn't have a car. my vehicle at the time was what i lovingly referred to as my 1994 ford taurus pos edition, that would be a piece of shit for those of you unfamiliar with that particular taurus model.


it had quite a few problems with it, but where i had been running it so hard the last couple years it had developed a pretty substantial hole in the plastic radiator hose. i mean this sucker was a good half inch in diameter, but i knew more than enough about cars to keep the ole pos going every day.


i always carried a ton of water with me to pour into my coolant tank since that was leaking too. every time my engine would start to overheat i would pull over, refill coolant tank with water, and continue on my way. for those of you who are car lovers, i apologize for the brutal torment you must be enduring reading this.


i continued doing this for a good 2 years without any problems besides the obvious. one night my car had been really acting up and i needed to just let it sit overnight and in all honesty take it to a shop the next day. that did not happen.


the boyfriend, now ex, and i had been having some relationship issues after 3 really good years and we'd recently had a pretty nasty fight that left me tore up on the inside. he called me that night and apologized, begging me to come stay the night with him.


i told him i didn't think my car could do it and as badly as i wanted to i really just shouldn't. he begged, and pleaded, and said he'd make the trip worth my time so of course i caved and told him i'd be right there.


the warning signs on the way up were pretty much a giant flashing glaring sign telling me to stop and go home immediately. not only did my car overheat, but it had already stalled out and done so not once, or even twice, but three times before i was even halfway to his place.


i ended up using all the extra water i had and somehow managed to make it to my destination. of course i was expecting things to be all hunky dory since he rarely apologized for anything, and to be rewarded gratuitously for my efforts. this was not the case.


somehow, while discussing how silly our earlier fight was, we ended up having the exact same fight all over again. fairly certain it was because his apology was more of a "i'm so sorry you can't see why i'm always right and you're wrong" kind of passive aggressive placation. i of course, am not one to be placated or be made to look like an idiot.


we didn't even speak the rest of the night, and i left as soon as the sun came up. i couldn't get away from him fast enough. i was angry and just wanted to be home, so i didn't even bother to take water with me. to this day i have no idea how it made it to nearly just a few miles from my house running so hot before as usual, stalls locks up and i had to pull over.


i left it there overnight on an exit ramp to a well trafficked highway, and returned the next day with my best gal pal sammy. she brought extra water with her and was going to follow me home in case anything happened. so i filled the thing up with water and started on my merry way home.


i immediately knew something just was not right and that i should pull over, but home was just a few miles away so instead i kept on a drivin'! 


now i'm no expert, but apparently when you run your car so hot without coolant like i did the day before, this causes an essential part called a head gasket to crack inside your engine. for all of you not following, that pretty much means your car is completely fucked. i didn't even make it a mile down that highway.


my temperature gauge suddenly shot all the way past the hottest point and my car totally locked up. the inside of my car immediately began to fill up with putrid white smoke which was also bellowing like a great dragon from beneath my hood.


i pulled over and hopped out coughing my ass off while sammy was running towards my vehicle with water. it was quite obvious the bitch was on fire. i used a towel to open my hood, and flames shot up as soon as i did. i wish you could have heard sammy, the whole time she was saying nothing but "oh my jesus! dear lord god! goodness gracious!". absolutely hilarious.


she tried dumping water over it and that briefly cause the flames to jump higher before a combination of water and beating it with the towel put the fire out. my pos sat there smoking and smoldering, completely totalled and beyond repair. i was pissed. mostly at myself, and more so at my boyfriend. i blew up my engine so i could have a terrible night with him.


here's the shit cherry on top of the shit cake that just really kicked me in the groin. i tried to have my car towed for 6 days straight off that highway by the only towing company that covered that area. every day they told me they would get to it if they could. the 7th day i received a call from my local police department telling me that my vehicle had violated the city's 72 hour ordinance laws about leaving your car along a public highway.


turns out on the 3rd day of my attempting to get it towed, that very same company i had called ended up responding to the police request to tow my vehicle. i was not notified, and the bastards clearly knew i was the owner seeing as how i told them every time i called exactly where my car was located. it had been sitting in their storage yard for four days now!


when i went to retrieve it, since every day there they charge you for the damn thing just sitting there, i was told it would be $225 to get it out. i did not have that kinda money at the time. making a long and annoying day short, i ended up selling it to a scrap metal guy who towed it away for decommission and gave me $250. i literally blew my only mode of transportation up just to fight with my boyfriend and make $25 bucks off my car. it would be a good 4 years before i had another vehicle of my own.

TIFU by blowing up my car's engine