[quietman1920]

Please don't feel badly about this. Things happen. If you weren't at fault, its just bad luck. And if you were, you know you'll never make the same mistake again, right? Please cheer up.

When I was a lad with a brand new license, my sister asked me to move her VW bug from the driveway to the street in front of our house(she had blocked somebody in). Happy at my good fortune, I rushed out to start the car. But nothing happened. Nothing until I heard family members screaming 'Get out of the car! Get out of the car!'. The engine behind me had burst into flames. I jumped out & my brother and I pushed the flaming mess away from the house. My brother also got the fire extiguisher & put the fire out.

My sister cornered me with a loud volley of 'what did you do to my car???' and was about to go in for the kill when my brother popped the rear hood and called us over to the still smoking engine.

"Why is this air hose disconnected from the engine?" he asked.

"The heater was on and I couldn't shut it off, so I took that off," she replied.

Just one problem: It was part of the engine's cooling system...