1641 - True story

This was perpetrated years ago at the phone company by a bunch of friends. I wish I was this creative.

This was in the 70's when the first gas crisis hit. One of their coworkers bought a fuel efficient car for the era. He bragged and bragged about how much gas he was going to save to the point of driving people nuts.

So the day came that he showed up in his new car. And the plan was hatched. My friends started bringing a gallon of gas with them to work. During the day someone would go out and put the gallon of gas in this guys new car.

This went on for weeks. The guy with the new car was in disbelief at the mileage he was getting. All the guys at the office would just go wow, are you sure? He would say 'I haven't put any gas in it since I bought it and I still have half a tank'. The guys would just go 'wow, you really got a good car there'.

After 3 or 4 weeks he finally had to fill the tank on his new super high mileage car. He was ecstatic about how far his first tank of gas got him. Well it was all about to end.

Not only did they boys stop putting extra gas in his car, they started siphoning a little out every day. By the end of the next week the tank was near empty and the mileage man was beside himself. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!!! Off to the dealer he went to find out 'what was wrong!'

He tried explaining what happened and the dealer just thought he was nuts. He quit bragging about his new car as he tried to figure out what happened. I don't think they ever did tell him about the prank. They just let him stew about it. And they didn't have to listen to him talk about his fantastic car anymore.