Mr. K gassed up the lawn mower a couple weeks ago. Nice of him, huh? So I’ve been mowing along like a dutiful homeowner. I decided to mow before work today since there is a chance of thunderstorms later today and all weekend, and I didn’t want to look at ugly-ass long grass all weekend.
So I got about 7/8 of the way through my mowing and I ran out of gas. AND I CAN’T GET THE FUCKIN’ CAP OFF TO REFILL IT! AAAAARRRGGGHHH! He puts all caps on so motherin’ tight that only superheroes with jackhammers can get the fucking things off. Drives me insane!!!
So there my mower sits…in the yard with the mohawk…FUCK.
Very early in my driving career, I realized that all the knowledge about how to properly change a tire doesn’t mean shit if you can’t get off the stinkin’ lug nuts.
My heart goes out to you. My behemoth husband always closes jars/lids/caps as if they hold the secret to life.
I have the bad habit of closing lids for my GF way too tight, I dont notice except when she goes to drink my soda and cant open the cap. It really doesnt feel tight to me at all, but I always feel bad, especially when I got to drink her drink, and she glares at me when I screw the cap down for all time without even thinking of it.
Did you know you can tighten those caps so tight they come loose again?
Fry
There are plenty of tools to unscrew tight caps. I have a drawerful for things like pickle and jam jars.
If you use plyers on that gas cap and make it look all jagged and no longer new, then Mr. K will have a reminder every time he mows.
A monkey wrench like a crescent or like a pipe wrench? A crescent may if your gas cap is “nut-shaped” but, otherwise, not enough of a clenching grip mechanism. Pipe wrench would just fine. What might work too if you have them are channel locks. You can wrap a dry rag around the cap if you don’t wish it to scuff.
You watch, now Kal will get 'em off just fine with a crescent.
Tip the thing on it’s side, pour nearly-boiling water over it and twist as soon as possible. I’ve done it once or twice, after my (mechanic) father screwed it on too tight. I was a nerdy kid, so I used the methods at my disposal
Kal, apparently one of our neighbors thinks the best way for a woman to cut small sections of one’s yard is with a pair of scissors while you’re in your bathrobe. From what I can tell, a cat is suppossed to assist.
Everyone whose husband (like my BobPi for instance) insists on putting on lids too tight needs one of these. You can get the most tightly screwed lids off without marring them.
Of course, Bob’s equal and opposite complaint is that I never fasten anything, and thus the contents of whatever he’s grabbed that I’ve used last ends up all over the floor.
That, and you look silly jumping up and down on the lever trying to get them to move.
But as bad as it is when someone else does it, it’s worse than when you know that you were the last one to screw whatever on, and you did it to yourself.
I’m an aircraft mechanic for a “large domestic airline” (in other words, “outsource meat”).
But yeah, my cow-orkers tend to over-tighten things , like oil filter canisters.
Never mind that the maintenance manual specifies the proper torque, the mentality seems to be “Tighten that sucker down hard! Otherwise, it’s a smokin’ hole!”
