AS I EXPLAIN EARLIER TIGER IS A FINE FELLOW BUT HE HAS A GIFT OF STRETCHING THE TRUTH A LITTLE. ENOUGH SAID....
TIGER HAD BOUGHT A NEW CAR I BELIEVE IT WAS A FORD FAIRLANE WHEN THEY FIRST CAME OUT AND AS USUAL WHEN HE BOUGHT ANYTHING IT WAS ONE OF A KIND. AND HE BRAGGED ABOUT THE MILEAGE AND ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE.
ANOTHER FRIEND WHO WORKED WITH US HAD JUST PURCHASED A NEW CHEVY CORVIAR AND THE TWO OF THEM GOT TO BRAGGING ABOUT WHICH CAR GOT THE BEST MILEAGE.
I HAPPENED TO OVERHEAR THE CONVERSATION AND LATER TALKED TO FRED THE FELLOW WITH THE CORVAIR AND WE PLANNED TO PULL A TRICK ON TIGER. THE PLAN WENT THIS WAY. EACH WOULD GAS UP ON PAYDAY AT A STATION CLOSE TO WORK AND THEN DRIVE FOR A WEEK AND SEE WHO REALLY GOT THE BEST MILEAGE. FRED AND TIGER GASSED UP AND THE PLAN TOOK EFFECT. I HAD A THREE GALLON GAS CAN AND EACH DAY AFTER TIGER LEFT WORK IN HIS TRUCK I WOULD GO OUT AND ADD GAS TO HIS TANK. OF COURSE WE BOTH KNEW THAT HE WAS GOING TO GET GREAT MILEAGE.
WE HAD PLANNED THAT THE SECOND WEEK THEY WOULD BET MONEY ON WHICH CAR WAS THE BEST AND I WAS GOING TO TAKE GAS OUT OF TIGER'S CAR. WE WOULDN'T HAVE KEPT HIS MONEY WHEN HE LOST IT WAS ALL IN FUN...
THEY WENT THE FIRST WEEK AND EACH DAY I ADDED GAS TO TIGER'S CAR AND PAYDAY THE GASSED UP AND THE RESULTS FOR TIGER WERE FANTASTIC.
THAT EVENING THE PHONE RANG AND IT WAS TIGER. HE EXPLAINED THAT ME BEING HIS BEST FRIEND I WOULD GET THE NEWS FIRST. HE GOT AN UN-BELIEVABLE 46 MILES TO A GALLON AND NEXT WEEK HE WAS GOING TO BET FRED FIVE DOLLARS.
THAT BEST FRIEND THING GOT TO ME AND I WASN'T ABOUT TO EVEN THINK OF WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO NEXT WEEK. SO I CONFESSED THAT I HAD BEEN ADDING GAS TO HIS TANK EACH DAY AND THAT IT WAS JUST A JOKE AND I HOPED THAT HE WOULD UNDERSTAND.
HE CAME TO WORK THE NEXT DAY AND NOT TO BE OUT DONE HE ASKED ME WHAT KIND OF GAS I HAD PUT IN HIS TANK. I REPLIED THE SAME AS I USE IN MY CAR HI-TEST GAS, AT THE TIME I HAD A LARGE EIGHT CYLINDER ENGINE. TIGER SAID I THOUGHT SO, MY CAR ONLY TAKES REGULAR AND NOW I NEED A COMPLETE TUNE-UP AS YOU HAVE SCREWED UP MY ENGINE. OF COURSE I COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT STORY BUT I LISTENED AND AGREED WITH HIM AND EXPLAINED THAT I WAS SORRY THAT IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.