The diesel lesson

Today's roadschooling lesson was expensive but effective. After someone, I'm not supposed to say who, but it wasn't me, accidentally filled our truck with gas, we got to learn what happens when you put gas in a diesel engine. Hey, it's called life learning, not always-good-life learning. In case you haven't decided to try that yourself, you get towed to a shop, pay them to drain it, and Facebook it before your husband knows what you're doing.
Thanks to this Iowa station's deceptively green handled pump, we got this fabulous opportunity. At the service station, they said it happens there weekly. SO not cool. We should have caught it though, we're usually really careful. Fortunately Josh noticed before Allen started the engine. He said hey dad, why does the diesel say regular? Doh! We just wish he'd have caught it before we put $50 of gas in the tank! But at least it was before the whatever-bad-thing-that-would-happen happened in the engine.
So Allen talked to the manager (who had the tow truck on speed dial - bad sign!) and we unhitched and left the RV right there blocking the pumps, all day. And yes, that made it a little better.
As usual, it ended up a grand adventure. The kids LOVED riding in the tow truck. At the very-nice-homeschooling-family-owned shop, they had toys for their grandkids that ours enjoyed and were so sweet. They drove me to get lunch, Happy Meals so the kids LOVED that too! And they had a fun dog, so the kids agree, best day ever.
The truck is fine, we met some great people, and kids had a ball. Apart from the time and money, it wasn't a bad day!