'An ice cold move': Mechanic treated poorly by driving instructor, gets petty revenge by disabling heat in his vehicle

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
May 13, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

Always be kind to your mechanics! This Redditor worked as a mechanic in the Air Force and was undergoing training to drive military vehicles. The training involved.an intensive 10-day course run by an unkind instructor, who seemed to actively make it his mission to make OP's life difficult. That is, until he needed OP's help.

 

One day, the instructor discovered a coolant leak in his vehicle and requested the help of the Redditor, who at this point had enough of this guy's attitude. That's when the petty revenge came in! The mechanic realized that he had the ability to fix the leak but at the same, he could also disable the heat in the vehicle. When he claimed that this had to be done in order to stop the leak, the rude instructor huffed and puffed and spent the rest of winter driving a freezing cold vehicle. 

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story! For more, check out these apartment tenants who got revenge against their landlords.

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    Hood - "Treat me like dirt? I hope you enjoy the cold."
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    Font - Treat me like dirt? I hope you enjoy the cold. I worked as a mechanic in the Air force for 9 years but it took until year 3 before I finally convinced command to send me to get licenses to drive the vehicles I had been working on (just military things!). The driving courses are a 10 day long Army run event so i ended up at an army base, mid winter, with a driving instructor that hated the Air force, taking every chance he could to smack talk me. A bit of fun rivalry is to be expected but
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    Font - First day on the course he singles me out saying "As you can see we have a chairforce lad here and he turns out to be a mechanic!" Sarcastically saying afterwards "make sure to be careful with your rigs so he won't have to fix them for you!". First 2 days days he rides my to look at small things he deemed 'critical', forcing me to crawl around in the mud and snow. I was supposed to be there to get my licenses and not be a mechanic.
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    Font - Jump to day 3 when I get a call on the radio asking me to have a look at the instructors vehicle. He says "Chairforce! Get yourself here I have a coolant leak in the cab. Let's see if they teach you anything other than how to drink coffee and stand around". No problem sergeant, on the way.
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    Font - Using the onboard tools I take a look at the vehicle. I notice a split heater core hose dripping into the vehicle. For reference the heater core turns hot coolant into heat for the cabin and it's snowing outside. Knowing full well I could shorten the hose and it would be fine, I chose to disable the heater core completely, telling him " Sorry SGT the heater is busted and I can't allow the coolant to leak so I had to disable it." He was absolutely fuming.
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    Font - He spent the next week driving around in his ice cold vehicle looking absolutely miserable, Taking every moment to complain about the cold and the Air force mechanic'. I just laughed from the comfort of my warm truck.
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    Font - dertwo 4 hr. ago Nice, perfectly diabolical. 4 82 3 Reply Share
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    Font - Specialist-Primary-5. 4 hr. ago Brilliant! Did you get your licenses? 54 Reply Share
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    Font - Iwantmynameback OP. 4 hr. ago The guy begrudgingly signed me off thankfully. 117 B Reply Share
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    Font - Rachel Silver +1. 4 hr. ago I was in the Navy, and I've given plenty of good-natured grief to people who were in the Air Force. But I've also met people who wanted to join the Navy and tried to talk them into joining the Air Force instead.
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    Font - OptimysticCynic. 3 hr. ago He sounds like a gem. An ice cold move considering defrost would also be non functional.
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    Font - SnooBunnies 7461 +2. 56 min. ago You were so thoughtful and kind to make sure he was safe from that leak. Better cold than liquids dripping into a vehicle.
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    Font - zandaril 42 min. ago I would have properly fixed it the last day claiming something along the lines of "I was thinking about this and I think I found a solution" just so he would wonder how long you knew you could provide heat to his vehicle!
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    Smile - Piddy3825 +2. 16 min. ago ah, petty revenge - best served cold...
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    Font - IndyAndyJones7 +3. 2 min. ago So you performed poorly and his revenge was complaining about poor performance? It sounds like you deserved it.
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