We've all heard of Christmas trees, Christmas presents, and Christmas carols, but what about Christmas gas?
This is what holiday jokesters are telling their loved ones that they pumped air into their cars as part of a viral TikTok prank.
“Hey, it’s Hannah,” a naughty girl said to her husband on the phone.
“We have a problem. I stopped to get gas on the way to work and they were closed. So I needed to get some Christmas gas. And now I… The car was sputtering so bad I could barely get to work.”
Hannah Crawford, 31, of Stockton, Alabama, heard about the prank from a friend and couldn't help but try it out on her husband.
The family counselor snuck into a colleague's office and made a phone call.
“What did you just use?” Clayton Crawford can be heard asking, according to a video his wife posted on TikTok. “Don't play with me. What are you talking about?”
At this point, he seems skeptical.
“Christmas gas,” she replied, unable to suppress a laugh.
“It had a green handle instead of black.”
“I'm going to kill you,” Clayton Crawford told his wife. “If you’re going to do that, you better throw that car off a bridge somewhere, because what I’m telling you is, it’s ruined.
“They're fixing it right now,” Hannah Crawford assured her husband.
“I have diesel in my car,” he says. “We can't help you. The green handle is diesel.”
“He got into it,” Hannah Crawford told FOX News Digital. But Clayton said he had his doubts.
“As you can imagine, to be honest, I was probably tired of her attitude,” Clayton Crawford told FOX News Digital.
“But this time you might be half-wondering if she really did it. One of the things about her is that it's never impossible. There's always that feeling of, 'Oh my god.' there is. “When you get on the phone with her, you never know what you’re going to get,” he said.
Viewers seemed excited by the video.
One person commented: “I'm so glad his first thought was insurance fraud.”
“The fact that he doesn't even phase that he has a problem,” another wrote.
“Why did he give off a Rip from Yellowstone vibe when he said, 'I don't have time for you today,'” one person commented.
The Christmas gas trend started in 2023, with many videos going viral, like Carsen Holloway Ward's 2.9 million views after tricking her father into thinking she bought the “Christmas gas” she saw on TikTok. It spread to
“You don't follow TikTok,” the father replied, adding, in part, “this is why kids don't know anything about life.”
“I've actually put diesel in a gas car and can testify that not all dads are this gentle,” someone commented.
“You can tell she's his little princess. Very patient,” another wrote.
While the video drew laughs, the actual effects of adding diesel fuel to a gasoline-powered vehicle are problematic and can be costly, said Valvoline Express Care owner in Waco, Texas. Paul Sadosky told Fox News Digital.
“There's still gas in the line so it will start,” Sadosky said.
“But once you run out of gas in the line and switch to diesel, you're probably going to start running rough. You're going to start smoking and the car is going to start misfiring.”
Eventually, damage may require a new motor.
Diesel fuel is thicker than gasoline, evaporates more slowly, and is therefore not compatible at all.
“But if we find it in time, we might just flush all the lines and put in a new fuel filter,” Sadosky said.
“Some fuel lines may need to be replaced.”
Sadoski added that putting gas in a diesel car is actually worse.
