Noob mistakes with your car

That used to happen to me in college with my 67 Barracuda that won a "beaters" contest, except my windows were closed. The smoke came in through the rust holes in the bottom of the quarter panels...

That car looked like such a POS that when people cut me off in the ghetto in Detroit, I would honk my horn. When they checked their rear view mirror and saw my car, they changed lanes back to get out of my way...

But...my WORST noob mistake was when I came home from college to visit my dad. I filled my car with gas and started driving back to school. I get 125 miles from home and my car died and would not start up. Had it towed back home ($300) and proceeded to change the engine. Get another engine in it and try to start it.... It was out of gas!!!

From then on I use the plastic see through gas filters instead of the metal cans....

I don't know why it got such bad fuel economy to run out of gas that soon, but was an expensive way to learn that I ran out of gas.