A TIKTOK user has shared a wild motor hack that can save your day – all you need is a £3 Tesco kitchen tool.
Brittany Nash, from Melbourne, Australia, admits she is not the best driver and often struggles to reach the ticket machine in car parks.
Tiktok/@asian.barbieeBrittany Nash admits to being a bad driver but this hack helps her out[/caption]
Tiktok/@asian.barbieeThe Ozzie lady uses a pair of tongs to grab the ticket from a machine[/caption]
While she has found a great way to around the hassle of stretching out through the window to grab the ticket, her great hack has left her TikTok fans in stitches.
Brittany just keeps a pair of kitchen tongs – one that could easily be bought off Tesco for £3 – and uses it to extend her hand to get a ticket.
Taking to her TikTok page, she said: “Whenever someone new comes into my car, they’re always like, ‘Brit, why do you have tongs in your car?’”
“Okay, great question, but I have an even better answer.
She added: “You know, when you come up to those boom gates for the car park and they’ve got a little ticket machine, I can never get close enough to the ticket machine without my handy dandy little tongs.”
Brittany admitted the tongs were her “solution” for “being a bad driver” and she pays no attention to what anyone else thinks.
She said: “If there’s a person behind me, they always laugh at me. I watch them in the rear-view mirror.
“But you know what? I’d rather be that weirdo with the tongs who’s lowkey kind of smart than that person who’s unbuckling and opening the door. How embarrassing! Okay, tongs for life.”
The brief video has since gone viral and has been viewed more than 212,000 times, with many commentators thanking Britt for sharing her nifty hack.
One person said: “As someone who’s short, this is genius.”
Another added: “This is SO smart!!”
While a third wrote: “I am so doing this. Off I got to get some silicone grip tongs.”
Another person tagged a friend and said they were off to “buy tongs immediately.”
Meanwhile,
, a TikTok influencer revealed the greatest car hack – and it is perfect for carting around Christmas chocolates this festive season.
She revealed how to keep chocolates from melting when the car’s heater is on – and the secret button to do it lies inside the glove box of the car.
She showed a secret button inside the cabin – an aircon filter which can be turned off.
After turning it off, the glove box remains cool, even if the car is hot due to the heater.
It is a perfect hack to carry loads of chocolates around this Christmas.
Another, TikToker shared a brilliant hack to open the fuel caps of cars if they get stuck without damaging the paint job.
Dongcheshijie first warns people not to use sharp objects like screwdrivers or scissors – it could break the fuel cap lock which might cost a lot more to get fixed.
Instead, she teaches a brilliant way to fix the stuck cap by pulling a secret hack.
She goes to the back of the car, opens the trunk and shows a hidden cap with a fuel sign on it at the side of the gas cap.