Tuesday 19 July 2016

Where's the diesel?

Yesterday was very odd!
Do we all have days like this? When everything has suddenly turned pear shaped and nothing feels normal?
It started when I realised I had very little fuel in my car!
Last week I had driven much further than usual and had neglected the gentle reminders my car had given me.
The nearest garage is around fifteen miles away...off I went, parked by the pumps and heard a voice saying
"I haven't got any! "
What? No diesel at the only garage for miles?
No' he really didn't have any.
"I can get some," he announced. "But not till this afternoon. "
He peered at my gage. "You'll get home "he said.
"Yes but will I get back again? " this question was left unanswered...
I knew almost everyone in that village. Time to do some visiting.
The morning was spent with two old dears...whilst I tried to pretend that I wasn't waiting for some diesel to arrive.
On getting back behind the wheel my indicator told me I was running on my emergency tank......this has never happened before so I had no idea how far I could get.
Plans formed in my head....the pub would be open dreckly. But then I'd be in no fit state to drive anyway!
Who else did I know? Almost everyone but it was now almost lunch time...not a good time to arrive for a visit and anyway I couldn't drive round and round...that's what had got me into this mess in the first place.
Walking is good I told myself...at the bottom of the hill was the sea...but if I walked down I'd have to claw my way back up.
In the interim I just sat, engine off and considered my best moves...I didn't even have my mobile phone with me.
Eventually the diesel arrived...
I filled up remembering that this particular garage only took cash...that was touch and go but as he had said once before when I arrived without my purse,he knew where I lived!
"It's all these visitors" the garage man said "School doesn't break up till next week and I wasn't expecting a heat wave! "
It was true, the Roseland was full of as much traffic as in August so we blamed the weather for bringing out the emmets early.
We both felt a certain satisfaction in this!
It's was a funny old day!


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2 comments:

PixieMum said...

DH insists on filling up his car as soon as the gauge reaches just below half full, means the bill never seems so bad when it is just over half a tank full. As our offspring live over an hour and over two hours away (timings can be subject to a following wind) in an emergency he wouldn't want to be faffing around trying to fill up, especially given we don't use supermarket petrol so need to find a proper garage.

UKViewer said...

Always used to keep a full tank when working, but these days, just once a month. Meanwhile spouse who works locally wants her tank filled if it goes down one notch - obsessive or what?