I was toolin' around in my little car all Saturday... went shopping, chores, lunch, etc. I drove, Sweet Hubby crammed himself in the passenger seat.
Nooooo.. I wasn't really going that fast! tee hee. I just like that snapshot!
See that left guage there? Below? The one that says 0 mph right now?
So Saturday we are cruisin' and that guage keeps flashing! I thought maybe it wasn't working right, did I need some kind of service? Was something wrong? Nope everything worked fine and besides, it kept going back to how fast I was going. All was right with the world.
Well Sunday morning I was driving to church and it was flashing again. How annoying! STOP IT!!! Um, isn't this a lesser number than yesterday when Sweet Hubby was with me? OOhhhhh, Uh Oh, now I get it. Oh NOOOOO!! I only have 18 MILES left! That guage flashes when I'm getting low on gas!! Hey, so what is that little red light next to the gas guage??? Duh! So I drove home after church and parked it. It's not around the corner to a gas station since we live out in the middle of nowhere so I figured I'd wait until Monday. When I started her up in the a.m. it said 14 miles left, then before I got out to the road, 11!! Even though I was freshly showered, I was sweating as I was drove the 7-8 miles into town. I made it!! (were ya worried? hee hee) When I finally got to the filling station (do they still call them that?) and filled that baby up (she only takes the best Pree-Me-Yum!) she only had LESS than half a gallon in there.
Now maybe you live that close to the edge all the time but not me. Maybe you play a game with your gas guage, kinda a mental "Chicken", not this chick. Trust me friends, I have only run out of gas ONCE in my life and that was in 1975 when I was still in college in the San Fernando Valley!!! I'm not playing that game again. This is THE closest I have been to running out of gas since then... REALLY! And I bet it's a long time before it happens again! Realllllly!
Meanwhile, whatta ditz, duh, "What's that guage flashing for?" har har
Tell me your recent ditzy story!!
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When we lived on Dove Rd, I used to push the LeBaron to the limits, to see how far I could go before I needed gas! ce the gas light came on, I would reset the trip counter to see how far it would make it.... I got up to 4, but living out in the sticks, I got too scared of being stranded 4 miles from the gas station so I finally filled up! Oh, and I ran out of gas in my 'new-used car' in September about 15 blocks from our house. Our neighbor graciously drove me down there with a gallon of gas for my car! I now fill up every couple of days, never letting more that 100 miles add up on the trip counter!
Well, I ran out of gas as I rolled into the gas station once...in high school with a few carpool classmates. Not a nice moment...or a very triumphal one!
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