| EPIC FAIL MANEUVER GO! |
[Friday, 18th January 2008, 11:37PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
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I feel like RAPC!
Today was made of fail. Why? Because I never got to go to the party. Let me explain.
See, I didn't have much traffic jam on my way to work, and it was my first time using the car. All went pretty well until the end of the day. I started the car, which took two attempts because the start blocker was on the first time, silly animated me~ 8D
Halfway through the small drive, the engine suddenly stops! I was kinda low on petrol, so I figured the meter wasn't working 100% and I simply ran out. This alone was enough to drive me insane. I'd have to face the music monday and it would probably haunt me for the rest of my carreer at Analytico. I pushed the car to a safe spot (actually, I wanted to push the car back to the gas station I saw back there, but I overshot it by about one/two kilometers, and after 500 meters, I couldn't go on. Cars are heavy...)
So, off I go to the nearest gas station, 'bout 1 km remaining, no jerrycan at hand, so I first rang a couple of doorbells, most of the people were kind enough to open the door to tell me they didn't have one. Anyway, after a good walk in the drizzle, I find out it's an automated pump, without service shop. No jerrycans there... There was another one at the other side of the little town.
Well, the town may be little, but it's basically the one road. I think it was another two to three kilometers walking, part over unfinished road, due to reconstruction. The drizzle had slowly advanced into minor rain, and I was wet. Got a jerrycan filled with gas there, the clerk was really nice, and off I went, on the trip back. With a 5 liter can of gas, the trip back was no fun either.
The best part? It wasn't the gas. I found that out when I arrived back at my car and had thrown the stuff in there. No go. A good hour had passed now and I was getting cold. After a couple of frustrating tries to get 'El Furore' to start again, I gave up. I tried looking around whether I could find the bowling alley we were supposed to meet. Amusingly, no-one had even HEARD of the alley, even though I was supposed to be in a 500-meter radius of the place...
I decided to call our "Wegenwacht", which is the Dutch car service thingamajig. They took a good hour to get to my place, but the guy was very capable. Even so, he took another half hour to locate the problem, he had to tow the car to the nearest gas station (the automated one, which, ironically ended up not accepting my ATM card, even though the big letters at the entrance made it very clear they accepted ATM cards...) where he ended up burning the fuses clean and doing some shit I couldn't understand, but eventually the car started again.
A bit of backfire here and there, since he had injected much fuel directly into the system, but there were no sparks to ignite the fuel. He followed me to the other gas station. The clerk recognized me from last time and she was very surprised I was only back now. XD
Anyway, filled 'im up, went home, since the party probably ended like, half an hour ago from then, and here I am.
I got a message from the guy who took over the interest collage MeMe, so also, without further ado:
( My Interests Collage! ) |
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