my car has issues with me
Friday, November 16, 2007Labels: about me
On Wednesday I did something I never thought I would do. I ran out of gas. TWO.BLOCKS.FROM.HOME. I had been driving on E for awhile but I pride myself on knowing when I need to get gas. Normally I reset the trip odometer when the low gas light comes on. But Josh and I were already using the trip odometer to measure how many miles we drove over the weekend when the light went off so I didn't want to reset it.
I knew I was low, like really low. I had decided when I left work I would go home and then first thing drive up to BP to put gas in my car. That plan didn't so much work out. I was coming up to a stop sign two and a half blocks away from my apartment. My car did this weird puttering sound. And then it died. (Thankfully not in the middle of the road.) I tried to start it again but knew that I had killed it.
I called Josh to come rescue me. The call went something like this:
J: Hi Baby!
K: Josh! I.just.ran.out.of.gas.TWO.blocks.from.home.hurry.and.come.help.me!
Luckily I only had to wave past like three cars but it was still really embarrassing. Of course, now I'm telling the Internet so whatever... I'm pretty sure I pissed off my car though. Yesterday the "Service Engine Soon" light came on. We stopped at AutoZone and apparently my coolant was low.
Josh thinks it's my fault because I don't treat my car that well. I reminded him that I always get the oiled changed regularly and keep the tires filled (usually). Things that have gone wrong aren't my fault. Like I said to Josh last night, "Do I look like a car person?". He asked what that was. I said, "You know, those people that know things...about cars".
1 Comments:
I, too, wait until the last possible minute to put gas in my car. It drives Jeremy nuts. He fills up when he gets down to a quarter of a tank. I've only run out once, back when I had my Pathfinder, and fortunately it was at the top of the bridge and the gas station was at the bottom, so I lucked out. Now I have a car that tells me how many miles I have left on the tank, so it kind of takes the fun out of it. :)
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