It was just like any other Thursday. Go to work early in the morning. Come home for lunch. Have a bit of a rest in the middle of the afternoon and then do something with the youngest after virtual schooling is over. She always inquires about our upcoming activities for after school. On those days when I need to get rid of the household garbage I always tell her that I will be taking her to the 8th Wonder Of The World…….the landfill!! She’s usually not to happy about that but enjoys the ride anyway.
School ended. We got ready to go. She grabbed some snacks to take along for the ride…half of which she usually feeds to the dog and doesn’t offer me anything. That’s ok. She’s in the truck. Dog is excitedly in the truck as well anticipating the windy head out the window trek. I load up the garbage and recycling and we are ready to go!! Key in the ignition and away we…..don’t go anywhere?!?
Try this again. Key turning in the ignition and away we uhhhh…..staring at the fuel guage while the kid and dog are staring at me wondering what’s going on!!
And there it is – the 9th Wonder Of The World…..yes quite the sight – me running out of gas …..in my own driveway?! How is this possible? It was only 2 days ago that the low fuel gauge light came on. It was only 2 days of me procrastinating every time the annoying beeping of ‘low fuel’ warning sounded. Yup my fault entirely that we weren’t on our way. I exited the truck while 4 glaring eyes watched me go to the garage as I wondered (is that that 10th) if I had any gas cans with some gas in there. I lucked out! I did. Just enough gas to get ‘er started and we were on our way!! I wondered (the 11th) out loud at that point if I should stop at the gas station before heading out to the landfill which was a few kilometres away. There were no words or barks but I could feel a couple of icy cold stares that were saying ‘are you kidding me?!”
We stopped at the gas station and filled ‘er up. All good. No more problems for the rest of the trip.
Upon return I fessed up to the rest of the household about what happened (figured it would be better for me to do that rather than someone tattling on me – most likely the dog) and received more of the ‘you did what?’ looks and head shakes. Well at least it was over….or so I thought. I heard a couple of phone calls made later in the evening that started with…..”You’ll never guess what he did….” I was a hot topic last night! Yup guess I became the next ‘Wonder Of The World’. I wonder if this will ever happen again?
Are you a ‘half full, quarter tank, or fly under the radar’ type of person when it comes to your vehicle’s gas gauge? When do you ‘fill up’? I……wonder.
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