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Just wanted to relay a story to you that happened to me on Friday, thought it might get a laugh or some interest...
It all started Thursday night when my still at uni mates coaxed me out for a couple of sneaky beers. After a while those couple of sneaky ones turned into a full fledged night out. I got home at 4am.
Anyway, the next morning I was awoken by the photographer at my work asking me if I was going to a job or not, which I wasn't, but I was still a bit late for work.
On the way I hit up the drive thru at Maccas for some early morning artery cloggers, when a guys petrol ran out. As a gesture of good will I volunteered to help him push his ute to the petrol station. "Awesome" I thought, "My good will is done for the day". I also noticed my petrol was low, but because I was late for work I thought I'd wait to fill up after the day had ended.
One long, hungover work day later, I was driving home from work when the enivitable happened...my car ran out of petrol. "Ok" I thought, "I'll call the RACV and get them to bring me some petrol". Lo and behold, phone dead.
Luckily I was stopped outside a house on an otherwise relatively uninhabited area. I went in and used their phone, with the guy telling me he had petrol if I needed it.
Soon after the RACV rocked up, and without trying to put fuel in, popped the bonnet and told me my petrol pump was stuffed. I didn't think that was right, but the guy insisted it was and ordered a tow truck to take me into town.
Annoyed, I went back over the house and asked if I could borrow some petrol, which the guys said was fine, however there wasn't enough to get it started. Meanwhile the tow truck had rocked up, with the towy offering me a ride home.
After some discussion I told him I was sure it was a fuel issue and not a big deal, to which he replied he would happily take me to APCO to give some fuel a shot...lucky for me he was a top bloke and 20 bucks of petrol later my car was going again. Thank christ for good people like the family in the house and the tow truck driver.
Anyway, I think it was karma. Karma for being an idiot and going out on a work night, resulting in my car running out of petrol. And karma for helping out the guy with the car issue in the morning, with a guy helping me out.
As for the RACV guy....
It all started Thursday night when my still at uni mates coaxed me out for a couple of sneaky beers. After a while those couple of sneaky ones turned into a full fledged night out. I got home at 4am.
Anyway, the next morning I was awoken by the photographer at my work asking me if I was going to a job or not, which I wasn't, but I was still a bit late for work.
On the way I hit up the drive thru at Maccas for some early morning artery cloggers, when a guys petrol ran out. As a gesture of good will I volunteered to help him push his ute to the petrol station. "Awesome" I thought, "My good will is done for the day". I also noticed my petrol was low, but because I was late for work I thought I'd wait to fill up after the day had ended.
One long, hungover work day later, I was driving home from work when the enivitable happened...my car ran out of petrol. "Ok" I thought, "I'll call the RACV and get them to bring me some petrol". Lo and behold, phone dead.
Luckily I was stopped outside a house on an otherwise relatively uninhabited area. I went in and used their phone, with the guy telling me he had petrol if I needed it.
Soon after the RACV rocked up, and without trying to put fuel in, popped the bonnet and told me my petrol pump was stuffed. I didn't think that was right, but the guy insisted it was and ordered a tow truck to take me into town.
Annoyed, I went back over the house and asked if I could borrow some petrol, which the guys said was fine, however there wasn't enough to get it started. Meanwhile the tow truck had rocked up, with the towy offering me a ride home.
After some discussion I told him I was sure it was a fuel issue and not a big deal, to which he replied he would happily take me to APCO to give some fuel a shot...lucky for me he was a top bloke and 20 bucks of petrol later my car was going again. Thank christ for good people like the family in the house and the tow truck driver.
Anyway, I think it was karma. Karma for being an idiot and going out on a work night, resulting in my car running out of petrol. And karma for helping out the guy with the car issue in the morning, with a guy helping me out.
As for the RACV guy....
