[tcb] Re: Bus story of the day and Paul's wanderings
- From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:26:45 -0800 (PST)
You're killin me Sammie , that was a good one.I can't
wait for fredricksburge , I know all the back roads
now.
--- sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paul always has an adventure on a trip. We are
> trying real hard to get a gps and a gas can donated
> to for the Nac show as a prize for the best single
> cab award.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 8:20:15 PM
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Bus story of the day and Paul's
> wanderings
>
>
> I have a gas guage ,but it's at Bobs house , I
> bought
> a brand new gas tank and brand new VDO sender and
> hope
> to install it when I get my truck back from the body
> shop , I'll get a new gauge to make sure it works,
> .I
> guess one of the best times that I ran out of gas
> was
> coming back from Eureka with Katrina and Dan and we
> were looking into the I of the hurricane and I ran
> out
> of gas . Thank goodness for the tank in the treasure
> chest. .I guess the best things is that when you
> have
> a problem in a bus it's an adventure that we pass
> around to our freinds , if the same thing would of
> happened in outr domestic truck we would still be
> cussing ourselves . I think that's what is so kool
> about this whole VW deal . If it was easy everybody
> would be doing it.
> --- Denis <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Paul has a gas guage, but the sender is broke and
> he
> > would rather run out of
> > gas than fix it (or at least I think so)
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chuck Blue" <sukchew@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 4:07 PM
> > Subject: [tcb] Re: Bus story of the day
> >
> >
> > > Why don't you just get a fuel tap and install
> > it?Then when you run out of
> > > fuel just turn the handle and go on your way.
> > > Paul's probably had one when it was young.It was
> > called a rerserve tank
> > > but it was just a valve with a shorter intake
> > tube.
> > > ole blue
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "singlecabboy"
> <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 3:45 PM
> > > Subject: [tcb] Re: Bus story of the day
> > >
> > >
> > > Welcome to the club Robb, I'm still the
> presedent
> > ,but
> > > you can be the vice presedent . I don't have a
> > guage
> > > at all , but that is so to change, in my other
> > cars
> > > the addition of a guage hasn't helpped , the gas
> > can ,
> > > with gas in it has.
> > > --- wuzmop@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > >> Thanks for the reminder...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> Sent: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:43 PM
> > >> Subject: [tcb] Re: Bus story of the day
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> don't forget to put gas in it this afternoon.
> > >>
> > >> >From: wuzmop@xxxxxxx
> > >> >Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> >Subject: [tcb] Bus story of the day
> > >> >Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:38:59 -0500
> > >> >
> > >> >So last night I go to bed thinking to myself,
> "I
> > >> gotta put gas in the bus >in the morning."
> > >> >
> > >> >Fast forward to 5:30 am: This morning on the
> way
> > >> out I do my normal check >for phone, wallet,
> > badge,
> > >> keys. Everything checks out, but I have this
> > >> >nagging feeling that I'm forgetting something
> on
> > my
> > >> way to work.
> > >> >
> > >> >Hit a stretch of southbound I35 where there
> are
> > no
> > >> street lights, no >civilization, with the
> > exception
> > >> of homeless people. Bus stutters and >stalls.
> > Still
> > >> nothing has dawned on me. Coasted, tried to
> start
> > >> bus, it >starts and gets me maybe another 100
> > yards
> > >> of momentum, enough to coast >under some street
> > >> lights before Northwest Highway. I check my
> > >> probablities, >all checks out. Then it dawns on
> > me.
> > >> CRAP!
> > >> >
> > >> >So, there is a gas station about 1/2 a mile
> away
> > on
> > >> the other side of the >highway. Thank god I've
> > been
> > >> running 2 miles a day, because under the
> > >Northwest
> > >> highway bridge is likely where most of the
> > homeless
> > >> folks crash, >and I have to go under it to get
> to
> > >> the gas station. That and if I'm gone >long my
> > bus
> > >> gets stripped or will be occupied by homeless
> > >> people.
> > >> >
> > >> >I haul butt to the station. It's 6:05, sign
> says
> > it
> > >> opens at 6. Cool. Until >I realize the doors
> are
> > >> closed and the lady at the counter is
> COMPLETELY
> > >> >ignoring me. For 15 minutes. Some guy rolls up
> > and
> > >> needs to pay cash for >gas so when the pump
> > starts
> > >> beeping inside, she finally opens the door.
> > >> >
> > >> >$15 1 gallon gas can in hand, I run back to
> the
> > >> bus. A big sigh of relief >that he hadn't been
> > >> molested. Gas that bad boy up and roll on to
> > work.
> > >> >
> > >> >This is BEFORE I had any caffiene.
> > >> >
> > >> >Robb 1
> > >> >Bus 0
> > >>
> >
>
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