[tcb] Re: Bus story of the day
- From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:45:31 -0800 (PST)
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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