So there I was driving home from work on a Saturday night already about two hours behind, on the phone with my wife. Can see the gas light on, well I didn't think much of it. I usually push it pretty far, this time I went to far. Driving along like normal when the car makes this move. Now if you've ever felt this "feeling" before you know what it means. In my head I said oh fuck.
To my my wife I said I'm going to need gas very soon. She said what do you mean in that worried wife tune. Then boom there it was, I mean to tell you when a Prius runs out of gas the car yells at you almost as if to say hey dumb ass somethings wrong. Told my amazing understanding wife I just ran out of gas gotta go. Now the first thing you get is a big I mean freaking giant red light that reads problem, then the check engine light, and then the traction control light has to put its two cents in. So as this all unfolds in front of me like I'm 16 again my mind goes blank, I have no idea what to do. As if by magic my 28 year old ASE certified brain kicks in and bitch smacks my 16 year old inner self, and I remember that its a damned hybrid, not just any hybrid its a Toyota Prius, not a Honda hybrid the Prius can run on battery power alone. Remembering that in a mile I can exit to a down hill and right into a shell gas station. Well the Prius is game for must of that plan, the mile i had to the exit was all uphill, so the Prius and I made to the exit barely, now the exit is down hill we coast to the bottom of the exit ramp and the Prius that I love dearly said no more. So I pushed her fat ass in the 20 or so feet right up to the one pump at this particular gas station that was out of order. I'm standing there in front of this pump that doesn't work panting and breathing hard when the lady looks at me and with the straightest face known to man says "did you drive here from Alaska on one take of gas" being in the state of mind I was in at this moment in time, our eyes met and I said just as straight faced as she asked the question "yep from Alaska to right here on one take of gas. We both laughed. When she was finally finished pumping her own gas I push the heavy ass Prius six more feet to a pump that worked gassed up and was on my way again.
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