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[challenge entry] From bitter experience

From the A World For Women challenge. See all 193 entries (closed)

(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:02, archived)
# ha ha
mine's the opposite - she insists she is about to run out of diesel even though the tank's still quarter full! Sheesh!
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:04, archived)
# I did 150 miles
with warning light on
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:06, archived)
# fucking hell
i did 80 in the red once.. then i conked out
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:06, archived)
# Interesting fact
It's illegal to run out of fuel on the public highway in the UK.
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:08, archived)
# technically
it is driving with an un-roadworthy vehicle!
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:09, archived)
# Surely
if you've run out of fuel, you're not driving at all
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:19, archived)
# i was lucky in a way
i was in guildford town centre when i conked out and a garage lent me a jiffy can so i could put 3 quid in
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:10, archived)
# my clapped out Nova, god rest it's soul
never had a working petrol gauge
oh the fun of mystery petrolage
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:12, archived)
# Gosh
Neither did mine. It had three readings: "full", "almost full" and "empty". Once you'd passed "almost full" it read "empty" until you chickened out and put more petrol in or ran out of petrol.
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:21, archived)
# I have a 2 year old motorcycle
at the luxuary end of the market, and it doesn't have a petrol gague. 14 litres of fuel capacity too...
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:32, archived)
# really?
that is interesting
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:10, archived)
# you should never leave on a journey
without sufficient hope of getting where you're going :)
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:11, archived)
# Silly
Inhaling petrol fumes will do that to you. Try putting it in the car.
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:11, archived)
# haha
silly me
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:13, archived)
# I managed to do that
in my old Rover 620 diesel. It was the best car in the world ever*, sob.

*until it broke.
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:09, archived)
# mine was in a 106 roland garos
(, Fri 27 Jan 2006, 9:12, archived)