Anni's car adventures

El offers Anni her car while El is away in Tasmania. Day 1 – Anni takes car out for a test run and does all right until it’s time to turn around. Realizes she has no idea how to put it into reverse. Tries harder. Gets more worried. Is sitting in a stranger’s driveway. The car is revving like crazy. Luckily the driveway is steep and because anni is smart she drives up the driveway and then lets it roll backwards while she turns around and drives back home.

Day 2: Anni goes to fill up the car with petrol at Hornsby Heights petrol station. A little worried that something will go wrong and she will embarrass herself. She drives in to the petrol station and fortunately goes to the right side but unfortunately drives way too close to the tank and can hardly open her door to get out. Then she picks up ‘leaded’ instead of ‘unleaded’ and forgets if you have to press the handle as soon as you take it out of the tank or if you just leave it. Decides to press the handle. Petrol pump shakes and petrol comes spilling out everywhere all over anni and the car and the ground.

Oops.

Quick, put it back in! Try again…okay, good, no more petrol coming out. Now, put it in the car……anni sticks it too far into the car and presses but nothing comes out. She pushes it even further in and presses but again nothing comes out. Finally looks up and sees petrol station man looking at her and furiously shaking his head while holding up his hand to signal ‘stop! Stop!’

Uh oh…

Petrol station man comes out. “Is it not coming out?”

“Yeah it’s not working.”

“You’re pushing it in too far,” he said and took the pump from me, “Look, you only put it in this far.”

“ohh…”

“Oh this is leaded, is that what you wanted?”

I looked, “Oh oops no I meant to get unleaded!”

Petrol station man throws his hands into the air despairingly and says, “Oh now you’ve done it again! You can’t use the same tank for unleaded if you’ve already used leaded! You’ll have to reverse the car back to this other tank.”

Anni gets back into car thinking this is beyond embarrassing. Reverses to the other tank, gets out, and petrol station man fills up her car for her.