While driving Britta to preschool today the car made a funny lurch. Humm, this feels like the car is running out of gas... a quick glance at the gas gauge... oh crap!!!
Jana was driving just a half mile ahead of me... i quickly grabbed my cell phone... speed dial jana... straight to voice mail. WHAT?! Dial again... voice mail. crap!!!
The car is really lurching now. I was able to get the car to sputter to snake hill, and we coasted all the way down, but at the bottom, next to the Normandy Park Pool, it was over.
"we're gonna be late for preschool Britta."
With Britta on my shoulders we started hiking to Preschool. It's frickin freezin. blowing 25 mph. i'm wearing clogs. hiking up hill. about a third of a mile.
We had a nice conversation on our walk...
Me: "The car eats gas, and when the car has no gas in its tummy... well, then it wont run."
Britta: "Feed the car some leaves."
Me: "No... that's silly. You know what the car would say? It would say BLAH!"
Britta: "Feed the car some branches."
Me: "Blah!"
... and this conversation went on till we got to preschool.
Teacher Linda was super nice and insisted i borrow her car to get some gas.
I drove her car up to the gas station, borrowed a can of gas, pumped one gallon. Drove back to the Subaru.
Poured the gas in the Subaru. Drove the Subaru back to the gas station, returned the gas can and filled up the subaru.
Then, I drove the Subi to Preschool, parked the Subi in the parking lot, and started my walk back to Teacher Linda's car parked down by the pool. At least the walk back to her car was downhill... but then it started raining, hard, sideways, frozen/slushy/snow rain. greeeeaaat.
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