Here's something that may make you laugh!
On my way home last night, I thought I'd do the normal thing and fill my car up with some petrol, ok fair enough... although I hate pumping my car full of expensive fuel...I do it without too much concern... After finishing spending a small fortune I attempted to take the pump nozzle out of my fuel pipe ...and damn!!!!
it got stuck!!! the bloody thing just wouldn’t come out!
Ok, what the **** do I do now!!! I started to twist the bloody thing, left right and center! After 10 minutes of this...without understanding what I was doing I went into the petrol station shop and told the kiosk guy. Big queue of people and here's me admitting that my nozzle got stuck in the hole (keep on track people, I'm still talking about my car!
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He just said "right"!...and started fumbling at papers...useless I thought so I went back out and carried on pulling my pipe.
A guy came out, whom I spoke to in the shop, I think he worked at the garage, in a suit so could have been management. So he came out and started tugging...but to no avail
Ok, I'll phone Vaxuhall Assistance.... just setting the time for you... I lodged the nozzle at about 4.50pm. I phoned Vauxhall at 5.15pm. The lady on the free phone number was really polite and offered to phone anyone for me. (I used the garage's phone cause the freephone number would be charged on my phone
). She told me that the estimate for someone to come out was 6.15-6.30pm ...Blimey, but ok...it's still about an hour. I then had to pay for the fuel as the alarm started to go off behind the counter on his till! After paying and before I started to leave the shop to return to my bondaged car, the kiosk guy asked me if I could move my car!!!!! WTF, do you not understand!....I made a flippant and rude comment to him and walked out!!!
So here I am stuck sitting in my car with a pipe in my arse! I made another vain attempt to pull it out…but got concerned that my pulling would cause a spark…so I quickly stopped and got back into my car (after explaining to some local in his F reg escort that my car was stuck! I grabbed a red cone and placed it behind my car to keep me from having to explain again!!!)
My wife turned up, luckily she only works around the corner (I was picking her up), and we went in to buy some comfort food!!! By the time we came out and started to much our embarrassment away the AA guy turned up and saved the day, in the end!
He turned up at 5.37pm, which is 20 minutes or so later which I was impressed by
The AA guy was really nice and friendly and admitted in his long years of being with cars he’d not seen this problem before….he even admitted he didn’t know what he was doing as he poked his metal screw driver down into my fuel pipe!!!!
I questioned him doing that, after taking a step back!... He gave me a 101 course in fuel ignition and explosions, which I’m pleased to say didn’t entail any practical examples!
He said that since my car drinks diesel it was a safe thing to do. Apparently Diesel is a safe fuel to work with, although he didn’t like the smell! A bucket of Diesel would distinguish a light match when dropped into it, apparently…tho I’m not going to try it!
After taking my fuel flap off and taping the surrounding area of the body work up, to prevent scratches, he finally managed to free the pipe!!! Apparently, the notches on the nozzles were caught on the flap (which is supposed to prevent a back drip, if you over fill).
All done and dusted and was pleased to get away at about 6pm
So if anyone saw an idiot on Trafford road Shell petrol station between 5-6pm Monday night, in a Silver Vectra!...it was me!!!!
Moral of this, overly and unnecessary long, story is never put your pipe where you’re not going to get it out.
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