Never run out of gas.

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:46 pm

OK, after school today I had the most extreme experience... my brother's conversion van ran out of gas. But heres the full spill.
We were at a stop light, going to get gas after school (the meter had been on empty when we went to school) and then the engine started to make funny noises and the car started shaking I was like "Derick (who is my brother) we're out of gas, feel the car shaking?", then the engine turned off my brother was like "shit", luckily we were on a down hill but at an intersection. So we start rolling once the light turns green, but we don't have enough speed to go over the hump in the middle of the intersection so Derick is like "Get out and push", So I jump out of the car while still in the middle of the intersection, push it so it starts rolling down the hill, then run to catch up with it hold onto the side, then climb in the window, it was fun. Then my brother starts complaining that he doesn't have power steering or breaks, and he broke a sweat turning into the parking lot. Probably one of the most fun things ever. But the moral of this post is, never run out of gas, I was in a relatively good situation, because we had a hill going down to a parking lot plus my brother has some awesome friends that decided to come and get us a can of gas.

Phosphorous · Post by **Phosphorous** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:02 pm

Yea, running out of gas is bad.

WaywornMmmmm · Post by **WaywornMmmmm** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:34 pm

I thought you were gonna say a way to never run out of gas. Sounds like a cool experience though.

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:38 pm

WaywornMmmmm wrote:I thought you were gonna say a way to never run out of gas.

If that were possible, he'd be a billionaire already.

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:45 pm

Meh to never get stuck in a bad situation without gas, have a can in the back of the car.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:21 pm

RaVNzCRoFT wrote:
WaywornMmmmm wrote:I thought you were gonna say a way to never run out of gas.
If that were possible, he'd be a billionaire already.

Get a bike.

Now where's my money?

Anyway, sounds like an interesting occurrence.

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:38 pm

I'm not going to bike to school. I have to go down one huge hill, then go up another not to mention there a a bridge in between them that doesn't have a walkway for pedestrians. Oh yea and its a highway.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:40 pm

Lol, similar thing happened to me this afternoon. The bus broke down and I had to walk 5 miles home.

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:41 pm

That sucks, don't they send in a replacement to pick you up?
EDIT: Man I'm dumb.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:44 pm

Uhm, no

Now back on topic. We don't want this turning into a spam-fest.

xXsavagemonkeyzXx · Post by **xXsavagemonkeyzXx** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:01 pm

sounds like fun but ya you usually dont want to run out of gas

jks · Post by **jks** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:03 pm

Funny thing my car almost ran out of gas on the way home too, I swear it was half full like 3 days ago, then suddenly I look today and its beyond the lowest it can go... lucky my school is only like 2 miles from a gas station.

Phosphorous · Post by **Phosphorous** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:51 pm

My friend was driving and we stopped for gas. Her car has a 10 gallon capacity and it filled up to 9.998 gallons

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:41 pm

Umm thats a real exciting story

Phosphorous · Post by **Phosphorous** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:45 pm

a mammoth wrote:Umm thats a real exciting story

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yea, it had 0.002 gallons left. It would have been interesting if it ran out when we were in the intersection...

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:48 pm

Oh now I get it, I was stupid

. Anyways you know when your car is about to run out of gas plus I'm assuming that its a small car, not a conversion van, so it would be relatively easy to push.

Phosphorous · Post by **Phosphorous** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:49 pm

a mammoth wrote:Oh now I get it, I was stupid . Anyways you know when your car is about to run out of gas plus I'm assuming that its a small car, not a conversion van, so it would be relatively easy to push.

Yea, it was an echo. But there was no hill.