My mad sequence of events and unexpected two hour drive. Sorry Mr Itch, I've stolen your short hand style.
The car wouldn't start for OH when he was leaving for work yesterday morning, so we jumped it off the camper and away he went. When he left work it needed jumping off his bosses car, all very annoying because it's just had the alternator repaired, clearly the battery needs a good long charge as it's running on empty.
OH was dropping his work colleague off after work when suddenly the car died as he was just leaving a roundabout, luckily he managed to get into the edge safely, then rang me to come and jump it again. No problem, you're only 15 mins away, I'll be there very soon, or so I thought. Approaching one of the two bridges to get across the river and out of town, I could see the police had closed it, rats I thought, that's a pain, the other bridge is going to be crazy with traffic to get to.
As I drove past the bottom of the closed bridge on the one way bit in order to go back, I could see there was an air ambulance on it, I've never seen that before there, I've also never seen that bridge so empty of all traffic. So i had no choice but to make my way across town to the other bridge, 50mins after leaving home, I arrived to where OH was with our newest car, lol. We tried to jump it, no joy, it was as if it had no fuel. The fuel gauge hasn't worked for over two years, probably nearer three, but it's never been a problem before, we fill it up when the trip counter says 600 miles, it was only saying 510, another 90 miles we thought. Anyway I went to a fuel station to get a can and fuel to go in the can, I also put a gallon in the van as that is also running below the red, and made my way back to the car. Put the fuel in, it wouldn't start, it needed jumping again. I'm so pleased the campers battery is in the back and the cars battery is in the front, it made it really easy to get near to each others battery's. Anyway got it jumped and away it went.
The lad that had the lift could have walked quicker, but as hes nice he didn't want to leave OH.
Dropped him off, then of course we had to re join the traffic on the way home as the bridge was still shut, so just over two hours after he finished work and rang me, we arrived home. What a mad sequence of events!!!
Car not starting - repeatedly, air ambulance on bridge, no fuel - for the first time ever and too long waits in very awful traffic and a lift that took twice as long as walking.
We can only conclude that the fuel has either been nicked, or when the alternator was repaired, the garage left it running for ages to charge the battery, which doesn't explain why it still won't start. But what can you do except for laugh about it all, it things like this that are stories to recall later on in life, and to give you all a good laugh.
Just found out why the bridge was shut.
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