Scooter troubles

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
So today I decided that I was going to be very hard core and overtake a snazzy red car driving way too slowly for my liking, up prince Alfred Street (this on my small bright yellow, uber cool vuka scooter.) So I overtook and was happily driving along in front of the offending red car, when my scooter cut out totally, just before the stop street in front of the journ department. Feeling like an absolute idiot, I was stuck in the middle of the road, with about 3 cars behind me, and nothing I did would make my scooter start again. I couldn’t push it to a safer place because it is too heavy for me to push uphill. Eventually one of the Steers delivery guys, who was driving down the hill on his scooter saw that I was stuck and at my beckoning, did a U-turn and came to help me. He pushed my scooter around the corner for me and then tried to kick start it (this to the hilarity and giggles from the growing group of onlookers on the pavement, and to my increasing embarrassment.) I eventually decided that there was nothing I could do, because I had a lecture to go to. But I called my boyfriend (whom I was actually on my way to) and he came down the hill and whilst I was walking with him, I picked up a stick and stuck it into my petrol tank and it was BONE DRY! So luckily all that had happened was that my petrol had run out (despite the fact that my petrol gauge said that my tank was full) and my star of a boyfriend offered to walk into town and buy petrol for me while I went to my lecture. So all turned out well in the end. Apart from the embarrassment, I think it’s hilarious and at least now I know not to trust the fuel gauge!