Debbie - i figured everybody was tired of my driving stories so I wasn&#39;t going to get into it and yes...I do believe it would rank another verse or three.  But since you asked I will try and give you the Readers Digest version.<br /><br />got back from school yesterday morning and left the lights on the little Honda.  As Rose says...&quot;I do that sometimes&quot;  realized it when I went to leave to go to town around noon and the car wouldn&#39;t start...ok i will see if my Jeep will start, had my doubts i could get it started because it hadn&#39;t been started in awhile and it is hard to start when I drive it everyday...another long story, but anyway, it won&#39;t start.  so I resign myself to no trip to town...LOL<br /><br />this means I will have to take my parents truck to school to pick up the girls, no big deal.  time to go I walk up to their house and I go.  start on way back and almost to our little road and the truck JUST DIES&#33;  I manage to coast to our road and turn and coast maybe 40 more feet and get it to the side of the road.  Try to start it, no go.  Well. Well. Well.  Now what do I do?  It is only 1 mile home but I swear to goodness it is UPHILL all the way&#33;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":laugh:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Oh Course Rachael wants to start walking&#33;  noway does she want to be stuck on the side of the road broke down...i say no.<br />so I call Daddy...dumb idea, he has no transportation.  Even if my Honda would start He couldn&#39;t get in it,drive it, or get out of it, it is a compact&#33; A CRX&#33;  Anbody remember those? <br />call him anyway and he says it is probably out of gas...what I say? out of gas?  the gauge is reading full...Oh Yeah, the gauge doesn&#39;t work all the time.  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" /> check the trip meter...192 miles...and since all he does he drive the truck around the houseplace and down to the road and back getting the mails and papers it doesn&#39;t get very good gas mileage&#33;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/angry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":angry:" border="0" alt="angry.gif" /> <br /><br />he says he will call my sister and see if she will come and get him and he will bring us some gas, well she doesn&#39;t answer the phone...I get tired of people wizzing past me and not stopping to help so I call hubby.  he says he will be right there. well right there could be 1/2 hour...<br /><br />once a car went past us, turned around in a driveway up ahead, came back down, drove slowly by us and then went on&#33;  I wanted to get out and scream at them&#33;  I guess we weren&#39;t who they thought we were&#33;<br />Ok, it has only been about 15 minutes really...but I have gotten pretty mad...now somebody does stop and it is a neighbor.  she asks if she can help and i say if you would just take the girls to my parents that would be a HUGE help&#33;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":laugh:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <br /><br />next, my sister finally calls and she had been in the shower, says she will be there in 5 minutes...yeah right<br />the lady whose house I ended up in front up saw me came out and asked to help and I told her help was one the way.  the other lady whose driveway I stopped just in front of so not to block it, and also is the school nurse and I went to school with stopped as she was pulling in when she got home from school and etc. etc.etc....we had a nice chat while I cooled my heals.   <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" />   By this time hubby Calls and asked exactly where I was at, told him and said Daddy thinks I am out of gas, he says he knows&#33; got a gas can and is pumping gas now.<br />End of long story...he got there, put gas in, truck started, he <b>ROARED</b> OFF &#33;  and I drove the truck home.<br /><br /><b>And the rest of the evening it was ALL my fault&#33;</b><br /><br /><b>and this my friends IS the Readers Digest Version ~</b>