4.10.08

And the Prize for Dickhead

Of the day goes to ME ...
Why you ask ?
Because after putting fuel into the hire car ,I then read the sign on the petrol flap and realised that i had had just put forty English pounds of Unleaded into a Diesel car.
What A Knobhead .
It's now 11.15 and the car is in a garage having the fuel drained.
The remaining three lads are hopefully flying up the A1 to Newcastle in the Fighters car.
I am going nowhere waiting for phonecall to pick the car up and overall at least £250 lighter for the experience.
The morals are be more careful when fuelling cars that you don't know and read the fuel cap.
Time to watch the end of Soccer Am and continue to berate my myself for my own stupidity.
Fingers crossed that the traffic is light for the 3 lads.

Added note -
The good news is that the garage have popped the bonnet and found that the last user of the car left the oil cap off and the engine is now coated in what oil was left in the engine.
In other words we would of broke down and probably destroyed the engine if we had tried to get to the game. There is always a positive as they say.
I might even go and see how bad the reserves still are later now if the car is done.