{"id":13596,"date":"2024-03-26T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13596"},"modified":"2024-03-29T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T09:25:30","slug":"days-out-uh-oh-poor-flo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13596","title":{"rendered":"DAYS OUT: Uh-Oh\u2026 Poor Flo\u2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today I had a difficult moment. After owning and driving unleaded petrol cars all my life, Flo\u2019, our new car, is diesel. This morning, around 6.15 am, muscle memory took over. And I put unleaded in Flo\u2019s diesel tank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The car conked out in Peterborough. Only three or four deliveries in to a morning Amazon delivery route. I\u2019m with the RAC now (always AA, formerly), because they let me pay monthly DD. Rather annoyingly, I was left sat in the car till gone midday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here comes the cavalry!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And not only that, if I\u2019d have called these guys directly, it\u2019d have cost \u2018just\u2019 \u00a3160. Doing it via the RAC I was charged \u00a3240! I\u2019m totally broke, as ever. So this fleecing is not<\/em> appreciated!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a330 unleaded being sucked out of my tank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And not only did I spend \u00a3240 having the tank flushed. I\u2019d also wasted \u00a330 filling up with unleaded earlier. So that\u2019s \u00a3270 flushed away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roadside recovery in progress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately Flo\u2019 seems to have come through this fine. The Fuel Doc\u2019 guy says that\u2019s the case 90% of the time nowadays. He also told me that, allegedly, on average this – mis-fuelling – happens about once every three minutes, in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve now done two of those classic \u2018I\u2019ll never be dumb enough to do that\u2019 things: locking my keys in the boot (MX5, a year or two back), and now this, filling up with the wrong fuel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You live and learn thank goodness Flo\u2019 came through it ok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had two Amazon delivery shifts: the first was mostly aborted, inevitably (all undelivered stuff returned to depot). The second I managed to complete, with no problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phew\u2026 an expensive and quite stressful day. And the day before my \u2018day in court\u2019. Not the kind of prep you want for a potentially stressful occasion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I had a difficult moment. After owning and driving unleaded petrol cars all my life, Flo\u2019, our new car, is diesel. This morning, around 6.15 am, muscle memory took over. And I put unleaded in Flo\u2019s diesel tank. The car conked out in Peterborough. Only three or four deliveries in to a morning Amazon … <\/p>\n

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