Speaker 1: Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: My wife is an habitual offend or driving around with
Speaker 1: the fuel on red in reserve. Yesterday finally caught up
Speaker 1: with her. She run out of fuel. Christ. I know
Speaker 1: it's bad for the car, but I also, like your wife,
Speaker 1: loved that cheeky little thrill I get from running around
Speaker 1: with that fuel light on. Will I make it? We'll
Speaker 1: just answer ustrike while it rush. So when I know
Speaker 1: your story is about running out of fuel? Nine four
Speaker 1: one four one oh four three, And I come home
Speaker 1: the last time I saw people pushing a car that
Speaker 1: run out fuel to new cars. Now that you can't
Speaker 1: do that or we're not supposed to, you know what,
Speaker 1: you used to see it a lot.
Speaker 2: I mean I remember with my first car, I pushed
Speaker 2: twice yes to.
Speaker 1: Get it going. Sometimes as well is going to go
Speaker 1: all right? Nine four one four one oh four three.
Speaker 1: Come morning, Bob, ah right question, Good morning Bob. So
Speaker 1: running out of fuel? Where did you run out fuel? Mate?
Speaker 3: I was in the UK on the eighth thirty long
Speaker 3: sweeping hill and I actually ran out of fuel halfway
Speaker 3: down the hill, but luckily there was a total petrol
Speaker 3: station right at the bottom, and I actually ran drifted
Speaker 3: into the into the petrol station and actually stopped beside
Speaker 3: the pumpel.
Speaker 1: It down there, using the momentum of the hill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a perfect place to run out. Actually, perfect timing. Really,
Speaker 1: that's great.
Speaker 3: For the last time.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Bob, thank you very much for cool. I
Speaker 1: have a good day. Let's got a Chris here, good morning? Sorry, hello,
Speaker 1: hello there, Chris. Chris, where did you run out of.
Speaker 3: Fuel in my driveway years ago?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Yep, I had plenty.
Speaker 5: I thought I had enough to get to school my
Speaker 5: kid to.
Speaker 4: School the next day, and no, I couldn't get out
Speaker 4: of my driveway.
Speaker 1: So what happened then? You couldn't even just start the car?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: And it was this the perfect time with the kids
Speaker 1: in the car, ready to go to school, to school.
Speaker 6: Run yeah, lift in this relationship, I pulled her over, Chris.
Speaker 1: You don't have to answer any questions until a lawyer
Speaker 1: is present. Okay, games over, Now it's going to Ray,
Speaker 1: come on and raid.
Speaker 2: Hello, Christian.
Speaker 1: How I am I I'm good? Ray? This is more
Speaker 1: like it. Ray, Where did you run out of field? Mate?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: I ran out in the Burnley Tunnel in a big
Speaker 2: game worth semi trialer many years ago.
Speaker 1: This is ruining, This is impacting thousands of people.
Speaker 2: If there was people killing up for bloody kilometers behind me,
Speaker 2: and when they were flowing gods and passed and there
Speaker 2: was many fists waving as.
Speaker 1: You should just hide at the bottom of the habit.
Speaker 1: You just walk off, leave it there, find another job,
Speaker 1: go into a witness protection And how do you fill
Speaker 1: up a big truck like that? Normally just a normal
Speaker 1: sort of car. You get the little can. What do
Speaker 1: you need to do?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: Funny that particular morning, because I've got we had four
Speaker 2: big fuel tanks on the truck. I rang up my employer,
Speaker 2: they rang up the local kill were feeler in Lebanon
Speaker 2: who brought me out of forty four gallons fuel and.
Speaker 1: We bigs nods and on that. It's actually a slide,
Speaker 1: a kid slide forty four gallons. That's huge.
Speaker 2: So that's how we we pumped it into the into
Speaker 2: the fuel tank and we managed to get it started
Speaker 2: and I yeah, we got down in So.
Speaker 1: How long were you blocking the Burnley Tunnel?
Speaker 5: Were stopping for an hour?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? And it was this in the morning
Speaker 1: or in the afternoon rush hour.
Speaker 3: Take out.
Speaker 1: Oh classic story that lansa plenty. This is the gino'connell
Speaker 1: show podcast right now. Your story is about where did
Speaker 1: you run out of fuel? This happened to my wife yesterday. Finally,
Speaker 1: years and years living in that red Can you live
Speaker 1: like that? The stress? Christian? You were asking can you
Speaker 1: push a car because you don't see it much these days?
Speaker 1: You don't because with automatic cars you can't do it,
Speaker 1: doesn't work. You can only do it with a manual transmission.
Speaker 1: Come on, Cherrard in Macedon, Christian, I was cruising to Gisbone.
Speaker 1: Range came up to zero, I had zero left and
Speaker 1: I knew I had about fifteen k to make to
Speaker 1: the sovo. Get this. I made it to the edge
Speaker 1: off the soo. How to go and buy a five
Speaker 1: liters can so I could drive eight meters to the park. Brad,
Speaker 1: that's great. Good morning Christian about work. This is a
Speaker 1: Natalie Common and Natalie, my mum is in her own words,
Speaker 1: a very strong, devout Christian. And on both occasions she
Speaker 1: has run out of petrol. She's been on a hill
Speaker 1: of sorts and rolled into a petrol station at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hill. She always says, the Lord works
Speaker 1: in mysterious ways. I just say it's dumb luck. I
Speaker 1: love that, Natalie Christian. Many years ago, my husband used
Speaker 1: to run out of petrol all the time. How can
Speaker 1: you do this all the time? One occasion, he ran
Speaker 1: out of petrol the end of the freeway. He wondered
Speaker 1: about three hundred meters away to a servo with a
Speaker 1: Jerry can. I waited patient in the car. I happened
Speaker 1: to look in the rear visionary and a notice that
Speaker 1: behind us very long cue. Right behind us there was
Speaker 1: a funeral procession in the hers. There was only one
Speaker 1: exit lane, and nowhere to go. I was so mortified.
Speaker 1: I slid down in my seat and waited until my
Speaker 1: now ex husbands broke up in that car. He just left.
Speaker 1: I could see he was just having a lovely long
Speaker 1: chat to the servo attendant. No rush whatsoever. The funeral
Speaker 1: directors were waving their hands around all over the place
Speaker 1: and booping their horns. I don't think they're allowed to
Speaker 1: beat their horns. I don't know if you. I've never
Speaker 1: forgotten the shame. That's from Michelle b Anchor. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning, be anchored, so running out of fuel.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 4: Oh, my husband bought a new boat and decided, nice day,
Speaker 4: go out on the bay. Wonderful launch the boat cruising along.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden they had a fuel The boat stopped.
Speaker 4: We had to paddle into shore. Finally made it to shore,
Speaker 4: missed all the rocks at the end of Oliver's Hill.
Speaker 4: They're on the point. I had to jump out with
Speaker 4: the fuel tank, walk up the hill and walk into
Speaker 4: a school as to use the phone so that my
Speaker 4: little brother could come and get me so I could
Speaker 4: get more fuel.
Speaker 1: So where do you go to get more fuel if
Speaker 1: the boat's run out?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: You have to put the oars in the water and
Speaker 4: paddle like crazy to get to shore.
Speaker 1: Bloody hell, what a nightmare. Never even thought about that.
Speaker 1: I wanted. That happens with jet skis as well, where
Speaker 1: suddenly they're hammering around them. Thank you very much the story,
Speaker 1: No worries.
Speaker 4: Have a great day.
Speaker 1: Let's got a Jason, Good morning, Jason, Good morning guys.
Speaker 5: Hey, my stories from a long time ago. Oh, I
Speaker 5: had a beat up old car, used to ride the
Speaker 5: wire a little bit, and they had a lot of
Speaker 5: money to leave it out the front one morning, I
Speaker 5: get up, it's gone, someone's stolen it. Funny thing years
Speaker 5: on they got around the corner because it ran out
Speaker 5: of field.
Speaker 1: I would have loved to see that idiot's face. Oh
Speaker 1: go believe the girl for crying out loud. How can
Speaker 1: they live like this? Jason, very good story, Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. Let's get new mate, Let's get a Deborah.
Speaker 1: Good morning Debs. Yep, yep, yep, yep, good morning, depths.
Speaker 5: Could you hear yes, I can hear now.
Speaker 1: You went out of fuel?
Speaker 3: Yes I did.
Speaker 2: I was in a Victorian police force at the highway
Speaker 2: patrol officer and run out of.
Speaker 1: Fuel in the police car.
Speaker 4: In the highway patrol car.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, you went after someone.
Speaker 3: No, no, no. We were up at the COVID lockdown
Speaker 3: at the Chica.
Speaker 2: We were driving to the Obama.
Speaker 4: Bridge to start our shift. I got a little bit
Speaker 4: out of the.
Speaker 2: Dilemma and run out of fuel.
Speaker 1: It could even happen to the police. I feel better now, well,
Speaker 1: that's all right.
Speaker 4: But the funniest thing was that the next morning got
Speaker 4: up and there was a Jerry canspitting on the top
Speaker 4: of my car.
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