b9 wrote:
i have had quite an arduous day. it was my experience at the service station in a yokel place called "penrith" that threw me off the rails.
i went there to buy petrol and get the car washed. i drove toward a petrol bowser and then i saw that all the handles were out of order, so i tried to reverse and a man blew his horn at me because he was on my tail. i backed back anyway and he got out of the way (just in time)and i was disgruntled at him and i drove to a working bowser and i pressed the preset button for $30 and it did not work. so i decided to type in 3-0 manually (what an inconvenience) and the thing got stuck on just 3, so it thought i wanted $3 of petrol and was going to shut me off when that amount entered my tank.
i pressed the "clear" button over and over, and i got rather irate and it finally cleared, and then i pressed the $30 preset button again, and again it did not work. so then i tried to press the separate numbers "3" and "0" again and it got stuck on "3"and so i resigned myself to buying only $3 worth of petrol because i was about to become very cranky indeed if the process continued.
when i went inside to pay, i complained about the preset buttons and she said something whatever and i got a $15 car wash ticket for the car wash they had around the back.
i was listening to a radio broadcast on the abc about some exiting new viruses and it came time for me to drive into the carwash. i then realized my car has no button for the antenna and i had to switch the radio off for it to go down ! ! !
i was getting to the point of having to apply my mental "emergency brakes", but i complied, and switched the radio off, and proceeded through to the carwash and waited forever while the brushes and rollers and things scrubbed my car, and when it was over, i looked up and noticed a hose nozzle that was still spraying water and my blow dry was about to commence,and i became anxious that this hose nozzle would ruin the procedure.
i was correct!! ! the damned hose nozzle was situated behind the blower, and as the blower made it's final sweep back to the front of my car, the hose nozzle followed and sprayed my car again with water ! ! ! !.
i leapt out of my car (after i drove it out of the carwash) and i was going to confront the person in the shop about it, but i had visions of becoming too excited so i got back in my car and drove away and called it a day.
You poor thing. You had a bad day.
Sounds like the service station from hell
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