Sometimes Common Sense Evades Us All....

Or Does it?

Another Weekend where I headed on up to the Loops has passed. (I'm starting to see a recurring theme here). As nice as it was, I was tuckered out from my drive home & the jaunty hike in the country or at least that's what Furniture Man calls it. I call it randomly stopping the car & just hoofing it up the hillside... (toh-MAY-toes... toh-MAH-tos.)

As I was leaving town I thought it best that I get a coffee and seeing as the gas was bordering on empty, it was also a good idea to stop at a gas station. Before hitting the highway, I do pass about 3 from his place... but noooooo. I wanted the petro canada as I like the store they have there .... BUT WAIT! Why have gas station coffee when you can have Starbucks? So into the strip mall, I turn.

After saying that the worst tasting coffee EVER was fine, I got back in my car to head home... The petro canada should have been the very next exit... except it's not & am trying to figure why am I seeing signs for Vernon. Yesss, DUMB ASS! You didn't want highway NORTH... THAT was yesterday. We're going back to Vancouver... We want SOUTH.... so I turn around (I'm still in town, just a little back tracked)... OK... so NOW I am now in the right direction and am scooting along & see the strip mall where I stopped for coffee.... and WOOSH... THERE goes the petro Canada exit.

Did I mention that this was pretty much the last exit before you leave Kamloops?... So it is about here is where I'm REALLY watching the gas tank and I'm trying to guage if I have enough gas to make it to Merrit (half hour to 45 minutes .. ok.. so for normal people 45 minutes to an hour).... my guess is no as the car burns through it quickly and well, I don't know how to drive under 130km/hr.

So I'm REALLY hoping there is an exit and in case you were wondering, the scale station for trucks isn't it.... So I gave them a polite wave & continued through....

Ok... so my next option is to drive across the grassy dipped meridian. Seeing as I had a rental car, I didn't really give a crap about it... Did I mention that it's after 7pm and night fall has encroached? So my vision isn't the best... On the high beams go. About now, I'm pissing everyone off. I'm doing about 75 on a 110 speed limit & every oncoming car is being blinded... BUT DAMN IT... I'm looking for one of those emergency thru roads... Luckily enough for me it didn't take me long to find one... Well, I had passed one already which is what gave me the idea in the first place... so when I saw the second... I had no problem to come to a complete stop, reversing & booting it through as my gas light had come on and with every passing second, I was getting further away from Kamloops.

I really didn't want to have to make an embaressing call to Furniture Man asking him to bring me some gas as I did mention I had passed numerous stations earlier... but NOOOOO .... I wanted the Petro Can. Even though I was so eager to burn it back to town to fill up, I didn't want to also burn through the gas. So about now, I'm singing along to the music to keep me calm and not in a good melodic tone. No, I'm pretty sure I was giving off some creepy, high pitched nerveous noise.

So about half an hour after I initially left FM's place, I was finally on my way home. A good three and a tich hours later was safely in my bed... (I told you... I speed!)