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Sara Cammeresi

Gas v diesel —

One funny thing I should mention from the motor trip back up from my removed estate in Champaign to my newly acquired lands in Lilydale happened just an hour or so into the trip.

We were barrelling westward on I-74 in our 15-foot lorry with car towed behind, and I was mentally considering the expense of fueling our transport. An important question then thundered to the front of my consciousness:

Me. Dearest Sara, thinkest thou that thy lorry requires gas or diesel?
Sara. Mine Sidney, I know not, and the fuel gage telleth me naught. Pray, when we next stop, perchance an honourable marking at the tank shall revealeth thine answer.

At the next rest stop, the tank was consulted, but it answered with a stony silence.

Upon this dismal realisation, I decided to ring the depot from which we had obtained the lorry to enquire as to the flavour of petrol our beast required. A short conversation on my mobile later, we understood that it `probably' used gas.

So the originating station said `probably gas,' and my ear trained on the sound of the engine said `probably gas,' but I was in a bit of discomfort over the certainty of this probabilistic determination. A short time later, we stopped again, checked the towing apparatus to ensure my car was still secure, and I went inside the rest stop building to visit the loo.

Unbeknownst to me, Sara meanwhile saw a nearby driver of an articulated lorry. She hailed him, and enquired as to whether he could tell the difference between a truck that used gas or diesel. This honourable gentleman replied in the affirmative, and he proceeded to demonstrate this skill by removing the cap over the fuel tank, placing his nose thereover, sniffing a few times, and pronouncing our answer: It definitely took gas.

(He then encouraged her to have a sniff of both gas and diesel so that she could perceive the difference herself.)

posted by Sid at 13.44 / 822 in Humourous Stories     [ Comments: 1 ]