Yesterday morning I left early to take Juella to work. It was her first day at Target. I didn't know the car was just about out of gas when I left. I was running late already so I couldn't stop to get gas. I just prayed that we make it to Target on time. Well, I got to her place, went in to get her, and we were getting ready to leave. THE CAR WON'T START!!! I didn't know what to do. Juella didn't know what to do. Then I told her we need to push the car out of the space since we were at an uphill slant, a slight one. So we pushed it out and the car started. For some reason the car thinks it's out of gas when there's actually about 5 gallons still in there. So we were off to Target. On the way out of the parking lot, the car stopped!!! I looked forward to the rest of the way out Central, it was a slight uphill and there was no way we're going to get to Central if the car starts up again. Now the car won't even start. This guy was on his way to work and I told him our dilemma. He said he was going to be late, and he worked at the gas station just down the street. I asked if they have a gas can we can use, he said no. It would cost us about $7 to get one. So then I asked if he had time to take Juella to work but he said he was late. So he left and there we were trying to figure out what to do. So I told Juella to help me push the car back down a ways and see if the car will start. The hard part was getting over those speed humps. But we were able to get the car down to a flat area and the car started up. I said we'll have to go out the other exit. Juella said that it might be locked because they lock it every night. I took my chances and it was open. In the meantime that guy came back and told us that his boss said it was ok that he can take Juella to work but I told him it was ok since we got the car going. I was headed to the gas station and we had one more uphill area to go over and we prayed the car would get over that little hill. And it did. I got some gas and sped on down to Target. We got her there in time. Now I was on my way to get my sister as she wanted to go shopping. I had to go back to get Juella at noon as she had to be at Coachhouse Gifts at 1 PM. So here I am doing all this driving with my sister and didn't realize I was about out of gas again!! I didn't put much in the first time as I needed to get her to work. I was taking my sister home when I realized the car wanted to stop. I told the car to please make it to Montgomery and it's all downhill from there. I tried to think of streets to go on but my mind wasn't in the mood to think. We did make it to Montgomery and I coasted down to Sam's Club. Before getting there I had to deal with the freeway!!! There's a big hill that goes over the freeway!!! Now what do I do?? Well, the light was red for us, so I stayed down on the flat part until the light changed. I said we're going to have to speed up, hope no one gets in front of us (there was a huge space between me and the car in front of me), otherwise the car will die out and I will just die because I don't know what to do. Well, we made it over and I told the car it's downhill to Sam's Club. But it wasn't!! The car almost died as I turned onto Renaissance, it's a big curve and the car is thinking it's out of gas. It barely made it to the downhill slope. It was downhill all the way to Sam's Club. We got the gas and were on our merry way. I took my sister home, went back for my niece and took her to work at the mall. This morning I had to take her back to Target. She said, "don't forget to check to see if you have gas!!" I did have enough to take her, well, more than enough since I filled the tank up yesterday.
I hope to not run into anything like that again!!
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