I stopped for petrol before heading back home from a day out in Mildura. The bowsers that I needed for the right hand side of the car were all in use so I decided to go to the left side of the car and bring the hose across the boot of the car. I parked and got out, realized that I was too far away from the bowser, got back in, started the car, pulled forward, reversed back again, got out and was still further out than I really wanted to be. I was trying to decide whether to have another go at getting closer when a guy from the service station who had been cleaning at one of the other bowsers came across.
Here let me he offered and picked up the petrol hose. Oh thank you. I looked around as I opened the petrol cap, everyone else seemed to be filling their own tanks. I felt a little awkward. You’d never guess that I drive a truck I waffled needlessly. He smiled at me as he finished filling my tank and hung up the hose. Thanks I said again. Now all you have to do is just pop inside and pay for it. Oh what your not going to pay for it as well? I asked feeling a little more relaxed. His good deed done he walked back to his job cleaning at the bowser.
I like to think of him as a good Samaritan but maybe a blonde (yes I was blonde at the time) in a little orange car reversing around petrol bowsers was just too much stress for this man to handle.
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