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#1020 Peter Gray What are you doing!

Peter Gray

My brother in law worked at a garage part time and he his wife was expecting so he wanted to take some time off. He asked me if I would stand in for him, I know nothing about cars, I’ve never driven, but I took it on for him.

So one day, this guy pulls up in a what I think was a Cresta. He tells me 4 gallons of Esso Golden and he goes off to pay for it. I see he’s opened the hole ready for the pump so I put the pump in. He comes back shouting at me “what are you doing!”, so I say “I’m filling your tank with petrol”. He said “your flooding my xxxxx boot, that’s where my light fell off. I had to pay for the petrol, but I imagine he dined out on the story.