Let's start with a bad example, hopefully others have some better ones than this..
So, today I'd planned a mini roadtrip up to @JMP 's to get a Scared Stiff - it was meant to be a nice outing, along with the kids (even hired a 3 seater van so they could both come
)....but it turned into a bit of a nightmare.
This started at around 13:20 today, when I was making my way to the bank to get the cash out for the pin. When I got a call from my mum's care-home, not because there was any problem with my fully-demented mum who they look after, but because my semi-demented dad who was visiting her had scraped his his car along the side of one of their staff's cars on the way out without noticing and driven off...and so started a downwards spiral. Dealing with that meant I was 15 mins late getting the cash out, which meant I was 15 mins picking up the hire van, which meant I was 15 mins late collecting my kids from school. Blood pressure rising.
But anyway, I get to the school and pick up the kids. But as I was reversing out of the car parking space, I hear and feel a bump..wtf? I'd turned on the parking sensors when I picked the van up (obviously no rear view mirror, and you can see ****-all directly behind you through the side mirrors), what was happening? So it seems that the parking sensors switch themselves off automatically for some reason when you turn the engine off. Nice feature. Any how, minor bump, checked it out, no marks, all good with the mum that the other car belonged to, so finally the road trip gets underway
No big deal getting to @JMP's, and collect a really nice SS (the one redeeming feature of this sorry tale), but as we're loading it, @JMP noticed a large puddle of oil under the van, which was getting larger...sigh. But with it only being 1.5 hours back to my place, and the oil light not yet on, I decided to just make a dash for it (not my van after all). As we head home, I'm hoping the van is going to make it, as smoke billows embarrassingly from us whenever we stop at traffic lights, when my phone runs out of charge...so now if it does break down, we're even more ****ed. Which means that I daren't stop to get the kids the Maccy D's they've been promised, so they both start to kickoff, increasing my blood pressure some more
.
But fortunately, in the end, we get to within 5 miles of home before the oil light starts flickering on, and make it all the way home without the engine seizing up. phew. Time for a beer.
After unloading, then ditching the van in my field so as not to cover my drive in oil, I decided to open the bonnet and have another look to see if I could work out what the problem was - and that's when I noticed....the total ****-bags nobended **** munching **** features of a **** at Enterprise who'd topped the oil up last, had left the oil filler cap resting on the bonnet lip instead of attached the to the hole where the oil goes - the majority of the oil now being laid in a trail between my place and @JMP's, and the remainder in the van's engine bay.
Time for a game on my new Scared Stiff now...
So, today I'd planned a mini roadtrip up to @JMP 's to get a Scared Stiff - it was meant to be a nice outing, along with the kids (even hired a 3 seater van so they could both come
)....but it turned into a bit of a nightmare.This started at around 13:20 today, when I was making my way to the bank to get the cash out for the pin. When I got a call from my mum's care-home, not because there was any problem with my fully-demented mum who they look after, but because my semi-demented dad who was visiting her had scraped his his car along the side of one of their staff's cars on the way out without noticing and driven off...and so started a downwards spiral. Dealing with that meant I was 15 mins late getting the cash out, which meant I was 15 mins picking up the hire van, which meant I was 15 mins late collecting my kids from school. Blood pressure rising.
But anyway, I get to the school and pick up the kids. But as I was reversing out of the car parking space, I hear and feel a bump..wtf? I'd turned on the parking sensors when I picked the van up (obviously no rear view mirror, and you can see ****-all directly behind you through the side mirrors), what was happening? So it seems that the parking sensors switch themselves off automatically for some reason when you turn the engine off. Nice feature. Any how, minor bump, checked it out, no marks, all good with the mum that the other car belonged to, so finally the road trip gets underway
No big deal getting to @JMP's, and collect a really nice SS (the one redeeming feature of this sorry tale), but as we're loading it, @JMP noticed a large puddle of oil under the van, which was getting larger...sigh. But with it only being 1.5 hours back to my place, and the oil light not yet on, I decided to just make a dash for it (not my van after all). As we head home, I'm hoping the van is going to make it, as smoke billows embarrassingly from us whenever we stop at traffic lights, when my phone runs out of charge...so now if it does break down, we're even more ****ed. Which means that I daren't stop to get the kids the Maccy D's they've been promised, so they both start to kickoff, increasing my blood pressure some more
. But fortunately, in the end, we get to within 5 miles of home before the oil light starts flickering on, and make it all the way home without the engine seizing up. phew. Time for a beer.
After unloading, then ditching the van in my field so as not to cover my drive in oil, I decided to open the bonnet and have another look to see if I could work out what the problem was - and that's when I noticed....the total ****-bags nobended **** munching **** features of a **** at Enterprise who'd topped the oil up last, had left the oil filler cap resting on the bonnet lip instead of attached the to the hole where the oil goes - the majority of the oil now being laid in a trail between my place and @JMP's, and the remainder in the van's engine bay.
Time for a game on my new Scared Stiff now...
And yup, they will just need to top it up with oil and actually replace the cap this time, but then also get the engine bay professionally cleaned 'cos it's an absolute state...
Enterprise had better make it up to you (and your kids), felt right sorry for your daughter in tears cos. she was tired and hungry and couldn't go to Maccy D's anymore. Glad to hear you got home anyway, let Enterprise clean up the mess under the bonnet. 
