i am an idiot

[mini mansell]

Waking early i carefully packed my van for a gig today.
It was less than 5 miles from my home so i already have a smile on my face,
i can already feel it, its going to be a good one.

My van shows its about to need fuel so i pull into a local filling station
and in goes 35 quid. (50 dollars)

thats when it dawns upon me,

my CAR needs DIESEL. my VAN needs PETROL

i had just put 35 quid of diesel into a petrol van.

so bang goes the feeling of wellness.
bang goes a nice gig
bang does a day if my life
bang goes almost £200 plus the loss of payment for the gig.


i learned a valuable lesson today.

pay more attention to the little things.

[le pire]

I did the same thing to our van when I was touring the UK a few years ago...

Except I put in £60.



étienne

[Doctor Eric]

My circus' first tour. We are driving a 30 year-old 35' English touring coach that we bought for a thousand dollars (and, which we found out later, had actually been Knighted by the queen, as it was once a part of a royal fleet). We're in Montana, the !@#?in' steep part. The air brakes lose pressure every 30 seconds, it was a great time for me to learn how to downshift. The circus is dead broke, I financed the tour by convincing two trust fund kids to come along and "find themselves." So I get one of the snivelling little art-fags to fill up the bus with mommy's credit card, which takes awhile, being as he didn't even know you were ALLOWED to pump your own gas, but, eventually, he decides to coalesce, or coexist, or become co-dependent, whatever word I'm looking for. The rest of us go inside to feast on cold 99 cent hot dogs, whilst stuffing our pockets with more 99 cent hot dogs, and when we come out he's just finishing up. Thank god I took that last wiener to go, because I notice just as he's struggling to hang up the hose (and wondering where the attendant with the towels and soap is) that he's just completed the incredible stunt of filling the tank with high grade unleaded. The expensive kind. It's an honest mistake, if you're in invertebrate sea creature, with a lack of visual organs to clue you in on your error by pointing out the ginormous, hulking, ancient, diesel-powered !@#?ing BUS that you are explicitly ejaculating load after load of unleaded fuel into. Please keep in mind that the tank on this thing is approximately 115% larger than the belly of Jonah's Whale, and that I, in a good mood, am constantly verging on mass homicide with a Garden Weasel (trademark) as it is. But, I acted as a true gentleman and diplomat. I even cut the proper length of hose, and helped him move the 50-gallon barrell, so graciously supplied by our snickering, pimple-faced fuel oasis hosts. And then I sat patiently, smiling as I watched him suck EVERY god-damned gallon out of that beast, and refill the entire thing with diesel (with mommy's credit card again, of course), and graciously enjoyed the five-star feast (montana equivilent of 5-star = a broken down rip-off of Chuck E. Cheese), he was forced to provide afterwards. All in all, every one was happy, including the afore-mentioned station clerks, who decided that nothing would go better with that 50-gallon drum full of high-octane, than a keg of beer, a few good friends, a rock quarry, and a match or two. I'm sure it was a sight to be seen, and talked about in Montana folklore for generations to come.

Well, that took awhile, but hopefully Mini, you feel slightly less stupid now. Remember: there is always a bigger idiot somewhere, and odds are he's driving.

The wrong way.

In your lane.

[Minnie Maniac]

Hi Mini,

Guess what? Mason reckons you can drive a petrol van on diesel no worries, they just run a bit rougher ie blow lots of smoke. It is the other way around you can't do. You can also run it on a mix so you could have put more petrol in. It could have been worse, you could have put water in! Lol. Believe me he would know, so there's another lesson, next time just drive.

How's life? We are in München, it's raining.

Toni aka Minnie Maniac (your mini me)

[$cottbox]

Frig

Man thats a kicker to the junk,,,friggin sounds like somethin I'd do,,,I'm always doin right good when I do big things but when I'm doin the little things as u said,,I just dont have the right amount of focus on the situation,,,for exampleIm driving to do a gig,,,I forget my equipment for my gig ,,,the face should express what I was feelin,,,but just put it past you as I would and look at yur goals and stay positive,,,cause in the end negativity gets you no where