After listening to the podcast What You Don't Know By Lulu Wang I was able to think about my own life and find a moment in my life where a choice I made negatively impacted me. In my post I compose a past scene in first person point of view.
Driving down the street with my windows down as the cold fall night wind blew outside. It was 11 o’clock and my gas tank light was blinking 10 miles till empty. I was exhausted after finishing a double shift at work and knew that home was only 3 miles and I could wait to fill my tank in the morning. Being as tired as I was i forgot about my plan to wait to fill my tank till the morning and found myself pulling into the gas station up the road from my house. As an owner of a fairly brand new drivers license I had only filled my tank a few times before. Realizing I had no cash I took out my debit card and quickly swiped it trying to hurry since I couldn’t wait to go home take a shower and go to bed. I removed the nozzle from the stand and began to place it into my gas tank realizing it wasn't fitting into it. As tired as I was I showed it into the gas tank and started to fill my car up. After about 5$ into filling my tank I looked down and took a good look to quickly realize that the nozzle was green which I had never seen before. I looked on the stand where I took the nozzle out and frantically saw that that type of gas was different then the usual gas and was labeled “Diesel”. I ripped it out of the tank and put it back on the stand. I started google what happens if you put diesel into a normal car tank and the answers that were popping up were not what I wanted to hear. I began to not feel tired anymore and now began to feel scared and nervous about what I had just done. Knowing how mad my parents would be after finding out how serious putting diesel into a normal gas tank was I resorting to my last option of calling my brother. He arrived as soon as he could and warned me not to start my car since the diesel would run through the car and ruin the engine that quick. He proceeded to put my car into neutral without turning it on and pushing it to the side where luckily that part of the gas station was also an auto shop. I started to feel relieved that I didn’t ruin the car completely and could leave it overnight and call to get it looked at in the morning. Knowing I had no gas and had to work a double I should have made sure I had gas beforehand or waited till the next day but I know now for sure to make sure I always have gas and never wait till im too tired or last minute.
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10/1/2018 07:21:40 pm
Hey Nicole,
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10/1/2018 07:30:10 pm
I have never heard of this happening before, this is very informative. I like how it begins very calm, but you quickly change the scene to something unexpected.
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Taylor Dannaker
10/1/2018 07:36:24 pm
Good thing you looked it up. I would have probably just started my car and drove away.
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Nymahlee
10/8/2018 07:22:03 pm
We all get so tired and do crazy things, I really enjoyed your story
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Joanna
10/9/2018 11:59:15 am
I can really relate to making silly decisions because of how tired I was. You had a really good build up to the ending, and I'm glad everything was fine tho!
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