My dumb ass.
I woke up late and needed to take my ambulance out on its daily run. I warmed it up, got in and hit the road.
So I enter the freeway and start heading over the fremont bridge which goes over the river to downtown. I hate that bridge because of those things. I hate heights, I hate large bodies of water, I don't trust bridges, and freeways are chaotic.
I get in the lane that i need to be in, and suddenly-no pressure. I pull to the right and keep going- slower, and slower, and slower.
Finally I pull all the way to the shoulder. "This cant be happening" i think. " I cant be running out of gas on the freeway bridge over the river"
I turn the generator off and the engine off and i sit there for a minute. Then I start it again. It works! Then doesn't. I coast 30 feet forward into the middle of the bridge. I try this again several more times. Nothing.
I pick up my cell phone and call my girlfriend. Straight to voicemail. I call again and again and again. Nothing. Then I call the house line, again and again and again. No one answers. I call my roomate. Doesn't answer. What the hell? I don't have triple a because I'm a business, and they don't do that kind of thing.
I send a text message to an old housemate. SHE RESPONDS! "I'll be right there with a gas can," she says. I tell her I'm afraid of heights so I can't get out of the car, even if she brings a gas can, I wouldn't be able to put it in.
So I'm sitting on the bridge that is really high above the water. Its swaying. I feel like I want to puke but I'm suprisingly calm considering. Everytime a truck goes by my vehicle rocks back and forth.
Suddenly behind me are flashing lights of a truck. A guy gets out and walks up to the window " I got a call to check on you" he says. He is very serious.
"I ran out of gas" I say " and I'm afraid of heights"
and that's when i lose it.
"Ok stay in the vehicle ma'am."
He proceeds to walk into the traffic lane and fill the tank with gas.
"try it now" he says
nothing.
"ok, now"
nothing.
my friend opens the door "don't worry," she says " this bridge has been here for a really long time, it's not going anywhere"
"now"
nothing.
"ok lift the hood"
he tinkers with something.
"try it now"
It works.
"now get off this bridge" he says, and I do.
So I enter the freeway and start heading over the fremont bridge which goes over the river to downtown. I hate that bridge because of those things. I hate heights, I hate large bodies of water, I don't trust bridges, and freeways are chaotic.
I get in the lane that i need to be in, and suddenly-no pressure. I pull to the right and keep going- slower, and slower, and slower.
Finally I pull all the way to the shoulder. "This cant be happening" i think. " I cant be running out of gas on the freeway bridge over the river"
I turn the generator off and the engine off and i sit there for a minute. Then I start it again. It works! Then doesn't. I coast 30 feet forward into the middle of the bridge. I try this again several more times. Nothing.
I pick up my cell phone and call my girlfriend. Straight to voicemail. I call again and again and again. Nothing. Then I call the house line, again and again and again. No one answers. I call my roomate. Doesn't answer. What the hell? I don't have triple a because I'm a business, and they don't do that kind of thing.
I send a text message to an old housemate. SHE RESPONDS! "I'll be right there with a gas can," she says. I tell her I'm afraid of heights so I can't get out of the car, even if she brings a gas can, I wouldn't be able to put it in.
So I'm sitting on the bridge that is really high above the water. Its swaying. I feel like I want to puke but I'm suprisingly calm considering. Everytime a truck goes by my vehicle rocks back and forth.
Suddenly behind me are flashing lights of a truck. A guy gets out and walks up to the window " I got a call to check on you" he says. He is very serious.
"I ran out of gas" I say " and I'm afraid of heights"
and that's when i lose it.
"Ok stay in the vehicle ma'am."
He proceeds to walk into the traffic lane and fill the tank with gas.
"try it now" he says
nothing.
"ok, now"
nothing.
my friend opens the door "don't worry," she says " this bridge has been here for a really long time, it's not going anywhere"
"now"
nothing.
"ok lift the hood"
he tinkers with something.
"try it now"
It works.
"now get off this bridge" he says, and I do.