Well after getting insurance on the car and checking with the DMV i drove it to get an inspection don't at a local garage. I arrive there and they start looking over the car, guy comes out and says, oh that thing is over 35yrs old, you don't need a Safety Inspection done at all. Just go to the DMV and tag it. So happy with that news I drive to the DMV I was at last month only to find that it had shut down, again. Had to drive across town to the new address by the hospital. Now this in itself didn't present any issues, a light rain had started falling and the car performed fine. I pull up at the last major intersection in the right lane to go straight ahead and the engine dies on me. I forgot I had only put 4 gallons in the damned thing a few days before. I'm too busy watching traffic and listening for issues etc to look at the gas gauge. So there I am in the middle of what feels like peak hour traffic and I called the wife to bring a gas can of gas. The cops show up and are very gracious, it's been 15mins since I called her and I tell them she will be another 10 to 15 away so we wait. He is by himself and we aren't pushing the thing. 20mins later no sign of the wife. So gave her a call and she hasn't left yet but is now. Ugh. So a second cop car comes and shuts the intersection down while this one cop pushes and I steer across the road and into the drive way of the shopping center. Some of it an uphill grade, slight but Im sure the poor guy was panting. It was still raining too. After they left I let my wife know where I was and only then is she leaving to come to me. I waited another 40mins after that. Damn, what an embarrassment. The cops were good though and I am certainly glad of that. Tipping my hat to the Greenville Police.
