So I'm on my way to school this morning listening to "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners and putting on a lightshow with my Fire & Ice for the guys behind me when I get stuck in a long line of cars doing like 20 mph (they were stuck behind some school buses) in a 45 zone, so I pull down a side road which is a short-cut to school in a way and about 1/2 mile down it, my engine starts to sputter and lag. I shift into neutral and it runs, then I go back into 2nd and when I reach higher RPM's it sputters again so I immediately pull over and shut her down before I run the gas lines dry. I knew I was outta gas, but I was hopin I could at least make it to school and then after school stop by work and pick up my $400 paycheck. So I walk the 1/2 mile back to the main road hoping to see someone I knew. No luck, so I sit for a minute pondering if I should wait or start walking the 5 miles to school. So I start walking and about 300 yards down I see a cop pulling out of his yard. I start waving and running and so he takes me back to my truck (he runs my plates to make sure the truck wasn't stolen, lol. I didn't know what he was talking about with those ten-codes until I heard: "Unit 23, vehicle Echo Six Five, Five Yankee India is clear." and then I smiled thinking he didn't trust it was my truck.) and I get my books and we ride to school, with me in the back seat. It was kinda cool but kinda embarrassing to have your friends see you riding up to school in the back seat of a Crown Vic. So now I dunno what I'm going to do. I have to make 3 trips into down now and even then I'll have my sis's car (to get gas and then my truck) but then how am I supposed to drive both vehicles home? LOL. Funny day. Still have another four hours until I see by baby. I hope the guy's yard that I parked in dosen't mess with my truck! Or even worse, calls a tow company!

 

That's easy just call the COP back, I bet he'll pick you up again

 

hah well u r lucky the cops in your town even pikc u up in my town the cops just keep riding by and act like they never say really great cops in this town
hah what a joke

 

I would have got a ticket for loitering or jay-walking if I would have to do something like that

 

Well I'm back and my baby is outside sleeping with a full tank of 87 in her belly! Never shall I do that again!

 

"'Come on Eileen"??? Are you serious?

 

Come on Eileen is a great song. It's sung it all the time downtown Orlando. Don't know half the words, but in a drunken stupor who cares.

 

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Aside from us all knowing about this poor guy running out of gas, "Come On Eileen" and it's social value justifies why anyone would even care to tell the world that he ran out of gas.


"'Come on Eileen"

It conjures up images of a more innocent time. The smooth transition from the days of disco to the days of acid wash outfits & mullet hair cuts. When hot babes wore Jordache, drank Tab Cola, and drove Renault LeCars. When unprotected sex and **** were the social norm. When the nation was kicking the smack habit with lines at the methadone clinic, and crack cocaine was far off in the horizon and not yet invented.

 

Fifty, my hat's off to you!!

PERFECT!

Well Done!!