D'oh! A new first...

After 'Movie Night' concluded tonight (a double feature, BTW, with the
REAL "Memphis Belle" World War II documentary film, and "One Six Right"
-- the absolutely terrific movie about Van Nuys airport, released last
fall) -- one of our guests for the night, a pipeline pilot, asked to
borrow our courtesy van to fetch a bite to eat.

He came back in a couple of minutes later, to report that the battery
was dead, and that he had found the key turned to the "on" position.
None of us could figure out why anyone would do that, when it suddenly
dawned on me...

....I had moved the van back three feet to mow the grass. The front
bumper was overhanging the lawn, and I only needed to move it a bit.
However, I didn't want to just start it and stop it right away, cuz it
hadn't been run in a week, so I left it to warm up, and resumed mowing
the lawn.

That was last week, Friday. Today is Tuesday.

It had a full tank. 30 U.S. gallons...

:-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
After 'Movie Night' concluded tonight (a double feature, BTW, with the
REAL "Memphis Belle" World War II documentary film, and "One Six Right"
-- the absolutely terrific movie about Van Nuys airport, released last
fall) -- one of our guests for the night, a pipeline pilot, asked to
borrow our courtesy van to fetch a bite to eat.

He came back in a couple of minutes later, to report that the battery
was dead, and that he had found the key turned to the "on" position.
None of us could figure out why anyone would do that, when it suddenly
dawned on me...

...I had moved the van back three feet to mow the grass. The front
bumper was overhanging the lawn, and I only needed to move it a bit.
However, I didn't want to just start it and stop it right away, cuz it
hadn't been run in a week, so I left it to warm up, and resumed mowing
the lawn.

That was last week, Friday. Today is Tuesday.

It had a full tank. 30 U.S. gallons...

:-(
--



Errrr... Remind me never to fly with you!

Guess that says good things about the crime rate in Iowa City though...




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Guess that says good things about the crime rate in Iowa City though...

That's EXACTLY what the pipeline pilot said. Anywhere else in America,
the van would have been stolen long before it ran out of gas...

(We actually "lost" the van once, when a transient pilot left it at the
airport, and we didn't notice for a day or two. Finally, when someone
else needed it, we realized that NO ONE knew where it was! A few
frantic phone calls tracked it down... Only in Iowa! :-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:


(We actually "lost" the van once, when a transient pilot left it at the
airport, and we didn't notice for a day or two. Finally, when someone
else needed it, we realized that NO ONE knew where it was! A few
frantic phone calls tracked it down... Only in Iowa! :-)

Only in Iowa? Not hardly. Most of the western US would qualify.

"Newps" wrote in message ...
Only in Iowa? Not hardly. Most of the western US would qualify.

I am of the assumption that the statement "Only in Iowa" would mean
that the car had not actually been stolen but merely misplaced.

Which if the case, it would then disqualify all major US cities.
With no distinction between Western or Eastern, Northern or
Southern cities.

David - KONT, KSWF, KORL, KGMU, KGPM, KWBW, KHWO

Jay Honeck wrote:
After 'Movie Night' concluded tonight (a double feature, BTW, with the
REAL "Memphis Belle" World War II documentary film, and "One Six Right"
-- the absolutely terrific movie about Van Nuys airport, released last
fall) -- one of our guests for the night, a pipeline pilot, asked to
borrow our courtesy van to fetch a bite to eat.

He came back in a couple of minutes later, to report that the battery
was dead, and that he had found the key turned to the "on" position.
None of us could figure out why anyone would do that, when it suddenly
dawned on me...

...I had moved the van back three feet to mow the grass. The front
bumper was overhanging the lawn, and I only needed to move it a bit.
However, I didn't want to just start it and stop it right away, cuz it
hadn't been run in a week, so I left it to warm up, and resumed mowing
the lawn.

That was last week, Friday. Today is Tuesday.

It had a full tank. 30 U.S. gallons...

:-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

LOL, That's the first for you? I do that all the time. I don't light
turning the engine off, prefer to let it idle while I run in to 7-11 or
Dunkin Donuts or something, most times my gas is touching 'E' ( 'E'
means enough right?) g

My runabout is a stickshift and kids on three different occasions tried
to steal it while I'minside the store only to find out that they don't
know what the third pedal is for.

Mostly I leaving lights on and the baterry is drained.

The Monk

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
That was last week, Friday. Today is Tuesday.

It had a full tank. 30 U.S. gallons...


$75 - Ouch!

http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/myths/idling.html
"Idling for 1 hour burns nearly 1 gallon of gasoline."

"For every two minutes a car is idling, it uses about the same amount of
fuel it takes to go about one mile."

So that van ran for 30 hours and nobody reported it?

Good muffler.


Montblack
http://www.twincitiesgasprices.com/index.aspx

Montblack wrote:
("Jay Honeck" wrote)
That was last week, Friday. Today is Tuesday.

It had a full tank. 30 U.S. gallons...


$75 - Ouch!

I don't know where you are, Mont, but in Los Angeles 87 octane is
running $3.30-$3.50/ US Gal. right now.

("Richard Riley" wrote)
It had a full tank. 30 U.S. gallons...

$75 - Ouch!

I don't know where you are, Mont, but in Los Angeles 87 octane is running
$3.30-$3.50/ US Gal. right now.


Minnesota - Twin Cities - Anoka County - Blaine
http://www.twincitiesgasprices.com/index.aspx
Twin Cities gas prices (high and low).
$2.57/Gallon


Montblack - one mile from the Upper Mississippi River
45° 08' 38.27" N 93° 15' 39.64" W

[Open house May 20 & 21]
(ANE) Anoka County-Blaine Airport
10 miles [north] of Downtown Minneapolis
18 miles [north] of M/SP International Airport. (@ 12 O'Clock)

"Mel Brooks is Jewish?" - Homer Simpson

Richard Riley wrote:
I don't know where you are, Mont, but in Los Angeles 87 octane is
running $3.30-$3.50/ US Gal. right now.


$2.54 this morning in South Carolina.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE