Parafin Shower (by sarah)
Today has been stupidly hectic starting with dropping Jean off at nursery via convoys of cars due to the amount of road works going on enroute. Then to the shopping for food as I had forgotten several essentials such as more musili etc... Then home in time to discuess stuff with electricians and tunnel repairers, make lunch, I did start making dinner but somehow got distracted.
Then off to Stayte Services in Stroud to get our gas canisters refilled which was kinda urgant as at the moment its the only heating the Bakery has. i asked Barbara if she wanted anything and she said she'd like some parrafin from the Green Shop as they sell it 'loose' ie you can refill your own canister. So off we went - and after asking some confused people in the actual shop found that it was in the fuel part and was infact in the pump stand with the red diesal. This was where things really started to go wronge!
I don't drive therefore I do not use the pumps and therefore I managed to cover Dad in parafin getting the pump down from its cradle - it was alot heavier than I was expecting and I had trouble holding it. Still that wasn't too bad and we poked it into the canister and I squeezed the trigger and it thrummed to life - then I was fretting that I wouldnt know when it was full but Dad reconned it would have an automatic cut off - and sure enough it went thunk.
So....
I pulled it out of the canister and it was still glugging parafin - all over dad and all over the pump!
On top of that Dad had managed to park in the car lot where they where selling cars instead of in the shops car park and he dissappeared whilst I went to pay. I couldn't use my card as the transaction was under a fiver but I was apound short in cash so I had to leave the shop to track dad down. Grudgingly he gave me the quid and then it turned out I did have enough and now had about a pounds worth too much - this was becuase the lady had accidently told me 3 instead of 2 when I first went in as the sun was shinning on the display that told her how much too charge!
They let dad try and clean himself up in their toliets and then we had to chuck sand in the puddles of parafin and I was highly embarrassed especially as I managed to drop all my 'shrapnal' all over the floor - with it rolling under freezer units and shelves and everything and as it was all the money I had to pay with it all had to be retrieved - oh well!
I think I must have been over tired yesturday as I also managed to burn myself and blow the fuse box several times whilst attempting to cook dinner yesturday resulting in dinner being served about 9 o'clock :/
Domestic, Sarah, The Family | sarah | 
Mon 11th Feb 2008 11:35 pm
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