Out of Gas

Hello, hello, hello. Hello peeps. We hope everyone is uh enjoying the start of their beautiful summer as we are. Yeah. Yeah, we’re getting into the summer mode. We’re having a good time meeting some great people coming in town. Thank you for coming in, spending some time with us. I am Diane Bro. This is my sidekick, my cohort. (00:23) My co-host Randall Bro. I go by a lot of different names. Yep. But anyway, uh we’re in it together. So, here we are filming yet again. Yeah. Here we go. Come up with a little tip. This was fun. Something we had. Well, it wasn’t fun for us, but not in the moment. Yeah. Not in the moment. It was. So, we are from flat country. (00:46) We originally uh hail from New Orleans, which is really flat. Uh we spent most of our lives either in Louisiana or Texas. Flat, flat, flat. Uh flat and straight. flat and straight straight road. You know, uh we’re not we don’t do the the third the third uh you know the Z the Z-axis. We don’t do a whole lot of altitude. No. (01:12) So, uh learning how to do things like drive and go around when you actually have to deal with hills was a little bit of a a little bit of a learning curve for us. Yep. I mean, it’s not rocket science, but one thing uh that it took us a while to catch on to uh that we thought we would share with you. And it’s happened to us twice. (01:31) It’s happened to us twice. The second time, relatively close. We were like, okay. I I think there’s something going on here. So, we’re a little bit dumb and dumber on this. Yeah, a little dumb and dumber. So, we like to get our gas at Costco. Shout out to Costco. Shout out to Costco. Everybody knows best gas prices. Best gas prices. (01:49) Oh, by the way, our gas prices here in Prescat at Costco are $259 a gallon. So, just want to share that all of you folks living out of state. Yeah. Yeah. Just maybe one of those states that has their own special formulation of gasoline formula. Yeah. Yeah. We don’t do that here. No $5 or $6 a gallon. Yeah. We’re sub sub twos. So, that’s that’s looking real pretty good. (02:16) So yeah, we find the best one of the cheapest places to get gas is at Costco. Unfortunately, Costco is over a big hill. So you got to go up this big hill. Probably the biggest hill that I can think of in Prescat. Yes. Is you’re going up. It’s a Prescat Lakes uh parkway and it goes over a hill to get to 69. And that’s a pretty steep hill. (02:40) Wow. That’s a very steep hill. I have learned I have I’ll let you know this. I have learned to put my car in standard and keep it in either fourth gear or third gear. I don’t do that. Uh going down so I don’t have to burn out my brakes. I don’t do all that. Yeah, she does. She She never drives though. I’m always But it’s highly annoying when he does that. I’ll just say that. (03:01) It is highly annoying. I don’t know if it really helps. She doesn’t like the noise that it makes. Yeah, the the we we moved here and within I don’t know like a month and a half I needed new brakes because I’m just riding the brake and riding the brake and riding the brake. So yeah, that’s one trick is to downshift or at least put yourself in standard so it doesn’t go up to the really high. (03:23) But anyway, back to the gas keeps you going. So we’re going in the opposite direction to go to Costco. We’re going uphill, right? We’re trying to valiantly get there. They were like, “We can do it.” A little I had about maybe an eighth of a tank. It was time to fill up. Yeah. And we’ll get a really good It’s not that far away. Yeah. (03:39) So, you go to Costco. So, we’re going up the hill. Well, we’d run out of gas. So, uh the first time it happened, I think it happened to you and I came and saved you. That’s right. And then it happened to me and then Skip saved me. So, shout out to Skip. Skip and Kathy who came to uh rescue us with Ranger and yeah brought us brought us some gas uh to get o completely over the hill. (04:05) Here’s the thing. When your when your car is sticking its nose up in the air, the gasoline inside your tank is doing the same thing. It’s rolling to one side of your tank. And if it gets too far away from the intake, then you’re going to run out of gas. Even though there’s gas in the tank, it’s not deep enough to get to that point. That’s right. (04:29) And so, yeah, after about two or three times, we finally realized, you know what? Now, you know, I sat there. I probably could have put the car in neutral and did like a a J turn and turned around uh going the wrong direction into uh oneway traffic to get the gas to the front of my car. But, uh I didn’t do that. (04:52) Yeah, we didn’t think that was a good thing. We didn’t think it’d be well received by the other driver. So, that’s the trick. So, so what we wanted to share with those of you like us who are uh altitude challenged, uh don’t drive an an almost empty gas can, never a gas tank up a hill or down a hill because you could run out of gas even though you’re not really out of gas. (05:15) My second tip is always have really good friends with gas uh gas cans who you can call and are like, “Sure, did y’all do it again?” Yeah. Yes. We’re so embarrassed. Yeah. And who lovely lovingly and graciously come to your rescue. Yeah. So, thank you Kathy and Skip. Kathy and Skip. Yeah. Kathy and Skip came and picked us up with Ranger, their dog. (05:38) And I sat in the back with Ranger was one of the dogs for a little while. We went to go get a a gas can so we could fill it with gas. It’s always good to have those kind of friends. Yeah. Yeah. Good tip for sure. Friends who will help you out in So, a little tip. Nick of time. Little tip. So, don’t drive up a hill on empty or near empty. (05:56) So-called mountain time uh mountain town uh uh pointers. Yes. So, something we learned the hard way and we don’t want you to learn it. Wanted to share with you. Yes. So, anyway, that’s just kind of our silly little adventures. There’s always an adventure with the bros. Something something’s always going cuckoo crazy. Always lots of drama. (06:17) I don’t want it, but it’s what it is. So, that’s your tip of the day. All right. So, thank you for listening and remember, don’t go too close. Don’t go 10 miles and try to go 10 miles till you’re empty and try to go up a hill or don’t go fill up at Costco and go over the hill. Just go to the the other gas station. Go to the closer one. (06:35) Go to the closer one in in in extreme times. Yeah. So anyway, so uh anyway, again, remember our our gas prices here are amazingly low. Yeah. So, uh it’s very a pleasant surprise to our folks who relocate here. They’re like, “Wow, I have such a I’m getting such a big break. More money in my pocket. (06:56) I needed all of $2 worth of gas to get over.” Yeah, it was pretty bad. But that’s all right. Embarrassing. Living and learning every day. So, all right, folks. We hope to see you here soon. We hope you don’t run out of gas. Uh but we’re happy to come help you if you do. That’s right. Uh we will. We now have our own gas can. (07:14) We’re proud to say. So u thank you for listening and we hope you find this little tip, you know, helpful so you don’t find yourself in trouble. So for more tips and information, check us out at Oh, pickle411.com. That’s our free information site. Whether you are a buyer, seller or somewhere in between, there will be something there waiting for you that will amaze, astound, educate, and inform you to the absolute extent of your existence. (07:44) And it’s only a hundred bucks. No, it’s free. Free people. Free. Absolutely free. Free. Shout out to us. You’re welcome, everyone. You’re welcome. The whole community. 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