Fuel Cap

[T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.]

Before the dawn of my Aygo I always drove Fords. With a Ford you don't remove the key from the fuel cap, after filling up, until you replace the fuel cap. In more years driving than I care to remember I have never driven off without replacing the fuel cap. Something distracted me a couple of weeks ago (it was one of those "pay at pump" things) and, I'm afraid I drove off with the cap dangling. Someone, helpfully, beeped her horn at me and I got out and replaced the cap.

[Jan van de Wouw]

You didn't close the flap either??? Wouldn't you have seen the flap in your mirror then???

[T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S.]

Perhaps if the problem had remained for much longer but, as it was, I was leaving a car park to join the carriageway and an SUV came up behind me and started beeping. It was chucking it down with rain and I indicated to a pedestrian that she should pass in front of me and, a moment later, she indicated that the SUV was beeping at me. I got out and the driver of the SUV pointed at my car and ...