The tale of the small silver bicycle

and so ... the car runs out of petrol as poodle is driving jol to
skool ... as jol failed to wake up this morning ... they are in the
middle of a busy town centre junction .. when *phuuuut* ... polo ceases
forward motion ....

"get out and push!" poodle exhorts ... cars swerve to avoid polo and
nearly cause murky harbour high street pile up ... what a headline THAT
would make in the Murky Bugle ... (current front page headline: apathy
threatens carnival parade! ... this is NEWS?) ...

jol jumps out .. not nimbly ... but with heavy irony befitting teenager
forced to do embarrassing manouevre in town centre ....

jol pushes car (slight uphill gradient)... thank god he is strong and
manly ... poodle sees in rearview mirror veins bulging on his forehead
... car in convenient parking space ...

poodle ... thankfully NOT in pajamas (for once) discovers 2 pertinent
facts ...

1. petrol can NOT in car ... petrol can on front porch ...
2. poodle has neither money nor mobile phone with which to summon
help

poodle has to walk home!

several hours later poodle realises that car is parked in 2 hr parking
space ... panic ensues ... the only option is ... Dan's Small Silver
Bicycle ...

so ... poodle leaps aboard small silver bicycle ... remembering she has
not ridden a bicycle for YEARS ... let alone a small one with many
malfunctioning parts ...

grasping petrol can from porch as she wobbles past ... poodle sets off
down road to great amusement of next door neighbours ... poodle's knees
reach almost to her ears as she pedals ...

poodle discovers great discomfort caused by rigid plastic knife edge
posing as saddle ...

but ... poodle gets the hang of it! ... she pedals like the wind
alarming several elderly pedestrians ... halfway down the hill poodle
considers that she may have to soon apply the brakes ... poodle wonders
if indeed the brakes are one of the malfunctioning parts of the little
silver bicycle ...

poodle applies brakes and discovers one of them is indeed a
Malfunctioning Part but that the other applies a small degree of
braking power to front wheel ...

phew!

poodle pedals past police station then notices man hanging out of
window of small van ... visibly in hysterics over sight of amazonian
women pedalling like wind on small silver bicycle ... fortunately wind
whistling past poodle's ears renders man's comments inaudible ...
poodle suspects they may well not be flattering ...

poodle pedals into garage and fills petrol can ... brandon behind the
counter can barely contain his amusement at her plight ...

with oddly weighted handle bars poodle sets off again ... and arrives
at car ... mercifully the traffic warden has not penalised her for
parking too long ...

*glug glug* ... car starts ...

the end