When the people you hate, helps you out.

[Gunzo]

Yesterday while returning from Witbank I was stuck on the N1 in the traffic, just before turning off on the N12 (near Lenasia). After a while I got the error on my dash, warning me to stop. The Car was overheating. Being a company car I thought I'm going to push through until the flow of the traffic gets going again. But on the other hand I treat other peoples belongings as I treat my own, so I pulled over. Steam were starting to come out of the bonnet. I switched of the car and while phoning our Transport controller, a white taxi stopped next to me. Not long after the taxi a metro-police car stopped on the other side of me. The driver was at my window as I finished on the phone. He leaned forward as to ask me something and said he's pretending to help me for he was driving in the yellow line and the metro cop's then came in behind him. The metro cop's asked if I was okay, and I replied that my car overheated and that I just needed water for the radiator. They said I must get some water from the taxi and they drove off. I told the driver that he owed me, thinking that he's going to leave straight away. The driver told me to open the bonnet. Hesitantly I opened it. Straight away he said that my radiator's fan was not working, he opened the fuse box on the battery and showed me that the one fuses has melted. He changed it with another fuse, and then and there the fan was working as it was supposed to. He went to his taxi and came back with two 2l bottles of water. He said that if the car gets warm again I must just stop, wait for it to cool down, and then add some water. 45 km further and I was safely at home.

 

I just hate it when these people drive in the yellow lanes when all of us decent people wait patiently in the traffic. I was wishing it upon them to get pulled over by the cops.

But this time it was to my advantage that some random taxi driver drove in the yellow lane, was almost pulled over by a cop and used me as his scape coat. I would have figured out the problem by myself in good time, but he did it in a few seconds flat.