Yes it could......
Sometime during the course of packing from our apartment today we realised Paul's keys were missing. No amount of tracing and re-tracing events from the previous night could shed any light on their whereabouts. We looked everywhere three times, from inside rubbish bins, inside the dishwasher, under beds/couches/chairs/children, stripped all the bed linen, emptied the contents of the car, etc etc. The keys had simply disappeared. Luckily I have a spare set to the car. However still not a good thing when the car can only be started once the immobiliser is connected to the slot in the dashboard. So we are down to one immobiliser. Our next dilemma was the camper trailer keys also on Paul's key collection. These we did not have a spare set of.
Whilst we could access the tent and the food and stove/sink, we had locked the steel trunk whilst it was at the repairers (and the ONLY time during the entire trip we actually locked it!). The trunk contained the batteries for the lights etc but thankfully these had been charged not so long ago. Other bits and pieces included all our chairs, bucket, extension lead and various tools.
So we left Halls Creek in a very bad mood, picked up the camper trailer (which had been repaired with a few shonky methods) and set off to Kununarra where we would spend the night before heading to Katherine to meet Leanne, Steve and Ethan.
Oh so much worse....
Made it safely to Kununarra wracking our brains the entire 6 hours as to where Paul's keys could possibly be. We stopped at the petrol station to fill up and in a momentary lapse of concentration Paul pumped 48 litres of unleaded petrol into our diesal car. OMG!! Paul went a horrible ashen colour when he realised what he had done. After consulting with the attendant and ringing a bloke nearby who deals with events such as this we were very luckily able to switch to the sub fuel tank and drive to have the poisoned tank drained.
This delayed us for about 2 hours and was a costly exercise after paying for the unleaded petrol, labour to have it drained and a charge of $2.00 per litre for it to be disposed of correctly. Then back to the petrol station to fill up again.
Thank goodness this day was over.
