Better Now than Later.

There's a wise saying of follow, do not put off till tomorrow what you can do today and below is the true account of a young lad who heed not, the wise words and almost landed himself into 30-inch deep shit. This is his story...

It all started on a fateful Monday night, when the lad noticed the fuel indicator starting to blink upon reaching the home. Feeling exhausted and weary from a day full of energy-draining activities, the lad decided to only refuel the following morning, there's a station along the way to his destination anyway. Never will the lad has the slightest clue on the series of events that will befall upon him the very next day.

The congestion on that particular day, on the journey into the heart of the city, was somehow much worse compared to norm. Due to this delay caused by traffic, the lad had no choice but to refuel only at the end of the day; any later, he will be paying an arm as well as a leg for the parking charges. At this point of time, the lad has traveled 11 KMs and stuck in traffic for 45 minutes, since the indicator started blinking. He was worried.

Much later, upon exiting the parking lot, the lad quickly drove to the nearest station only to find the refueling system in some technical glitch, he was left speechless. He now has to choose between two paths, both with only one refueling station along the way. Fearing congestion along the usual route, the lad headed for the other path and the station was in sight within 5 minutes. Before he was able to breathe a sigh of relief, the lad shocked beyond words as upon reaching, the station was barricaded and closed. Lady luck must have taken an emergency leave on that very day.

No choice but to push on ahead, praying the next station in sight would be operational. As if the situation is not critical enough, the lad got stuck in the worst traffic ever, being able to only move inches few minutes. The AC was turned off, fearing the worst, palms sweating. To him, it was like a curse, a string of bad luck, aimed at stalling his car in the middle of rush hour traffic for the very first time. When he finally get to refuel, journey of less than 1 KM took almost 40 minutes, and he vowed to love Caltex forever. To him, that was the longest 40 minutes of his life, so far.

KLCC was the next destination and the lad now drives a car equipped with a full tank of fuel, thank goodness. But his revelation did not last long, soon enough, he was clouded in rage and antagonism, the lad was stuck in a traffic so bad that he was planning to rip the guts off the next driver who annoyed him. It took him no less than half and hour getting from Sungei Wang to KLCC, he should really have stuck to his initial plan to take the Putra instead.

The curse finally ended at his destination. Thus, the moral of the story is always to listen to words from the wise. Should Jed has refueled the night before, all of this could have been avoided, totally. However, he is thankful that he managed to survive to the next station with the remaining fuel load, else, who knows what lies ahead of him.