Today's post is about white lies...these are little untruths you tell people to avoid upsetting them or causing you unnecessary millions of questions! But of course lying is a really bad characteristic in a person and I never tell blatant lies but the odd white lie is allowed!
Anyway let me tell you why 'telling white lies to a 3 year old is unlucky!'
I was visiting my little nearly 3 year old nephew Isaac the other day. He is a cheeky monkey but very cute 💕
I'd spent the whole day with him and his mum (my sister), Tarra (means Star ⭐️ in Hindi/Bengali).
It was time for me to leave as had to pick up my own kids from school cos it was a Wednesday.
Isaac gets very sad and grumpy when people leave, so you have to give a reason for leaving. So I said to him that I was going to buy petrol for my little yellow tiny car! I wasn't really buying petrol right at that moment but I was going to sometime later that day so thought that's a good reason to say to a 3 year old.
Little did I know this little white lie would be unlucky for me a couple of days later!!
I saw Isaac and Tarra the next day as we were meeting for lunch and again I spent the day with them and had to go to pick up my kids from school so said the same thing to Isaac about petrol. He was surprised that I had to buy petrol again but I said it's only a tiny car so uses lot of petrol!
A couple of days....I was coming home from work and the red petrol light came on in my mini and this means I can drive about 30 miles and then need to buy petrol so as I was going to work I thought I would buy petrol on the way home as then I am not in the morning traffic/rush hour and not so on a deadline to get to my destination.
On my way home from work, it was unusually busy and I was crawling along the M25 and thinking I need to get to services to fill up...come on people move!
I was about 0.4 miles away from services and thought Yay I'm gonna just make it!
Little did I know that the 2 little white lies I had told my little nephew Isaac would come back to haunt me!
I have run out of petrol quite a few times in my 20 plus years of driving so can tell when my car is about to die!
I was in the fast lane on the M25 moving into the slow lane to come off at services and I realised I wasn't going to make it! So I indicated and stopped on the hard shoulder. Put my hazard lights on and tried the car but no luck :(
From past experience of getting stranded on the A3 between Guildford and home and cos of the job I do where I travel all around Surrey I have AA silver membership and have done for many years.
So I got out my phone and AA silver membership card and made the call....
I was in the car in the passenger side so as to not get swept by the very fast moving cars on the M25!
The AA lady was very helpful and asked me the usual questions about what had happened and where I was. When she found out I was on the hard shoulder on the M25 she said this is a priority call I will send someone straight away.
She asked me to not be in the car but be outside a safe distance from the vehicle and keep the hazard lights on.
So I went outside and climbed over the barriers and stood shivering in the cold on the grassy side of the M25 heading towards Cobham services!
I had time to kill-the AA man would be at least 30 minutes! So I called favourite cousin Klaire and chatted to her for a while. I didnt tell her that I had broken down for a short while but then I did and she (being a Middle Child Syndrome sufferer) couldn't help but crack up!
I was feeling cold so went into my car to be rescued a short while later by a fabulous AA man who said as he saw me "oh, you were so close!"
He filled up my car with a petrol can of petrol and then accompanied me to services to further fill up.
He was a very nice man, a very nice AA man!
I then went on my way home and carried on with my day.
***more on this tale later!**
Thanks
Amina aka Mishti 💕
