On a Wing and a Prayer

When we picked up our Wicked Camper (that's the company name, I haven't gone over all "street") we were given a road map that showed us places to camp and fuel stops. As Wicked is a low budget camper alternative we were also asked to check the oil and water each day. This required Sian and I to remember to take a look at the engine first thing each morning, before it got too hot. Six out of six mornings we failed to do this. I mean it really was expecting too much of us. We also liked to test how far a tank of petrol will really go and discovered we could do 40+k's on empty, admittedly the middle of the Australian outback isn't really the best place to test this theory.
We had to return our Wicked camper to an address just outside Alice Springs by 10am on Saturday, I forget the date with an empty tank, just like when we'd collected it. About 45k's from Alice Springs the fuel warning light came on, we made the decision to ignore it. It was around this time the camper asked me to make three wishes, I knew this because the genie lamp light had also appeared on the dashboard.
We drove (rather slowly) into Alice and decided to check out 4 hostels before booking into Annie's Place and leaving our packs there.
We rolled up in front of the drop off point at 2 minutes to 10, with a drop of petrol and a bright little genie lamp. We felt very smug, if a little relieved too.