.car (adrenaline) adventure

.this couldn't have come at a worse time... On Sunday evening my car broke down. Suddenly the petrol started to leak from some hidden hole in the fuel system. I've noticed it by quick dropping of the fuel indicator and by a strong petrol smell inside the car (air-condition was turned on). I had to park in one village close to the campus. One glance below the car showed, that it had been worse than I'd ever imagine (petrol was trickling really quickly from the front part of the vehicle). Of course on Sunday no service shop was open. We are planning to drive back to Prague on Thursday afternoon, so the timing was really worse than bad :(...
Adventure continued on Monday, I've found Renault service close to my parking place, yet the question was how to get there (no fuel left meant I needed to find someone with car to pull me there). After some tries finally one friend (Honza, big thanks for helping me!) had answered my call and promised to come as quickly as possible. He was there some time after midday. Bad luck was still not loosing it's grip on me, i've discovered, that the pulling rope was left back home in Kosice :(. And so a small ride around city was needed to find a place where they were not only selling such things, but actually also had one to sell... After some time we were lucky and have bought the rope. Not that we had big experience with pulling vehicles and so the drive was not as smooth as it could have been ;). Nevertheless it was successful! Anyway, it had to be a funny sight: Czech car with cracked windscreen and missing wiper was in quite extensive rain pulling Slovak car without petrol :). Mission was accomplished, the car was in professional care and the problem was quickly discovered (crack in the fuel system tubing). As the flawed part was not on stock, it was due to arrive today...
Finally my short story is over, it has a happy end (a little bit sour, because prices for repairment work are so high in this country - spare part 50€, work 80€...). So far is Clio working without problems, testing drive was successful. Hopefully no other problems will occur and we'll be able to spend Christmas back home...

P.S.: the car photo is only illustrative ;)