Petrol price have increased and with it living costs, food costs, etc costs. We can gripe and complain and rant till our faces turn purple but it is not going to change anything. Why not find ways to cut down our petrol costs instead?
I have been thinking about it for awhile and have devised these devious steps to cut down petrol costs. Try it and you may just like it!
Top Ten Tips to Save Petrol
1. When going to work, ask any colleague who live near you to pick you up because ‘my car broken down and is at the mechanics for the next two months’. Remember to put on an Oscar performance and make sure you hide the car somewhere so that the colleague won’t see it.
2. Use your parents / FIL / MIL cars whenever going anywhere other than work – the downside, you probably have to take them along too! And check the meter first, if petrol is down, don’t use it until they have already top it up.
3. Call in sick every few days – if you can’t get a colleague to drive you, then get a fake MC, preferably from a clinic within walking distance from your home. This is a two in one deal, you save petrol and you don’t have to work!
4. For single girls – now is the time to be on the lookout for eligible men with cars. Flutter your eyelashes, show some cleavage, flash some legs, whatever, as long as you have the guy drooling and rendered half-witted, you can easily get the car keys from him, drive till petrol out and then hand it back to him and tell him to fill it up. Easy. You don’t even have to take him along.
5. For bachelors – now is the time to look for single lonely and rich career women who does not mind driving you around. Too bad, you probably will have to take her along wherever you want to go because women do not trust their property with men even if you show hairy chest and bulging biceps.
6. Quit your job, move back home with your parents and vegetate there – just tell your parents you were retrenched and that you are trying very hard to get a new job. While there, make them drive you everywhere just like old times. Another two-in-one deal, you save on petrol and you get free drivers too!
7. When really no choice but have to drive your own car to go shopping/ clubbing / banking, etc, go to the nearest mall with free all day parking or cheap all day parking rate, park there and then ask a friend to pick you up. Give the excuse ‘My boyfriend/ girlfriend/ parents/ cousin/ relative dropped me here and I need a lift to….’. For the trip back, get another friend. Hey, that’s what friends are for.
8. Exchange your car with the all-time favourite Flintstone car, all you need is your feet and your passengers’ feet. It is also environmental friendly and car thief proof because no thief in their right mind would steal a car that they have to literally carry and run.
9. Move in with your inlaws – and offer to take them anywhere in their car, If the petrol is low, pretend to be real busy (cleaning the house, watering the garden, building a fort, devising a plan to shut them up, etc) and let them fill it up again before using their car again.
10. Go up to a police patrol car and act all lost and scared and frightened (only works if you are a female SWT and the police involved are damn gatal – too bad guys, there are advantages to being a woman) and ask them to send you home.
See? It wasn’t so difficult to save petrol cost after all. 
If all else fail and you still could not save petrol cost, you will have no choice but to employ the ultimate, 100 percent guaranteed save petrol measure:
Sell off your car and walk/ cycle.
Note: For the serious people out there, this is strictly a humour piece in case you have not noticed. If you do not know the meaning of humour, go look it up in a dictionary or something.
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Interesting post~ hehe.
I bet I save even more petrol simply because…I can’t drive…
jhuis last blog post..Hiroshima: The Food Post
Just don’t drive lor.
do ou know any single rich lonely women?can intro..lol
falcons last blog post..5 Places i’ll take you on holiday…
Option 1 – can’t use cause no colleagues around my area
Option 2 – they are doing that to me!
Option 3 – getting a fake MC cost RM10-20, not worth it
Option 4 – not applicable
Option 5 – not applicable
Option 6 – tried that when I was still single, doesn’t really works out
Option 7 – Doing that once in a while…HAHAHA
Option 8 – currently trying to look for it in used car dealers
Option 9 – not applicable
Option 10 – not applicable
Hiak Hiak…nice post.
Btw, I’m gonna make a put link to your blog(love yours…a blog of current issues with a pinch of sarcasm and humour). If you do not allow or rather I do not do so,..please inform me.
Crotaluss last blog post..Feeling the Pinch
jhui: LOL. that’s the best way to save petrol!
Maddie: it’s a double edged sword, if we drive,we die from the costs, if we don’t drive, how to go to work to get an income?
falcon: wei, I am not a mamasan okay? Go look for rich lonely ladies yourself…
Crotalus: eh, your company don’t have medical claim wan ar? if got, claim lar. that means free MC for no. 3. heheheh…
Sure, can link to my blog anytime….
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