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Self-diagnosed OCD sufferer, Amelia Allen, is employing box breathing techniques this afternoon as her taxi driver just flat out ignores the ‘check engine’ light flashing on the dashboard of his 2016 Ford Falcon.
“While.. I…am.. nervous .. about the.. prospect of.. the car… breaking.. down..” Allen told The Advocate over the phone.
“What I feel.. most.. is.. jealousy” she continued between breaths.
Jealousy, she went on to say, because of his obvious lack of anxiety or any other fight or flight response a flashing check engine light would elicit from her.
According to Allen, the light has been flashing for the entirety of the trip from her home to Betoota International Airport – where she is arriving 4-hours ahead of her scheduled departure time.
“I can’t even let my car go below ¼ of a tank of fuel, this guy has the fuel light, engine light and another blue light that I don’t even recognise.”
Whether Allen makes it to the airport in her current taxi remains to be seen, but it’s understood that she has another taxi on standby should any of these warning lights come to pass.
More to come.
