Stuff Continues to "Break"

My day started out like any "normal" day in which I was completely lying to my wife to throw her off.  I was trying to surprise her for her birthday so I had an entire plan that was going to start the moment I left for work.  She didn't know I had taken the day off to surprise her but I had some stuff I needed to do before I let the cat out the bag (more on that in a moment).  That morning, the boys wanted to go to school in the Ford.  I really didn't want to run errands in the Ford but couldn't explain my aversion to taking it so off I went...

From there, I dropped the kids at school and headed to the party store where I got the balloons I ordered.  I dropped them at my parents house and they were going to sneak them into our house while we went to lunch.

 As I was heading between my parents and home, this happened.  I assumed the fuel pump was shot (see prior post) and didn't have time to diagnose it further.  Sent the car to my shop that I use and had to confess to my wife that I was not at work and that she needed to come get me.

The rest of the day went off without a hitch.  When I got a call from my mechanic (expecting "bad" news), he informed me that I had basically ran the car out of gas and on the hill I was on made the situation way worse.  Good outcome - Bad fuel gauge.  Time to go back to using mileage again...

The picture below is a random show we took the car to.  We got there late and didn't really participate in the show itself but I'm always thankful to park where I can see the car.