Some time a go a motorist was driving along a country road without a care in the world. It was a pleasant summers day, the birds were singing and the bees were buzzing.
At some point, on a country lane a long way from anywhere of significance his car started to stutter and eventually ground to a halt. In his enjoyment of the day he had failed to notice he was low on fuel, and sure enough, he was out of petrol. The nearest filling station was many miles away, and in such a rural location there was no reliable mobile phone signal, so he faced a very long walk indeed to the nearest town to get fuel and bring it back to his stricken car.
He was upset at himself and got on with locking up the car whilst uttering a string of self targeted expletives (like 'tut' and 'bother' ???).
Just a this point he heard a loud and increasing buzzing sound, and before long the air was full of bees zipping around.....he was broken down right in the path of a swarm which was passing by.
Bees started to land on his car and one bee in particular came to the notice of the driver, it was the queen. He could see the bees were puzzled when all of a sudden he heard a quiet voice asking him what was wrong?. It was the queen herself making the sound. The driver was very perplexed at this and began to wonder if he had been out in the sun too long, but sure enough the queen repeated her question. So in his puzzlement he replied that he had run out of petrol.
The queen paused for a moment and said, just wait here, I will think about this and see if I can help. The swarm took to the air again and landed on a nearby bush.
Very quickly the queen alone returned to the car and said that they had decided to help him and to just stand back. She took to the air and soon the swarm on the bush all took to the air. The queen alighted by the filling cap which was open from earlier, started fanning and piping, and the swarm arrived and piled into the fuel tank on the car.
Some time later the bees all emerged from the tank and took to the air again, and the queen said to the driver to try to start his car. He did and after a couple of splutters his engine sprang to life. He was amazed and immediately got out and asked the queen what on earth she had done? Look in the tank? the queen said. So the driver looked in the filling hole and turned to the queen and Aha!!!!! That's great! BP!!!!!