Pad Patter: 12/8 - Fueling Up

[sarahbhb]

We're a one car family and DH has a 30 minute commute to work so it's very rare anymore that I have to put gas in the car. When I had my own car I did my best to fill it up when it hit 1/4 of a tank. Low gas warnings make me nervous..lol.

Too funny about the mushrooms and Jif. I never thought to make any of those types of deals with DH when we got married. He's pretty good about eating what I cook though..he's even grown to like beans and cornbread which he thought was the worst tasting food he'd ever had when he moved to Arkansas...lol.

 

[KimJ]

I actually don't mind pumping gas at all. I have to do a lot of across-town (or into-the-next-town, or two-towns-away... the joys of a metro area) types of errands these days so I fuel up about once a week. I normally let it get down to about a quarter to an eighth of a tank and pick a time when I can do it at my close familiar cheap station rather than having to figure out an unfamiliar pump while I'm out running around.

I've run out of gas 2 times in my life. One was when I was a teenager. It was winter and I had to be to work at 6am on a Saturday. I took my dad's car out of the garage, rather than defrosting my own, which was parked on the street. I got half a block from my house and the car died, so really that was my dad's fault, not mine. Right? I just ran back to the house and woke him up, and then ran to work, which was only a few blocks away, because it was faster than scraping my windows. LOL

The other time was also in winter. I was working a project in North Dakota. We were staying in the city, but the work site was out in the middle of nowhere. I forgot to fill up before we left the city, and there was no gas in the tiny town we were working in. I had a coworker with me, and we made it about halfway back to the city before the car died. Fortunately, we were near a farm and the owner was home and had a full gas can handy. I got the impression he had a lot of stranded motorists stop by. That one was really embarrassing, so I try not to let that happen anymore!

 

[staciahall]

I've pumped my own gas for years, don't give it a second thought anymore. At the house before this one (about 9 years ago) the gas stations were pretty far away, you didn't want to be on E at the end of the day. At this house, there are two stations less than a mile away so it's at least convenient. My problem is that I'll fill up and then the price will go down the next morning.