Well last night was a very close call. I've been busy and traveling all over the past few days, and I just didn't have a convenient time to stop at a station and fill up. My gas light was on for a while yesterday, and I kept thinking, "Man, I have to go somewhere and get gas or I'm going to be stranded." I was on the move though, so I didn't have time to stop until after 10pm last night. I pulled into the station, inserted my card, chose the 87-octane stuff and started filling up.
Now I have a 14 gallon tank. Until last night, I had never seen it fill up to more than 13.7 gallons.
Last night, when I was finished, the counter read: 13.966 gallons.
I was literally saved by a fume. Whew.
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i had that happen a few times on my trips to and from indiana. made some passengers very nervous a few times. they need to do a better job warning travelers that there won't a gas station for several more miles.
good story with a happy ending. i had the pleasure of being in the car with my mom twice when we ran out of gas, most memorably at the corner of the middle school parking lot after school. Mom went to get gas while I sat in the backseat of the car, surrounded by groceries from my mom's recent shopping trip, feeling humiliated as my peers walked past the car. Everything is extra humiliating when you're in seventh grade. Now, I typically try to not let the tank get lower than 1/4 -- just to be safe.
i ran out of gas once... in the parking lot of my apartment complext in indy. i had to walk back and ask laura and sean to take me to the gas station. good thing i wasn't on the side of the road somewhere. i don't think i had a cell phone back then.
You might want to have your bestman remind you to fuel up BEFORE you head off for your honeymoon!
My sister Peggy didn't have a gas gauge that worked so she was always running out of gas usually after she had picked us up to go somewhere. She would leave me in the car with her kids, my kid, and all our babysitting kids while she went walking to the gas station WITHOUT a gas can. Did I mention she had electric windows and I couldn't get them down to get any air?
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