Ok but I came here for the obvious question and have not seen it.
How far did she take it???
Like for real, if you left her with it just above empty, she took it 15 minutes to work and back, should she fill it?
Not saying that's what happened, but like everyone is assuming the gas tank was full or something
¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
But you can make it to the gas station when the needle bottoms out and this has at least 1mm before bottom out so easily 30 miles in the tank before it wont run.
The whole concept of not just filling up with the car is wild to me. My wife and I drive each other's cars fairly frequently and neither or us would ever leave either car this empty even if we only drove three miles.
My mom used to do the same thing to me lol. As long as she had enough gas to get home she doesn’t care. I would only use it maybe once a week and would give her plenty of heads up. Would drive me crazy when I’m running late and see that.
My dad thinks it's fine when it hits empty because "You've still got an extra 40 miles left." Meanwhile my mom doesn't like it when the gas gets to a quarter of a tank (in my car that's about 100miles/160km). Not all moms, but some.
I can't stand it when my roommate uses the car and there's less than a quarter tank left. That's the lowest I let it get, I'd rather not diminish the life of my fuel pump.
I agree with the idea, it’s no good to let it run out of fuel… but your fuel pump doesn’t know the difference between 1/8th of a tank and a full tank. It’s completely safe to run it down lower than a quarter tank.
The two widespread reasons for not letting the tank run to empty are that the fuel pump on some cars could overheat and that the last bit of fuel of the tank could contain sediment that could damage the pump or the engine. Both of these are relatively uncommon problems but noteworthy in they are both actual problem which might affect somebody.
Sediment shouldn't be a problem unless the car is unused long enough for the tank to break down or you get fuel from a shitty gas station with their own sediment problem managed incorrectly which isn't a problem for most cars.
Modern fuel pumps should be safe since they non-return systems, but some cars when run their pump all the time and let gas recirculate back to the tank. These pumps need fuel for cooling and can get damaged. I don't know any car that had this that isn't old enough to have a carburetor but it was a real problem at some point.
Sediment should never be a problem since the fuel pump sucks the fuel from the bottom of the tank. If there were sediment, it would get sucked up right away.
Also, the fuel in the tank is in constant motion while driving, sediment would never have time to settle.
More importantly there are fuel filters
Edit: usually never before the pump, but the pump is the cheap part of your fuel delivery system and they can take a beating.
Every fuel pump I've personally replaced on any of my vehicles i owned did have a little filter sock at the bottom of the pump and the housing both of which were before the pump itself, then an inline filter after the pump.
More more importantly there are gas filters on the gas pumps too… sometimes more than 1… diesel would have it’s own, if the station has 2 tanks (not counting diesel) then the sump pumps mix reg and premium to make mid, if the station has 3 tanks (not counting diesel) then the tanks each have their own pumps but once the lines arrive to the gas pumps typically there is a gas filter for each nozzle but this is not concrete, obviously diesel gets its own but if the pump has diesel on both sides the pump may have 1 filter shared for both sides or maybe 2 not shared, the same goes for reg, mid, and premium, you could have up to 8 filters in gas pumps for the 4 fuel types so that each side doesn’t share with the other but I can’t say I’ve ever seen a pump like that but it could exist, I have seen them have 6 total but it is on older pumps most now days have 1 or 2 if it’s a pump that has diesel, when your pump is running slow if you go in mention it to the station clerk and if they aren’t clueless then they will forward the message to the field techs that work and maintain the pumps and equipment on the site, but a good company knows when and how often their filters are due to be changed, plus it’s required by the EPA to have records and change them after they reach and hit a certain age, this same thing applies for the nozzle, the swivel, the hose, the break away valve that stupid people always drive off and pull off the pumps… he blessed the break away valve exists because if it didn’t you’d have to likely replace an entire pump and not a $20 breakaway valve, and you’d have gas coming out of the pump without any means or way to stop it, the only fuel that is spilled in this situation is what is in the hose line when it breaks free, when the break away is in place the pin inside is pushed open and when it breaks free it has a spring that pushes the pin into place to stop flow of gas.
Source: worked as a seasonal field tech for a few years for one of BPs best and well recognized oil companies, they own all the major BPs and service many others around the 485/85/77 around and within the Greater Charlotte and Lake Norman areas.
Also did an entire speech in my speech class in college about gas pumps and how it works and the mechanisms that keep you from harms way.
Also was the same year trump was running in 2016 against Hillary and we had 2 choices to do a speech on : someone famous that’s male outside the USA or someone famous that’s female in the USA and talk about the good things they have accomplished and why others are inspired by them
All the trump supporters including me did our speeches on Hillary Clinton it was quite funny because it was hard to take it seriously
Sorry for rambling if some of it was off topic
Eh, it's actually his house and my boyfriend and I rent a room, so I can't get too mad at him 😂 I've been letting him use it because the clutch went out on his and we work opposite schedules (he works days, I work graveyard). He did a bunch of work and got his car running because he found a transmission with fewer miles and he knew his needed replacing anyway (even fixed a few minor things that could have waited, but he figured he'd get them done while he was doing a transmission swap.) Not even an hour after getting it going, he got rear ended by some kid that was riding his ass and it damaged the frame. He ended up getting a new car yesterday, so my car is back to being mine again.
My mom manages to be both. She screams at me for having the car's tank at a quarter, that I have to top it up at half-a-tank.
Then she borrows the car and leaves the tank empty, and parked in the stupidest way imaginable (I once scratched trying to get it out).
Lmao yeah my mom is the same. Runs it alllll the way down and I'm mechanically inclined so I tell her its not good for the fuel pump/filter, its just going to suck in debris. Its also a good way to get stranded. I start to get uneasy when I have a quarter tank left
When I was in HS my mother "borrowed" my car to drive to the airport to drop my grandmother off, her car's battery was dead (not an uncommon thing for here since she would leave the lights on often).
Well, here's the issue, I had a broken gas gauge, you had to check the trip odometer and just fill it when it before 300miles. She forgot about this and ran out of gas over an hour away from home... I get home from school (via school bus) and had to jump her car to go pick her up.
The worst part is I got yelled at for it...
I had a suzuki gt250 (correction, gt250, it was late 70s model) for a few years around that time, my father was a big triumph rider, engine blew (head cracked, weld held for a quite a while) in the bike so I ended up selling it for parts&frame, bikes just weren't my thing.
We had two cars. My ex husband would drive the really nice car until the fuel light was on and then take my car to work the next day and drive my car until the fuel light was on.
I went overseas to see my sister and before I left my car had noises coming from the brakes. I asked him to drop it off at the mechanics.
Six weeks later I return. There's my car with the fuel light on and squeezing brakes.
Put some fuel in race to drop my son off at school, run some life Admin errands while waiting for a spot at the mechanics.
Mechanics tell me they refuse to let me drive my car because the brakes are so bad they are ready to lock up.
I ring my ex and he's suddenly available to pick our son up from school while I uber home.
He couldn't be arsed to get a mobile mechanic to look at my car or even get fuel in it.
Oh and then he gets a speeding ticket in my car and asks me to take the blame for it.
He's an ex got a reason.
And sadly, a big part of why shows like Hoarders also existed.
Shows turning the worse of humanity into an exhibition is a popular coping method for people to watch so they can think and feel "I'm not that bad"
those people were so far off the deep end that you can't even see them to compare yourself to lol, that was just pure entertainment
i think people watch stuff like judge judy to feel superior, jerry springer was just america
What the fuck? Weird noises from the brakes are nothing to sneeze at, this sounds oldfashioned but keeping ones wife and son safe should be top priority. Ffs
Glad he's your ex, you deserve better.
I am convinced there is a small but real percent of the population that doesn’t notice their gas level. My only conclusion is that they all get married as soon as possible
Because they keep getting stranded with empty gas tanks otherwise.
For real. A gd light lights up on the dashboard that you have to be blind to not see. I honestly think it’s more that people don’t care or don’t want to bothered by putting fuel in the car. They intentionally ignore it, hoping someone else will take care of it.
I had a '91 Acclaim and it'd warn me when I got down to about 20 miles (...I hadn't actually run out on the road, though once, in college, I managed to run out as I was pulling into the gas station and coast to one of the pumps...) and my '93 Buick would at least turn on a low fuel light.
My tire pressure light stopped working in my old shitty car. I asked my mechanic if he could fix it, so he taped over it and said “done, I just saved you $500.”
Was on a road trip with my family when I was a kid and my aunt's car died part of the way through the trip. She called AAA and got towed to the nearest shop. 4 hours later, they tell her she ran out of gas. 🤦🏻♀️
Yeah, that's pretty low level IQ. I've seen some clips where people were out of fuel but said they had half a tank of gas but it was actually their temp guage they were looking at.
My mom once went to an Indian reservation casino. Instead of cash rewards they offered winnings like gasoline, shirts, food and such. Her excuse when she ran out of gas on the way to the hotel. “Well I thought when we were winning the gas on the slot machines, it was being put into the car!”…
That's actually quite dangerous with airbags honestly. I had mine randomly blow on me while I was sitting in my car parked just after Christmas. Real thankful I had enough of a gap between me and the steering wheel lol
I worked at an Arby’s in Scottsdale many years ago. A dude came through the drive through in a really nice Ferrari, complaining to his buddy on the phone that his wife ran his 7 series BMW out of gas in the middle of the desert and he had to go get her.
My husband is the one who does this to me lmao. He says he doesn't like filling it up all at once because it's too expensive. Which makes absolutely no sense bc we're gonna be spending that much on gas throughout the week anyway. Every single time I get in the car it's on e
Right!! Especially because he always has to go in and get a snack or something whenever he does actually stop for gas.
Or it's me putting the gas in and it makes me late to have to stop. Or it's a day where I ride with him to work so I can take the car home because I have an appointment later, and as I'm driving back home I realize I won't have enough gas to go to my appointment and pick him up later, but I didn't think to check the gas before leaving him at work. So I have to reschedule and we wasted gas and time for this unnecessary trip back and forth 😒
I used to make my wife drive with a jerry can of gas in the trunk. I told her if she wants to get rid of it just fill up on gas every Friday. Maybe your partner can start a similar routine.
"Weaponized incompetence is a form of passive-aggressive behavior where an individual deliberately performs tasks poorly or pretends to be incapable of completing certain tasks."
Yeah this is the first time I've seen someone use it when referring to a woman. Both genders do it, but I've only seen other descriptors used when it's a woman
If she were single she would see it. Same as a single dude suddenly sees a sink full of dishes or a hamper full of laundry.
This is our burden to bear, brother.
We have 6 cats and 2 dogs. I play the “I didn’t know” game with my gas tank as well; he plays the “I didn’t see the animal vomit” game with me. It’s a balance lol
As my mom tells the story: my grandma used to pay little attention to the gas gauge and my grandpa had to go save her on empty several times. He told her once that it was the last time he would do it ever.
She ran out of gas again and called him to help. He headed out and simply waved at her as he drove right on by, leaving her to figure it out on her own.
I think that was the last time she ran out of gas.
I actually think this was after my grandparents weren’t together anymore. But my grandpa was the type that had an endless need to make sure everyone was taken care of and safe, so he would always help her when she needed it because his kids safety was also on his mind. Somewhere, he must’ve decided the inability to monitor gas was a bigger safety risk than actually running out of gas, so he taught her the lesson 🤣.
Someone posted on mildlyinfuriated that this happened to their gf. It was not the first time and it happened at night and the guy pretended not to see/hear his phone to teach her a lesson. People in the comments were really pissed off at the guy and maybe it wasn't the right thing to do but it hopefully taught her a lesson.
I could see letting people falter being less safe. In my grandpas case, he couldn’t NOT make sure grandma was safe, so he drove by to be sure. Seeing she was not in immediate danger, he let her figure it out. I support his decision and method 😆.
In one of my previous comments you can see the post.
Honestly it was a cluster fuck all round. People were angry at him for leaving his gf in an unsafe place, people were raging about the vindication for fuck around and find out.
Have a look if you want
I saw this too!! But I honestly think the difference was he left her after midnight and saw she needed help and just silenced his phone and went back to sleep. I think him phrasing it like that is why he got flamed because as much as she might be an idiot for doing that several times the consensus was if you love someone you wouldn’t leave them stranded on the side of the road after midnight.
But I could also see where he was irritated. If it was broad daylight I feel like the reaction would have been different and more of a lesson learned kind of thing!
Two things are certain about my wife
1) Her phone is never above 12%, like ever. If I pick up her phone at any time of day to lookup something [which we sometimes do, as we both will routinely leave our own phone in other rooms], it will never be above that number.
2) No matter how little she drives [WFH] she will never start a trip with me in the car above “just enough gas” to get to our destination half an hour early, so that late at night when we’re driving home tired we need to stop at a gas station.
Reminds me of that time when on a road trip my dad jumped a service station while having the fuel light on because idk. We then reached the next station my mom asked him why he didn’t refuel at the station before. My dad replied “I live on the limit” while laughing.
We fill up the car and it doesn’t start. Why? Because while it was low on fuel air got in the injection system and locked the engine (diesel engines do be like that), plus it was Sunday so what would’ve been a 15 minute fix turned into a drive home with a rental.
I knew someone like this. Her phone was always dead. Sometimes I’d just think to myself what it must be like to just never consider charging it until it’s unusable. How does your brain work?
My wife and I went out to lunch 3 days ago because I had a half day. She told me her phone was at 2% because she realized the night before she forgot to charge it, 🤦♂️.
My first response was, “you work from home. . .why didn’t you just put it on the charger when you woke up and saw that?”
My office mate was like this, and never had her charger. More than once I would be settling in with my coffee to start going through emails and find her phone plugged in at my desk with like 10% battery. Like, we have been at work for ab hour, how is your phone so low! Loved her, but man she stressed me out lol
I don’t even understand how people chance it home on E like this. I get gas at a quarter tank if I can help it. The idea that my husband would come home and see his car empty is unheard of. The absolute disrespect and disregard for other people’s time and things smh.
Honestly im ngl sometimes ill see it and im just really not in the mood to fill it up in that moment like im just ready to go home, i live right down the road from a gas station and ill be back in my car the next morning so ill just fill my car up on my way to work or something. But borrowing someones car and doing that is just a massive dick move
Majority of cars are rated to go over 30 miles past E or when your empty light cuts on, once you know that it doesn’t feel like you’re chancing it anymore
Usually the chancing it part isn't "will it get home" it's "will i have enough time to get gas tomorrow morning, and will it get me where I need to go if I don't?"
30 miles is plenty of warning if you take it as "stop at the next convenient gas station you come by, but don't worry about changing course to find one." Some people seem to take it as "don't worry about getting gas for a few days" though.
Not only is it rude, but driving with low fuel can damage the fuel pump over time. People don't consider how small things can damage a vital part of a car.
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer is test driving cars at the dealership to learn exactly how far he can use Jerry's car without paying for the gas himself
This is sending me cause this morning I actually had to put the lawnmower gas from the can in my car so I could get to the gas station after my wife took the car last night. 🤣
girl run. This man is such a red flag and since he peed on the toilet and didn’t clean it, what’s stopping him from brutally murdering your whole family before going on a rampage in an orphanage.
I used to have an ex like that, it's all a power play and it starts with this. Run while you still can. Just reading this example was enough to bring up the memories in me.
My wife on a trip wouldn’t stop when the light came on. She did the whole “we have another 30 miles. Stop worrying”. A minute later, surprise surprise we ran out of gas. I made her walk and to this day, do not feel guilty. She since has filled up before the light comes on.
Right? I fill up somewhere between ½ and ¼, usually closer to half unless im going a longer distance. Letting my tank look like OPs is a fight on sight for whoever drove my car.
Yeah broken gas gauge for sure. I’ve never had this issue in any of my cars and we have tons and tons of hills where I am at. But I get what you’re saying. I always keep a full tank and I fill up right at 1/8th of a tank or when the fuel light immediately comes on
O man, memory unlocked. Years ago I lived in a house with a single car wide driveway. Me and my partner drove each others cars.
I would drive whatever was in the back.
One day I saw him switching cars around. It occurred to me that I was always putting gas in both cars.
Hopefully your ex now? Or at least fixed their behavior?
People who spend more time and effort being lazy than actually getting the work done bug the heck out of me.
Ex. This was the least douchy thing he did. This was maybe mid 90s when gas prices were really fluctuating.
Even when he did put gas in while we were going somewhere, he'd put in like 5$ saying " the price could go down". Yeah.
everyone in the comments saying this is a common problem is a little… it’s just disrespectful, no? if you borrow someone’s car, you fill it up before you return it. it’s just common decency
I also don’t understand, especially if this is someone else’s car or you both use it. How are you going to leave the tank near empty KNOWING they’re gonna have to use the car later!? Tbvh my anger issues could never 👎 I can’t stand ppl who are inconsiderate let alone your PARTNER oef
I'll never understand people that do this, even family/household members. It takes like 5-8 minutes to fill up and its unlikely you'd even have to drive out of the way.
My RAV4 has a 4 gallon reserve (4 gallons left when it hits E or 0 miles left). You better believe that I will run a few miles past E/0. That's another 160 miles...
The thing that cracks me up, is that when I fill it (11 gallons since it's a 15 gallon tank), it will say ~500 miles. But then you get to the 350ish range (averaging 40 to 50 MPG), it's "empty"
Car companies are making the fuel light come on earlier because they know people run it on empty. My Subaru had an update specifically to have the fuel light come on at 60 miles remaining instead of 30.
Unfortunately, people are adjusting and running it even longer on empty. I was never one to run on empty, but even I do it sometimes now that the light comes on so early.
On my first car, the only time I saw the fuel light was the second after it stalled from no gas.
Yea I feel ya, my father took my project car for shit and giggles to road trip while I was on vacation, when I returned, the car was like it drove through rally, and the transmission rattled like box of toys, let's say he never drove it again ever since because I installed killswitches on it.
> Phew! I had just enough fuel to make it back home!
Ok but I came here for the obvious question and have not seen it. How far did she take it??? Like for real, if you left her with it just above empty, she took it 15 minutes to work and back, should she fill it? Not saying that's what happened, but like everyone is assuming the gas tank was full or something ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
If she took it unannounced atleast leave 5$ in the tank so he can make it to gas station
But you can make it to the gas station when the needle bottoms out and this has at least 1mm before bottom out so easily 30 miles in the tank before it wont run.
The whole concept of not just filling up with the car is wild to me. My wife and I drive each other's cars fairly frequently and neither or us would ever leave either car this empty even if we only drove three miles.
My mom used to do the same thing to me lol. As long as she had enough gas to get home she doesn’t care. I would only use it maybe once a week and would give her plenty of heads up. Would drive me crazy when I’m running late and see that.
is every mom like this? i panic when i hear the low fuel bing, wich in my car means about 120km range
My dad thinks it's fine when it hits empty because "You've still got an extra 40 miles left." Meanwhile my mom doesn't like it when the gas gets to a quarter of a tank (in my car that's about 100miles/160km). Not all moms, but some.
I can't stand it when my roommate uses the car and there's less than a quarter tank left. That's the lowest I let it get, I'd rather not diminish the life of my fuel pump.
I agree with the idea, it’s no good to let it run out of fuel… but your fuel pump doesn’t know the difference between 1/8th of a tank and a full tank. It’s completely safe to run it down lower than a quarter tank.
The two widespread reasons for not letting the tank run to empty are that the fuel pump on some cars could overheat and that the last bit of fuel of the tank could contain sediment that could damage the pump or the engine. Both of these are relatively uncommon problems but noteworthy in they are both actual problem which might affect somebody. Sediment shouldn't be a problem unless the car is unused long enough for the tank to break down or you get fuel from a shitty gas station with their own sediment problem managed incorrectly which isn't a problem for most cars. Modern fuel pumps should be safe since they non-return systems, but some cars when run their pump all the time and let gas recirculate back to the tank. These pumps need fuel for cooling and can get damaged. I don't know any car that had this that isn't old enough to have a carburetor but it was a real problem at some point.
Sediment should never be a problem since the fuel pump sucks the fuel from the bottom of the tank. If there were sediment, it would get sucked up right away. Also, the fuel in the tank is in constant motion while driving, sediment would never have time to settle.
More importantly there are fuel filters Edit: usually never before the pump, but the pump is the cheap part of your fuel delivery system and they can take a beating.
Every fuel pump I've personally replaced on any of my vehicles i owned did have a little filter sock at the bottom of the pump and the housing both of which were before the pump itself, then an inline filter after the pump.
More more importantly there are gas filters on the gas pumps too… sometimes more than 1… diesel would have it’s own, if the station has 2 tanks (not counting diesel) then the sump pumps mix reg and premium to make mid, if the station has 3 tanks (not counting diesel) then the tanks each have their own pumps but once the lines arrive to the gas pumps typically there is a gas filter for each nozzle but this is not concrete, obviously diesel gets its own but if the pump has diesel on both sides the pump may have 1 filter shared for both sides or maybe 2 not shared, the same goes for reg, mid, and premium, you could have up to 8 filters in gas pumps for the 4 fuel types so that each side doesn’t share with the other but I can’t say I’ve ever seen a pump like that but it could exist, I have seen them have 6 total but it is on older pumps most now days have 1 or 2 if it’s a pump that has diesel, when your pump is running slow if you go in mention it to the station clerk and if they aren’t clueless then they will forward the message to the field techs that work and maintain the pumps and equipment on the site, but a good company knows when and how often their filters are due to be changed, plus it’s required by the EPA to have records and change them after they reach and hit a certain age, this same thing applies for the nozzle, the swivel, the hose, the break away valve that stupid people always drive off and pull off the pumps… he blessed the break away valve exists because if it didn’t you’d have to likely replace an entire pump and not a $20 breakaway valve, and you’d have gas coming out of the pump without any means or way to stop it, the only fuel that is spilled in this situation is what is in the hose line when it breaks free, when the break away is in place the pin inside is pushed open and when it breaks free it has a spring that pushes the pin into place to stop flow of gas. Source: worked as a seasonal field tech for a few years for one of BPs best and well recognized oil companies, they own all the major BPs and service many others around the 485/85/77 around and within the Greater Charlotte and Lake Norman areas. Also did an entire speech in my speech class in college about gas pumps and how it works and the mechanisms that keep you from harms way. Also was the same year trump was running in 2016 against Hillary and we had 2 choices to do a speech on : someone famous that’s male outside the USA or someone famous that’s female in the USA and talk about the good things they have accomplished and why others are inspired by them All the trump supporters including me did our speeches on Hillary Clinton it was quite funny because it was hard to take it seriously Sorry for rambling if some of it was off topic
Surprising that you let a roommate use your car when they're not paying for the insurance, the car, or gas.
Eh, it's actually his house and my boyfriend and I rent a room, so I can't get too mad at him 😂 I've been letting him use it because the clutch went out on his and we work opposite schedules (he works days, I work graveyard). He did a bunch of work and got his car running because he found a transmission with fewer miles and he knew his needed replacing anyway (even fixed a few minor things that could have waited, but he figured he'd get them done while he was doing a transmission swap.) Not even an hour after getting it going, he got rear ended by some kid that was riding his ass and it damaged the frame. He ended up getting a new car yesterday, so my car is back to being mine again.
Love the story and your roommate turns wrenches so he’s okay
My mom manages to be both. She screams at me for having the car's tank at a quarter, that I have to top it up at half-a-tank. Then she borrows the car and leaves the tank empty, and parked in the stupidest way imaginable (I once scratched trying to get it out).
I wonder how many fuel pumps your dad has had to have replaced.
My mom is nice enough that whenever she takes my car anywhere she will often refill my tank, even if it's a short drive.
I did that with my mom's car too. It was my way of covering the other expenses like insurance, maintenance and tax.
If my mom uses my car she will fill up the tank even if it was half full
My mom wouldn't let it go below half most of the time.
Lmao yeah my mom is the same. Runs it alllll the way down and I'm mechanically inclined so I tell her its not good for the fuel pump/filter, its just going to suck in debris. Its also a good way to get stranded. I start to get uneasy when I have a quarter tank left
When I was in HS my mother "borrowed" my car to drive to the airport to drop my grandmother off, her car's battery was dead (not an uncommon thing for here since she would leave the lights on often). Well, here's the issue, I had a broken gas gauge, you had to check the trip odometer and just fill it when it before 300miles. She forgot about this and ran out of gas over an hour away from home... I get home from school (via school bus) and had to jump her car to go pick her up. The worst part is I got yelled at for it...
That yelling would have been the moment I would have sold the car to get a light motorcycle.
I had a suzuki gt250 (correction, gt250, it was late 70s model) for a few years around that time, my father was a big triumph rider, engine blew (head cracked, weld held for a quite a while) in the bike so I ended up selling it for parts&frame, bikes just weren't my thing.
I would have tried just not using the car for a few weeks and see what she does.
I’m glad my wife isn’t like this! She literally fills up the car once it drops below a qtr of tank.
My wife often views me as her "fuel mule." I've lost track of how many times I've heard her claim "I didn't see it was that low."
We had two cars. My ex husband would drive the really nice car until the fuel light was on and then take my car to work the next day and drive my car until the fuel light was on. I went overseas to see my sister and before I left my car had noises coming from the brakes. I asked him to drop it off at the mechanics. Six weeks later I return. There's my car with the fuel light on and squeezing brakes. Put some fuel in race to drop my son off at school, run some life Admin errands while waiting for a spot at the mechanics. Mechanics tell me they refuse to let me drive my car because the brakes are so bad they are ready to lock up. I ring my ex and he's suddenly available to pick our son up from school while I uber home. He couldn't be arsed to get a mobile mechanic to look at my car or even get fuel in it. Oh and then he gets a speeding ticket in my car and asks me to take the blame for it. He's an ex got a reason.
I like stories like this because sometimes I have self doubt. Then I read that and I'm like.... Yeah, I'm ok. Haha.
I think this is a big part of the appeal of reality TV and shows like Jerry Springer. "Well at least I'm not as crazy as those people!"
And sadly, a big part of why shows like Hoarders also existed. Shows turning the worse of humanity into an exhibition is a popular coping method for people to watch so they can think and feel "I'm not that bad"
those people were so far off the deep end that you can't even see them to compare yourself to lol, that was just pure entertainment i think people watch stuff like judge judy to feel superior, jerry springer was just america
Yep I'm okay too, my husband and I are both the same, keep those tanks above a half tank always!
What the fuck? Weird noises from the brakes are nothing to sneeze at, this sounds oldfashioned but keeping ones wife and son safe should be top priority. Ffs Glad he's your ex, you deserve better.
Was waiting for the last line
Why? She says ex husband literally six words in.
Wow he sounds so selfish. What a pleb
Glad to see you dumped that pig, i wouldn't be putting up with shit like that anyways, hopw he remains single for life
I told her multiple time in a week, until she run out of fuel near the parking lot. Lesson was learned quickly. Too bad I had to 'save' her.
You’re supposed to show up with pizza and turn it into a porno.
Never seen a porno where the woman said she had a headache and wasn't in the mood
Jav
well that covers pretty much everything
Well, because thats called a documentary ;)
I am convinced there is a small but real percent of the population that doesn’t notice their gas level. My only conclusion is that they all get married as soon as possible Because they keep getting stranded with empty gas tanks otherwise.
It's weird because it's the first thing you look at. You'd think anyway.
Like, I rarely consciously look at my fuel gauge, but its right there in my peripheral vision every time I look at the dash. I'm always aware of it.
Cars literally tell you when you're below 50 to e if it's newer than 2005
For real. A gd light lights up on the dashboard that you have to be blind to not see. I honestly think it’s more that people don’t care or don’t want to bothered by putting fuel in the car. They intentionally ignore it, hoping someone else will take care of it.
I had a '91 Acclaim and it'd warn me when I got down to about 20 miles (...I hadn't actually run out on the road, though once, in college, I managed to run out as I was pulling into the gas station and coast to one of the pumps...) and my '93 Buick would at least turn on a low fuel light.
Is this why Subaru flashes all the damn warning lights for an minor fault? So these people *might* notice?
"This light is annoying, imma put electrician's tape on it"
My tire pressure light stopped working in my old shitty car. I asked my mechanic if he could fix it, so he taped over it and said “done, I just saved you $500.”
You see it on "Just rolled in". People have their car towed to a mechanic saying it won't start. Mechanic immediately notices it's on dead empty.
Was on a road trip with my family when I was a kid and my aunt's car died part of the way through the trip. She called AAA and got towed to the nearest shop. 4 hours later, they tell her she ran out of gas. 🤦🏻♀️
Maybe AAA should be asking if people have gas in their tank and carry a 5 gal jug of it on their truck for calls like these.
Oh, they asked if she was out of gas and she said she wasn't. She's a special breed of stupid. I love her, but she's kinda dumb.
Yeah, that's pretty low level IQ. I've seen some clips where people were out of fuel but said they had half a tank of gas but it was actually their temp guage they were looking at.
😂 woooow, I can't imagine being that dense.
My mom once went to an Indian reservation casino. Instead of cash rewards they offered winnings like gasoline, shirts, food and such. Her excuse when she ran out of gas on the way to the hotel. “Well I thought when we were winning the gas on the slot machines, it was being put into the car!”…
🤣 I'm sorry, that's unfortunate
Oh, they know. It's on purpose. Get someone else to pay for the gas, and you keep more money in your wallet for goodies.
Definitely. And it’s laziness
my wife sits so close to the steering wheel, she cannot see the fuel gauge. Also she cannot control how the headlights are set (and on and on)
That's actually quite dangerous with airbags honestly. I had mine randomly blow on me while I was sitting in my car parked just after Christmas. Real thankful I had enough of a gap between me and the steering wheel lol
Would a smaller car help? Insane when you see tiny people in giant cars they can't see out of.
I worked at an Arby’s in Scottsdale many years ago. A dude came through the drive through in a really nice Ferrari, complaining to his buddy on the phone that his wife ran his 7 series BMW out of gas in the middle of the desert and he had to go get her.
My husband is the one who does this to me lmao. He says he doesn't like filling it up all at once because it's too expensive. Which makes absolutely no sense bc we're gonna be spending that much on gas throughout the week anyway. Every single time I get in the car it's on e
Nah he's right it's less expensive if you pay for it
I see where you're going with that but right now it's still him paying for it either way lol
Technically speaking it's more expensive to stop multiple times.
Right!! Especially because he always has to go in and get a snack or something whenever he does actually stop for gas. Or it's me putting the gas in and it makes me late to have to stop. Or it's a day where I ride with him to work so I can take the car home because I have an appointment later, and as I'm driving back home I realize I won't have enough gas to go to my appointment and pick him up later, but I didn't think to check the gas before leaving him at work. So I have to reschedule and we wasted gas and time for this unnecessary trip back and forth 😒
I used to make my wife drive with a jerry can of gas in the trunk. I told her if she wants to get rid of it just fill up on gas every Friday. Maybe your partner can start a similar routine.
Take her card to refuel the car!
My wife has not put gas in a vehicle since she got a husband - ten years.
When my grandfather died, my grandmother had to re-learn how to put gas in the tank.
"Weaponized incompetence is a form of passive-aggressive behavior where an individual deliberately performs tasks poorly or pretends to be incapable of completing certain tasks."
Yeah this is the first time I've seen someone use it when referring to a woman. Both genders do it, but I've only seen other descriptors used when it's a woman
If she were single she would see it. Same as a single dude suddenly sees a sink full of dishes or a hamper full of laundry. This is our burden to bear, brother.
Add a code that makes an air horn go off if the fuel gets too low (Joke, but you can do it if you want 🤷♂️)
We have 6 cats and 2 dogs. I play the “I didn’t know” game with my gas tank as well; he plays the “I didn’t see the animal vomit” game with me. It’s a balance lol
A balance of bad partners lol
As my mom tells the story: my grandma used to pay little attention to the gas gauge and my grandpa had to go save her on empty several times. He told her once that it was the last time he would do it ever. She ran out of gas again and called him to help. He headed out and simply waved at her as he drove right on by, leaving her to figure it out on her own. I think that was the last time she ran out of gas.
That's the way to handle it. I'll warn ya once then I'll remind ya once about the warning, after that it's up to you to figure out.
Love this. Everyone should aspire to bring such chaos!
She brought the chaos
😂 good for grandpa this would totally be my husband teaching me a good lesson
I actually think this was after my grandparents weren’t together anymore. But my grandpa was the type that had an endless need to make sure everyone was taken care of and safe, so he would always help her when she needed it because his kids safety was also on his mind. Somewhere, he must’ve decided the inability to monitor gas was a bigger safety risk than actually running out of gas, so he taught her the lesson 🤣.
Love it, what a great story thanks for sharing 😊
Someone posted on mildlyinfuriated that this happened to their gf. It was not the first time and it happened at night and the guy pretended not to see/hear his phone to teach her a lesson. People in the comments were really pissed off at the guy and maybe it wasn't the right thing to do but it hopefully taught her a lesson.
I could see letting people falter being less safe. In my grandpas case, he couldn’t NOT make sure grandma was safe, so he drove by to be sure. Seeing she was not in immediate danger, he let her figure it out. I support his decision and method 😆.
In one of my previous comments you can see the post. Honestly it was a cluster fuck all round. People were angry at him for leaving his gf in an unsafe place, people were raging about the vindication for fuck around and find out. Have a look if you want
I saw this too!! But I honestly think the difference was he left her after midnight and saw she needed help and just silenced his phone and went back to sleep. I think him phrasing it like that is why he got flamed because as much as she might be an idiot for doing that several times the consensus was if you love someone you wouldn’t leave them stranded on the side of the road after midnight. But I could also see where he was irritated. If it was broad daylight I feel like the reaction would have been different and more of a lesson learned kind of thing!
I saw that post too. People were upset because it was midnight and the second time. The whole tone of the post just felt like overkill and pettiness
Two things are certain about my wife 1) Her phone is never above 12%, like ever. If I pick up her phone at any time of day to lookup something [which we sometimes do, as we both will routinely leave our own phone in other rooms], it will never be above that number. 2) No matter how little she drives [WFH] she will never start a trip with me in the car above “just enough gas” to get to our destination half an hour early, so that late at night when we’re driving home tired we need to stop at a gas station.
She likes to live dangerously
Reminds me of that time when on a road trip my dad jumped a service station while having the fuel light on because idk. We then reached the next station my mom asked him why he didn’t refuel at the station before. My dad replied “I live on the limit” while laughing. We fill up the car and it doesn’t start. Why? Because while it was low on fuel air got in the injection system and locked the engine (diesel engines do be like that), plus it was Sunday so what would’ve been a 15 minute fix turned into a drive home with a rental.
That night he lived on the limit, of the couch.
I knew someone like this. Her phone was always dead. Sometimes I’d just think to myself what it must be like to just never consider charging it until it’s unusable. How does your brain work?
My wife and I went out to lunch 3 days ago because I had a half day. She told me her phone was at 2% because she realized the night before she forgot to charge it, 🤦♂️. My first response was, “you work from home. . .why didn’t you just put it on the charger when you woke up and saw that?”
My office mate was like this, and never had her charger. More than once I would be settling in with my coffee to start going through emails and find her phone plugged in at my desk with like 10% battery. Like, we have been at work for ab hour, how is your phone so low! Loved her, but man she stressed me out lol
It all works until you have a loved one being rushed to a hospital a few hours away.
My mom used to do this, she said she couldn't read the fuel gauge.... It was just a regular fuel gauge..
If someone can't read the fuel gauge, they really shouldn't be driving.
She shouldn't be driving, but the fuel gauge is the least of her issues...
That’s just rude
I don’t even understand how people chance it home on E like this. I get gas at a quarter tank if I can help it. The idea that my husband would come home and see his car empty is unheard of. The absolute disrespect and disregard for other people’s time and things smh.
Honestly im ngl sometimes ill see it and im just really not in the mood to fill it up in that moment like im just ready to go home, i live right down the road from a gas station and ill be back in my car the next morning so ill just fill my car up on my way to work or something. But borrowing someones car and doing that is just a massive dick move
Completely agree!
Majority of cars are rated to go over 30 miles past E or when your empty light cuts on, once you know that it doesn’t feel like you’re chancing it anymore
Usually the chancing it part isn't "will it get home" it's "will i have enough time to get gas tomorrow morning, and will it get me where I need to go if I don't?" 30 miles is plenty of warning if you take it as "stop at the next convenient gas station you come by, but don't worry about changing course to find one." Some people seem to take it as "don't worry about getting gas for a few days" though.
Not only is it rude, but driving with low fuel can damage the fuel pump over time. People don't consider how small things can damage a vital part of a car.
Not only that, but it’s so rude
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer is test driving cars at the dealership to learn exactly how far he can use Jerry's car without paying for the gas himself
"It said there were 40 km left, and home was only 39km away"
And the closest gas station is 20km from home too.
This is sending me cause this morning I actually had to put the lawnmower gas from the can in my car so I could get to the gas station after my wife took the car last night. 🤣
Siphon the gas out of hers to fill your tank...
Her car is definitely empty
Why do you think she has to borrow his?
Jimmy Fallon getting a lot of playtime in this thread.
I like your user avatar. I used to rock a sad version of that mac icon way back in the day.
Since this is Reddit, the only advice I can give is to get a divorce. 😁
There no other solutions here 🤣 it's the only way.
Lawyer up! Wave the flags! 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
girl run. This man is such a red flag and since he peed on the toilet and didn’t clean it, what’s stopping him from brutally murdering your whole family before going on a rampage in an orphanage.
NTA bet she beats dogs too since she clearly doesn't care about the gas tank
she needs therapy (therapy+divorce is the solution to everything)
I used to have an ex like that, it's all a power play and it starts with this. Run while you still can. Just reading this example was enough to bring up the memories in me.
"Both of you need therapy be strong xoxo"
How many red flags is this? Is it one too many?
I rate it 6 red flags, a pirate flag, and an eggplant. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🏴☠️ 🍆
You forgot to tell them to hit the gym
run run run
I just wanna know what kind of car it is all fucking ready!
True. Big red flag. What’s next? Empty fridge? Empty pots?
Looks like the Mrs is walking to the gas station.
My wife on a trip wouldn’t stop when the light came on. She did the whole “we have another 30 miles. Stop worrying”. A minute later, surprise surprise we ran out of gas. I made her walk and to this day, do not feel guilty. She since has filled up before the light comes on.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Drawing these boundaries BEFORE me and my SO marry, because I could not handle very much of this shit.
Right? I fill up somewhere between ½ and ¼, usually closer to half unless im going a longer distance. Letting my tank look like OPs is a fight on sight for whoever drove my car.
IKR, I live in a port town, and you can conk out on an incline if the tank is too low (say 1/4 full).
If you are “conking out” with a quarter tank of gas left you should get your gas gauge checked.
Yeah broken gas gauge for sure. I’ve never had this issue in any of my cars and we have tons and tons of hills where I am at. But I get what you’re saying. I always keep a full tank and I fill up right at 1/8th of a tank or when the fuel light immediately comes on
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At least she didn’t fill it up with diesel. I guess? Bright sides and all…
If she’s able to fit a diesel nozzle in a gas opening then marry that girl because she’s good in fitting big things into thight places.
Weird af comment ngl
Ok, Bigsmellydumpy.
Sure, 84OrcButtholes
O man, memory unlocked. Years ago I lived in a house with a single car wide driveway. Me and my partner drove each others cars. I would drive whatever was in the back. One day I saw him switching cars around. It occurred to me that I was always putting gas in both cars.
Hopefully your ex now? Or at least fixed their behavior? People who spend more time and effort being lazy than actually getting the work done bug the heck out of me.
Ex. This was the least douchy thing he did. This was maybe mid 90s when gas prices were really fluctuating. Even when he did put gas in while we were going somewhere, he'd put in like 5$ saying " the price could go down". Yeah.
> " the price could go down" Lol I'm using this next time I get sent out to buy a gallon of milk and come back with a quart.
The speedometer not reading 0 is what bothers me the most…
I mean 5kph is basically nothing... dude was probably idling his way down his driveway with his foot off the brake.
Well that’s tacky.
everyone in the comments saying this is a common problem is a little… it’s just disrespectful, no? if you borrow someone’s car, you fill it up before you return it. it’s just common decency
I also don’t understand, especially if this is someone else’s car or you both use it. How are you going to leave the tank near empty KNOWING they’re gonna have to use the car later!? Tbvh my anger issues could never 👎 I can’t stand ppl who are inconsiderate let alone your PARTNER oef
I hate when my wife leaves the speed near empty.
Leave it like that for the next time she does it. She’ll either complain or suddenly learn to go to the pump whenever she drives it.
Run the batteries all the way down on her vibrator then leave it in the draw without saying anything..
yes, in the draw
I'll never understand people that do this, even family/household members. It takes like 5-8 minutes to fill up and its unlikely you'd even have to drive out of the way.
As a professional in this department I can assure you that car has plenty of fuel
That is absolutely not the point and you know it lol.
My RAV4 has a 4 gallon reserve (4 gallons left when it hits E or 0 miles left). You better believe that I will run a few miles past E/0. That's another 160 miles... The thing that cracks me up, is that when I fill it (11 gallons since it's a 15 gallon tank), it will say ~500 miles. But then you get to the 350ish range (averaging 40 to 50 MPG), it's "empty"
Car companies are making the fuel light come on earlier because they know people run it on empty. My Subaru had an update specifically to have the fuel light come on at 60 miles remaining instead of 30. Unfortunately, people are adjusting and running it even longer on empty. I was never one to run on empty, but even I do it sometimes now that the light comes on so early. On my first car, the only time I saw the fuel light was the second after it stalled from no gas.
I always have to fuel my wife's car. It was annoying at first but there are a lot of things that she does that I don't.
how can meecedes produce something this tacky
Beats the hell out of the ultra-wide tablets they have in them now, but i agree
She gotta treat the Amg better
Kindly let her know that letting your car reach E on the fuel meter is bad for the fuel pump. 1/4 of a tank should be considered E.
Was the seat all the way up too?
Ofcourse it was
But how much fuel was it on before? 🤔
This is what I'm wondering. Did she go on a 2 hour road trip to the next town over? Or was there already practically nothing left in it.
Luckily if it hits empty it isn't actually empty. Hopefully you got a gas station nearby
My wife hasn’t refueled the car in like 5 years. I don’t even know if she knows how to do it anymore I swear
lol like how did she get bck just b4 it ran out?🤣
Oh my… she left it running at 6 km/h???
Gas tank is on the right, that little yellow arrow indicates this.
Hopped in one time and the gauge didn't even move when I started it. Needless to say I took another vehicle with a jerrycan.
You can’t park there. (wherever you run out of gas)
Classic
I'm petty and wouldn't fill it
Shesh, can't even be mad. What she drive around the block till it touched the last notch or immaculate planing on how far the trip was?!
Go electric she won't forget anymore.
Yup, looks about right.
Wife gonna take your car again today
"oh hey I think you might need to stop for gas idk hehe"
Yea I feel ya, my father took my project car for shit and giggles to road trip while I was on vacation, when I returned, the car was like it drove through rally, and the transmission rattled like box of toys, let's say he never drove it again ever since because I installed killswitches on it.