Update
Being as I forgot to mention in my last post, I'll now proceed to tell you the story of filling up my car's gas tank for the first time.
JUST after getting my car, I go to fill up my car, right? It's maybe 4 blocks down the road. Easy.
So I pull up and do a, ehh, not a GREAT job, but a decent enough job parking next to the gas pump, I get out, there's a woman there, standing next to her truck. She asks if Liz or I have a dollar, because she needs to put gas in her tank so that she can go pick up her kid. Yes, a dollar. That's all she wanted.
I, being the guy I am, carry NO cash on me. Ever.
I assume she was going to go the "gather lots from various people" route.
You know, little from each to make lots idea.
Whatever. Fact is, I didn't have any cash on me.
I never do.
So I, being the guy I am, walk over to her pump, put my credit card in, and tell her to pump $10 worth of gas into her car lol She goes to $10.10, and says "Oh my gosh, I went 10 cents over! Is that okay???"
I chuckle and kinda roll my eyes and say "yeah, that's fine."
"My policy is if we all just do a little bit, the world would suck a lot less" and she said her thank you's, and then was on her merry way.
lol I then proceeded to go to my car and fill it to a bit more than 3/4 a tank, where twice the pump tried to tell me my tank was full. I just shrugged and said "ooookay" and ended at $16 something".
Went into the gas station, bought Liz and myself two hawaiian punches and a Squirt (which I've not had in ages and was quite good.)
From there, went out, popped open the cupholder next to the steering wheel and went on our way home.
Drove through the outer edge of a storm where, I kid you not, there were half dollar sized raindrops falling. Went through it all easily, decided after I'd passed it to get some thai food from Lemongrass Thai, which, as most of you have never had it, is AMAZING, so I, feeling gutsy, make the first U-turn of my life. I wasn't going to make it idling the whole way, and realized it about, ehh, I'll say almost halfway? So I gave it a little gas, which, to my luck and surprise, did exactly what I needed it to, and got me through the rest of the Uey (which I was completing in the far right lane), but because of the extra little umph I got, put me all the way back into the left lane as I was coming out of it, making me do something that looked a bit like an S. It was all safe and fine, because I had waited until the light had changed to do it, so there wasn't any other traffic waiting to hit me. Liz started laughing. It was pretty relieving. lol
Hope you all enjoyed this adventure. I'm sure there will be more.
Leah suggested Drive-Thrus next!
Who knows what mysteries the future holds! Tune in next time!
JUST after getting my car, I go to fill up my car, right? It's maybe 4 blocks down the road. Easy.
So I pull up and do a, ehh, not a GREAT job, but a decent enough job parking next to the gas pump, I get out, there's a woman there, standing next to her truck. She asks if Liz or I have a dollar, because she needs to put gas in her tank so that she can go pick up her kid. Yes, a dollar. That's all she wanted.
I, being the guy I am, carry NO cash on me. Ever.
I assume she was going to go the "gather lots from various people" route.
You know, little from each to make lots idea.
Whatever. Fact is, I didn't have any cash on me.
I never do.
So I, being the guy I am, walk over to her pump, put my credit card in, and tell her to pump $10 worth of gas into her car lol She goes to $10.10, and says "Oh my gosh, I went 10 cents over! Is that okay???"
I chuckle and kinda roll my eyes and say "yeah, that's fine."
"My policy is if we all just do a little bit, the world would suck a lot less" and she said her thank you's, and then was on her merry way.
lol I then proceeded to go to my car and fill it to a bit more than 3/4 a tank, where twice the pump tried to tell me my tank was full. I just shrugged and said "ooookay" and ended at $16 something".
Went into the gas station, bought Liz and myself two hawaiian punches and a Squirt (which I've not had in ages and was quite good.)
From there, went out, popped open the cupholder next to the steering wheel and went on our way home.
Drove through the outer edge of a storm where, I kid you not, there were half dollar sized raindrops falling. Went through it all easily, decided after I'd passed it to get some thai food from Lemongrass Thai, which, as most of you have never had it, is AMAZING, so I, feeling gutsy, make the first U-turn of my life. I wasn't going to make it idling the whole way, and realized it about, ehh, I'll say almost halfway? So I gave it a little gas, which, to my luck and surprise, did exactly what I needed it to, and got me through the rest of the Uey (which I was completing in the far right lane), but because of the extra little umph I got, put me all the way back into the left lane as I was coming out of it, making me do something that looked a bit like an S. It was all safe and fine, because I had waited until the light had changed to do it, so there wasn't any other traffic waiting to hit me. Liz started laughing. It was pretty relieving. lol
Hope you all enjoyed this adventure. I'm sure there will be more.
Leah suggested Drive-Thrus next!
Who knows what mysteries the future holds! Tune in next time!