Gas
So I was picking up Olga from school and taking her to golf this afternoon, when I realized that my gas gauge was on "empty". So we stop at a gas station. For some weird reason the pump didn't seem to want to pump any gas in the car, and Olga was running late so I just took her to golf before figuring out how to work the pump. So then I headed to the closest gas station to the golf course and I ran out of gas about a hundred meters away from the gas station. I was able to cruise right into the gas station and pull up right to the pump. Now whatchu know about THAT precision, baby?
Comments
You're a gas guzzling god. Uh oh. I said "god." Here come the crazy people...
Posted by: Mark | August 30, 2006 08:56 PM
That is precision. Perhaps even more precision is required to do that than to juggle 7 clubs. Nah, what was I thinking.
Posted by: Kevin McDonald | August 31, 2006 02:12 AM
P.S. Only a Russian (or my friend Ted) would describe it as 100 METERS.
Posted by: Kevin McDonald | August 31, 2006 02:14 AM
"P.S. Only a Russian (or my friend Ted) would describe it as 100 METERS."
Or anyone on the planet who's not American (or possibly British). It is the standard method you know.
Posted by: PhysioMonkey | August 31, 2006 09:45 AM
Everyone except Americans and Carpenters. Lumber is still sized in imperial measurements, even if the British call it a "thumb" instead of an inch.
Posted by: Lachlan | August 31, 2006 02:21 PM
Oh yeah, here come's the Anti-American talk now, and just because we still use the imperial system...Actually to be honest with you America is becoming more and more metric all the time.
Anyway, Vova I had the same problem two days ago. I swiped my card at the pump and took the neccisary steps but when I pulled the lever...No GAS. Turns out that there was a lever that you had to pull up. It seems like every station is different.
Austin
Posted by: Austin | August 31, 2006 02:44 PM
nice sounds like fun
Posted by: chris Merra | August 31, 2006 04:24 PM
"Oh yeah, here come's the Anti-American talk now"
Oh yeah here comes the American paranoia now.
What on earth is anti-American to point out that everyone else uses a different system? It's an American oddity but hardly worth calling a failing.
Have fun.
Posted by: PhysioMonkey | August 31, 2006 04:28 PM
You be pimpen that gas :).
Posted by: Elizar | August 31, 2006 06:30 PM
thats cool thats cool i once
got exactly 100 with 5 balls
then i ran into a wall spooky huh
Posted by: jo | September 1, 2006 04:48 PM
thats cool thats cool i once
got exactly 100 with 5 balls
then i ran into a wall spooky huh
Posted by: jo | September 1, 2006 04:50 PM
PhysioMonkey,
I wasn't being too serious with that comment, but I could just imagine someone making a statement on how America is inferior because the imperial system is more dominant here.
I don't want to think that I'm paranoid, but I guess I could be. Don't I have good reason to be? You're right though, I did kind of jump the gun on that one, but hey, I'm a little sensative to all the negative that has been going around.
Austin
Posted by: Anonymous | September 1, 2006 09:32 PM
Yeah, I just spent a week in Agoura Hills buying gas for $3.25/gal every day! It's "only" $2.75/gal here in Fountain Hills.
Posted by: DAN | September 7, 2006 02:49 AM
Just to go on with the anti-Amrican posts:
Dont complain about gas prices!! Here in Italy it's 1.40 €/liter, that is 1,77 $, that means $6,71/gal. Pretty much isnt it?
Posted by: Nicoletta | September 13, 2006 09:20 AM
100 meters is the way to go... I ran track in college. I would have said 100 meters as well.
As for your car, what happens sometime is the rubber fume guard ring creates a seal around the rim of the aluminum of your gas tank. If you try to put in gas, the pressure inside the tank will increase, and the pump will *think* that you're full.
Either take the pump out and try again, or go to the next pump. This happened to someone over the summer but she wasn't as fortunate as you to end up 100 meters from a gas station.
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