Just don’t screw around, or you could end up dead in a freak gasoline-fight accident.
I need to start buying newer cars - I’ve never owned anything that had an interior indicator of where the damn gas cap is, and each subsequent car I’ve had has switched sides from the previous. I get so confused the first months of the ‘new’ car.
However I don’t think I’ve ever had an existential crisis over how to get the pump and the gas cap congruent if I picked the wrong side through inattention. Usually I just cuss wildly and move.
This is a totally different potential stupidity, but could the OPs lady customer have perhaps thought that submitting the payment would release a torrent of gas down the hose and therefore they needed to be warned that she wasn’t ready for it? I am really having troubles seeing how anyone would have difficulties realizing they needed to simply move.
The one I go to has pumps exactly like this - one island of two double sided pumps. If the right ones are filled up (for the gas tank on the left) you need to make a Uey inside the small amount of room available and back up to the left side. Massive pain - but gas is like ten cents a gallon cheaper then the places nearby, and they don’t charge extra for credit cards. I suspect the people inside have stories like the OP’s or worse.
At work we had a fleet of rental cars which had the tank on the right and an indicator pointing right to the fuel door. What it didn’t say was that the button to unlock the door to the gas tank was buried in the glove compartment. Messed up almost everyone the first time they needed gas, unless they were driving with someone who had learned about it.
30? That’s nothing. My mom, at 50, still hasn’t done it herself… 
Yep, pit-worthy. Not for pulling in on the wrong side to begin with, but for not having the mental acuity to figure out the fix for herself. God knows I’ve pulled in on the wrong side many times, but I always figured it out for myself.
I don’t understand either, but I assure you that you aren’t the only one. Lots of people don’t seem to understand that they can come in for change. They fret at the counter over “what if I don’t need all that gas?”, or, if they come back for change, apologize profusely as if they’ve done something wrong. People, it’s pretty standard to want to fill up the tank. Just gimme a few twenties and fill it.
Joe
Man, this thread’s got everything.
Do I just drive, borrow, and rent the wrong cars? I’ve never seen one of these indicators. Cool idea, but I’m not sure how ubiquitous they really are
Same here. We have a 2004 and 2006 vehicles from different manufactures/countries and neither has an indicator. Rental car last month, also no indicator:confused:
Then you’ll need an arrow on the visor pointing to the sticker on the dash which points to the indicator on the panel which shows you which side of the care the gas cap is on.
Simplicity itself!
Yes, and sometimes, when there’s a huge line, it’s very very hard to “just move the car around”. Esp if the lines require one way traffic, which is not unusual.
Y’know, when she pulled up to the pump and went to prepay in cash, she could have *looked *to see if she was parked on the correct side to begin with *before *committing to that pump.
Well, I’m not a male model, so hopefully the chances of that happening are slim. 
Aw. Poor engine.
Nope, extending sympathies doesn’t work.
Including an Energon Interface Port.
On many of the big green-and-white interregional buses that circulate around the Greater Toronto Area, there is a clearly-visible sticker in the driver’s compartment that says, MAX FUEL RANGE 1100 km. We need a similar sticker in cars as well. It will go nicely next to the arrow on the visor.
Hey, give joe a break – he’s a gas monkey, so that was a very significant event in his life.
Equating me with a monkey because I’m African-American is a fantastic idea…
Joe
NOW the thread has everything!
