I was pulling up to the closest gas pump today, when another car flies up behind me and almost rear ends me. I was thinking about moving up to the next pump, when they start honking at me. Put my car in park and turn it off.
Fuck you Princess, I was going to be nice and move up until you got bitchy. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you have to back up before you could drive around my car because you were so close behind me.
Maybe if you smiled and pointed at the next pump I would move. I would be even more inclined to do that if you didn’t try to push me to it. But HELL NO I ain’t gonna move for a self centered moron.
BTW, Princess was a balding middle aged guy, in a big SUV. My wife was wondering if there was going to be a fight, but the a-hole never looked towards me when I was pumping gas and staring at him.
Yeah and then karma bit my ass at the cash register when the guy in front of me took 10 minutes to pay for $2.67 worth of rolling papers with a $100 bill and exactly 67 cents in change. And then had to find exact change to buy 2 portable ashtrays, and then did another sale for eggnog, and then left without his change. And then I almost hit a truck head on leaving the parking lot because that guy had to pull into the parking lot on his left side, my right. Let’s call it even.
I generally defer to random strangers with bad habits. It keeps me out of hospitals and jails and frankly it doesn’t bother me at all. My expectations for those I do not know are not high.
Wow, I would’ve just moved forward to the next pump. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do? Yeah, he’s an ass, but sinking to his level, in fact, you sank to lower then his level, you lost in this situation.
I always go to the last pump in the line (the one furthest down, if you know what I mean) when I can just so no one can pull in front of me and box me in.
A driver of the car ahead of me passed the open pump then stopped and went into reverse. Maybe he wanted to back into that slot because that’s where his gas cap was, but my gas cap was on the correct side so I slipped in behind him. He got all pissed and had to use an island a full 20 feet beyond it. Fuck him.
Some gas stations have arrows and you are supposed to enter from one side. In this case, automatic of course, whether there is a a guy behind you or not. However, other gas stations have equal access from two sides, so there might be a guy with his gas cap on your opposite side, waiting to get the second pump that you are pulling forward up into. In any event, seeing that a guy obviously was behind you and still parking in the first slot is pretty douch-ey.
I can’t imagine NOT pulling up to the front pump automatically. Sure, if someone’s already at the front pump, then I take the middle or back pump. But if the front pump is available, Miss Manners requires that people use it.
but I really do mean it.