I did it once. You pay first at pump, I went into store to get snacks, came back kids melting down in back seat, dealt with that, got in and forgot all about it. Remembered just as I pulled about 6 inches too far away. Oops.
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Imagine you get back after a long, hectic, infuriating day. You hear your car beep for fuel so you pull into a gas station.
You get out and you go through the motions of filling up your car. It is such a usual procedure you don't have to think any more. Which is good because you're using that time to think of choice words to describe your asshole boss.
You go into the station, pay and come back, still very much on autopilot while you think about your boss.
Except there's one motion you didn't go through. And now it haunts your gas tank forever. Until you take it off.
You pull up. Get out. Put the nozzle in. Then you go inside. There, you wait in line for 5 minutes, because the dick from another pump decided to buy a fucking coffee and a sandwich, and the only employee is busy making those for him, instead of operating the pumps. Then you actually pay and get the gas flowing. By the time you're back at the car, it's already finished pumping.
So, there can be a time gap of several minutes with multiple actions and distractions during it. Is it really that surprising people forget to pull the thing out, occasionally?
As where I live you pay for the gas after you have filled it up and you hold in the pump handle the entire time, with going inside to pay and return when it has finished pumping being impossible. So yes it is quite hard to imagine how people can forget it., it would require some skill to do that here.
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I don't know. In my country no gas can be paid unless the nozzle has been placed back. The machine registers as "still pumping", and the gas station attendant sees this and cannot process the payment. Why you would do this any other way baffles my mind.
Yeah, same here (most of Europe).
But I think Americans pay first then fill.
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In the US and other countries you can lock the noozle and fill up without holding the hoze. In EU you need to hold the hoze to fill up or press a button when you need LPG. It's pretty hard to forget something when you're standing next to it. (And still some people manage to do just that)
In the EU the nozzle handle also has a lock-in mechanism. But it looks like the main difference is that in the EU we can't pay until the nozzle is placed back on the support. That's what stops the pumping. Until then you're still paying.
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Judgey as fuck. People are not machines.
Done it before? lol
Nope. I'm just not dumb and cocky enough to believe I'm not going to forget something important.
It was a joke friend
I have never heard of it happen locally, but seen countless posts from US with hoses sticking out of cars. For the longest time I had no clue how they manage to do it, surely they aren't so much dumber than us?
Then I learned that american pumps are different to ours. Here you have to hold the trigger the entire time to pump, while there one can just leave it in and wander off.
We also have trigger-locks on EU pumps.
surely they aren't so much dumber than us?
LOL
Your not thinking about it. Muscle memory.
Something distracts you, a phone call, a loud sound, kids, suddenly remembering a urgent matter. You forgot where you were in the process and just skip a step.
Human nature. The same reason drivers can just run into a wall, car and train! Routine becomes ignore and you just forget / zone it out
This is why almost self driving cars are so dangerous. They will throw people into responsible driving mode and they won't have been paying attention.
So... OP....
I gotta ask... why this question? I feel like there's a story here.
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Coworker did it three times. Autopay by the nozzle, fuel cap on other side of the car, not looking at side mirrors, Bingo!
I don’t get this?
So they go out of the car, put the pump in, pumped it, forgot to take pump out, paid, went back into the car, and drove off?
With autopay the payment is done automatically by reading a proximity device on the filling hole, with credit/debit cards you put the card in to activate the pump, not at the end of pumping.
Go out of the car, put nozzle on other side of the car, go back inside the car waiting for it to be done, assume a station worker took the nozzle out, drive, hear a station worker screaming, drive back to return part of the pump.
Why would the fuel cap be on the other side of the car from the filly filly gas hole?
Fuel cap and filling hole on the passenger side and not on the driver side
Not only is that not what you said, but that doesn't inherently increase the risk of driving off with the nozzle in the car.
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Do some countries or areas have gas pumps that you just insert and then they pump without you constantly squeezing the handle? The ones I'm used to feel kinda impossible to forget because there is no reason to ever let go of the hose handle until it's back in place.
The USA is weird... You're in one State and you aren't allowed to put fuel in your car by yourself then you cross the border to the next State and you can put fuel by yourself AND you can do it without having to hold the nozzle while it's pumping...
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and you can't even pay until it's back in place
Er, you pay at the pump with your card beforehand in most places now
Yes, the ones here (California) can be set to keep pumping automatically until the tank is full and then stop.
But why would you leave the pump before it’s done? Even if you don’t have to hold the handle, what else are you going to do for 20 seconds.
Get out of the cold?
What kind of tank you have that fills up that fast?
Drinks? Piss?
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For anyone curious. this is how those things work.
I assume the only part missing for the european nozzles is the little latch that holds it open.
As a European: we got the latch.
Yep, the pin is removed. There are tools to act as pin available. (Nails for one)
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Aha, then I could easily see myself making that mistake during a tired and stressful day if my phone rang while paying or something.
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Super tired and defeated from your daily grind
How can you forget that the hose is still connected to your car when you drive off?
I think the key step here is to not remember it.
adhd prolly idk
Yeah I haven't done this with a gas nozzle, but I walk off without stuff I need and which I was just holding basically every day, so I will probably manage this feat of incredible stupidity eventually.