I just had one of the worst pouring gas experience, ever.
Last weekend I headed to the gas station which ended up getting a little bit packed. I parked behind some guy’s car, who was in the middle of pouring gas, but as soon as he was done, he decides to clean the inside of his car! He’s taking junk out and putting them into the trashcan. After waiting for an extra four minutes I realized the man has a shitload of shit to throw away and wasn’t planning to leave anytime soon, so I looked for another spot, and from where I was looking, it looked empty.
I drove to that spot only to find a fucking gawddamn car hogging up all the space because his car was parked exactly between two pumps sitting beside each other. I waited for a whole minute and a half, looked at the car’s owner, and he looked at me, but looked away as if nothing was wrong. Before I could ask him to scoot his car up a little further so I can pour some gawddamn gas, the man who was cleaning out his car was gone, and his spot was available.
I drove back to my original spot and finally was able to pour gas. As I was waiting, I noticed that it took a little bit longer than usual, two seconds later, the gasoline starts to overflow! And when I mean overflow, I mean there was fucking fuel shooting out of the pocket, and it was getting all over my legs and feet. Now this was pretty weird because when you’re pouring gas and the tank gets full, you should hear a click and everything automatically stops, right? But mine didn’t, it kept on going, and LOTS of it.
I’m not panicking at the moment, I took the nozzle out of the filling entry and it’s STILL running. Remember the scene in Zoolander where the guys were having a gasoline fight? Yeah it looked something like that. Except only one person was holding a running nozzle, and I did not have orange mocha frappuccino that day.
Turns out that the latch that locks your handle so it could run by itself, was jammed, and I wasn’t able to unlock it. At this point, I’m panicking like a little bitch. I drop the nozzle and run inside to get the cashier, as the running fuel continues to spread throughout the floor like a fucking disease.
“Dude my thing is overflowing, you gotta help me, there’s gasoline everywhere!” These weren’t my exact words, I was too nervous and too scared at the time to remember what had actually happen.
The cashier man looks at me with a blank face, then in his heavy Mexican accent he belches, “Wath do you think you’re thrying to pool aye? You theenk iz funny huh? You theenk iz real funny!”
Oh my gosh, he doesn’t believe me.
“No, no, no, it really is. You gotta check it out, my thing is overflowing! It’s everywhere on the floor!”
After a few desperate attempts of convincing the cashier that I got Old Faithful running right outside of the store, I’m like fuck it, I bolted out and noticed a man at my station, trying to turn off the nozzle which I had failed to stop.
When he finally got it to stop, he said, “You better go now, someone might drop a cigarette!”
Taking my savior’s advice, I sped off, fast, before a cigarette could even be lit. Hands were trembling like a leaf, feet reeked of gasoline, and couldn’t stop thinking about the terrorizing thought of pouring gas again.
OMG scary! I think I’m scared now to pump gas. I had that happen once where the gas was spewing out like the exorcist, but it was my fault. I heard the click, but I’m usually able to get a new more pumps in there, but it didn’t click again…just shot back out at me….but nothing ever like that. Glad you’re ok. And that station attendent should be fired.
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That is really scary, I’m happy you got out of there quick. I hope they took care of that and cleaned everything out. It’s really hazardous. How are you now?
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I’d definitely be freaked out. <–Captain Obvious. And yeah, wtf @ the attendant. How many people would try to say stuff like that as a prank? At least someone there got it to stop though.
I don’t know if gas stations around here have nozzles that lock like that. It seems like you -have- to hold the thing yourself. I don’t pay a lot of attention though.
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aww poor tiff! wash your car and yourself down. thats all i can say. we don’t want u up in flames and shit.
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LMAO nice
the mexican accent part had me rollin
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Oh geez! I hope you are okay! I was reading that laughing/saying “ohmigawd” the whole time. Only because I remember when this happened to me when me and my mom were on our way somewhere and I sprayed gasoline all over myself and she says in heavy african, “Ehh, go home and stay home. You smell so NASTY!” I hope you got rid of the gasoline smell and I hope everything will be okay! It is a good thing no one was stupid enough to light a cigarette and blow that place to pieces.
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That’s why I always hold on to the nozzle when pumping gas. Even when people suggest using the auto click thingy, I don’t trust it. -_-
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You know.. I’ve never pumped my own gas before so I don’t know how to do it. *GASP. It’s because my city has full-service everywhere. I did pump once when I went to the states but forgot how. LOL.
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That is so fucking scary! I’m glad you got out of there alive and didn’t catch fire.
I did something similar in the past.. but mine was out of my own stupidity. I THOUGHT I had locked it but apparently not. That was also when gas was like $4/gallon. I wasted about a buck. Oops.
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Did you know: A cigarette actually can’t ignite gasoline. True. The cherry of a cigarette is smoldering, so the gasoline will just put it out. In order to ignite gas, you need either a spark or a flame. But, still, it’s probably not a good idea to smoke a cigarette if you’re standing in a pool of flammable liquid, no matter how tempting it is.
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i watched this thing on 20/20 or something about static electricity at the gas station, ALWAYS roll up your sleeves when you are gassing up, b/c ur clothes could react blahblah light up a fire
conclusion, u could die
=_= i hate filling up ~~
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Omfg that’s totally scary! and funny at the same time! LOL
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That’s scary, jeeze …
wasn’t there an emergency pump-turn off around or was it kind of a hokey gas station? I’d be more scared of the static than any cigs. People gotta be stupid nowadays to smoke around a gas station.
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but must you tell it with such hilarity?
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EEK! That happened to me at a Shell in long beach. It was scary & funny at the same time. And I also had my legs and feet were stained with that gasoline smell. blech. I didn’t really panic.. i looked at it and after 2 minutes I got it to stop. haha. Some girl next to me wanted to take my nozzle and put it into her car. haha jerk — that shit was still being charged on my card! haha. But yes.. that was quite interesting. I usually go in my car and just sit & relax while the gas is pumping.. but ever since that incident. I’m outside monitoring that thing. haha
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Omg, that is scary. I’ve never heard of anything like that happening to anyone before. I cant believe the cashier thought you were lying. Yea, what you told him doesn’t typically happen, but that shouldve gave him an even bigger reason to at least see what you were talking about.
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knowing how much i hate the smell of gas, i would have started vomiting as well, so there would have been gas and vomit all over the floor. and i could have vomited on the mexican guy’s feet in revenge.
how does it work in your country, do you put cash in the machine first and then pour gas, or do you enter the shop afterwards to pay? if you left without paying, you could use the money you saved for a new pair of shoes, since the ones you were using are probably in gasoline brine…
damn, i don’t even have a driving license and i’m already scared of cars!
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what kind if irresponsible gas attendant would think you’re joking about such a thing?!?!?!?!?!? D: D: D: I hope you got an orange mocha frappe after this… or a shot of tequila… Horrible! just horrible!
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Scary shit, that is. I’m glad you’re okay! I don’t know if something could actually go wrong if someone lit a cigarette or if that’s just a movie scenario. But it’s a good thing you didn’t stick around to find out
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wow..
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