TheIronSheik
SUPER ELITE UPPER TIER
I stop to get gas this morning, because my light always comes on on the coldest day of the year, and as I'm pumping gas a lady pulls up on the other side of the pump. She stops her SUV and exits her vehicle. Because of where we both are, I can only see her as she steps out of the car, but I see her look to the back of her car, stop, half heartedly throw her hands up slightly and get back in the car. Even without seeing the rest of her car, I can tell that her gas tank is on the other side of her car. We've all done it at some point. Maybe in a rental car or borrowing a friend's car. And forgetting that you're not in the friendly confines of your own vehicle. So no judgement here. Yet. (Crazy obvious foreshadowing)
She then gets back in her car and starts it. The SUV lurches forward quickly as the car's movements give away the driver's panic and frustration. She quickly does a small, loop around the parking lot as if she had the steering wheel pegged as far to the right as it could go her entire short trip, only to end up in the exact same position she was 5 seconds ago. The SUV engine shuts off again and she exits her car, only to look back and see the exact same vision she just saw no more than a minute ago.
This time she throws her hands up wholeheartedly and lets out a groan of frustration as she leans her head back to look skyward. She hops back in her car and slams the door, firing the engine back up to a scary rev. By now, I'm finishing up filling my tank. As I begin the process of replacing the nozzle and completing my transaction, she quickly speeds to another fuel pump island leaving the obviously defective one behind. As I get in my car, I can see her exit her vehicle only to realize that pump also doesn't line up with her gas tank on the passenger side.
Sometimes I wonder how, we as a species, can have both the most information readily available to us than ever before in the history of mankind, and also be the dumbest we've ever been as a whole.
She then gets back in her car and starts it. The SUV lurches forward quickly as the car's movements give away the driver's panic and frustration. She quickly does a small, loop around the parking lot as if she had the steering wheel pegged as far to the right as it could go her entire short trip, only to end up in the exact same position she was 5 seconds ago. The SUV engine shuts off again and she exits her car, only to look back and see the exact same vision she just saw no more than a minute ago.
This time she throws her hands up wholeheartedly and lets out a groan of frustration as she leans her head back to look skyward. She hops back in her car and slams the door, firing the engine back up to a scary rev. By now, I'm finishing up filling my tank. As I begin the process of replacing the nozzle and completing my transaction, she quickly speeds to another fuel pump island leaving the obviously defective one behind. As I get in my car, I can see her exit her vehicle only to realize that pump also doesn't line up with her gas tank on the passenger side.
Sometimes I wonder how, we as a species, can have both the most information readily available to us than ever before in the history of mankind, and also be the dumbest we've ever been as a whole.