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Is it the husband's job to fill the wife's car with gas? (3 Viewers)

Same as above and above that as well.

  • Yes

    Votes: 25 14.5%

  • No

    Votes: 147 85.5%
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Sabertooth

Sabertooth

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I was just informed that a good husband would keep their wife's car filled with gas when it's cold outside. I did not sense the trap when she stated that she only had a quarter of a tank of gas and she hopes her car starts. I told her she didn't have to worry about it until its very low. Apparently this was the incorrect response in her mind. I guess I was supposed to get up from my morning coffee, drive her car to the gas station in negative 20 windchill weather, fill it and happily return :shrug: .

Do guys really do this? Why? Why not? How many and what type of dots is something like this worth? I mean, I'd happily trade the 10 minutes it would take me for a dot, but I want to know a reasonable expectation of value here.

 
My wife hasn't driven in probably 10 years, I'm the chauffeur. If she had her own car, I'd fill the tank if she asked but wouldn't be keeping track of it.

 
My wife has a somewhat reasonable excuse in that I work in a town with cheaper gas prices, but I am often filling her car up. She hasn't, and I do not think she would pull the card of filling her car up in the morning before work and bringing it back to her. She'd say, "I need to take your car today. By the way, mine needs gas."

ETA - this happens year round and isn't specifically tied to cold weather.

 
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jamny said:
My wife hasn't driven in probably 10 years, I'm the chauffeur. If she had her own car, I'd fill the tank if she asked but wouldn't be keeping track of it.
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I agree. This wasn't a request, it was a trap. If she'd asked "would you please fill my car up with gas today?" I probably would have received that a bit differently.

 
Dragons said:
My wife has a somewhat reasonable excuse in that I work in a town with cheaper gas prices, but I am often filling her car up. She hasn't, and I do not think she would pull the card of filling her car up in the morning before work and bringing it back to her. She'd say, "I need to take your car today. By the way, mine needs gas."

ETA - this happens year round and isn't specifically tied to cold weather.
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that's still kind of borderline to me. That's an expectation of compliance. Not really a request.

 
Baloney Sandwich said:
It is a nice thing to do but there shouldn't be an expectation on their end that it happens everytime.
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Kind of how I view it. I love doing nice things for my wife and kids. But that's not what this was. This was an ambush. I laughed it off and just grabbed my coffee and went in the other room when she started telling me about how a good husband would do this.

 
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Dragons said:
My wife has a somewhat reasonable excuse in that I work in a town with cheaper gas prices, but I am often filling her car up. She hasn't, and I do not think she would pull the card of filling her car up in the morning before work and bringing it back to her. She'd say, "I need to take your car today. By the way, mine needs gas."

ETA - this happens year round and isn't specifically tied to cold weather.
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that's still kind of borderline to me. That's an expectation of compliance. Not really a request.
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If gas weren't $.20-$.40/gallon cheaper by my work, I would wholeheartedly agree.

But as it is, I don't think she has an expectation that I am responsible for fill ups.

 
If my wife's Yukon needs gas, she will take my truck. She likes backing it in next to all the other trucks in her parking garage. She said the men stare at her like she's an alien.

They are really looking at her cans.

 
Dragons said:
Sabertooth said:
Dragons said:
My wife has a somewhat reasonable excuse in that I work in a town with cheaper gas prices, but I am often filling her car up. She hasn't, and I do not think she would pull the card of filling her car up in the morning before work and bringing it back to her. She'd say, "I need to take your car today. By the way, mine needs gas."

ETA - this happens year round and isn't specifically tied to cold weather.
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that's still kind of borderline to me. That's an expectation of compliance. Not really a request.
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If gas weren't $.20-$.40/gallon cheaper by my work, I would wholeheartedly agree.

But as it is, I don't think she has an expectation that I am responsible for fill ups.
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Wow. Ok that's just smart shopping then.

 
Married 5 years and never once filled up her car. Granted, we don't swap cars. She's never driven mine, and the only time I drive hers is if she, our daughter and I are all going somewhere as it's a pain to move the carseat. Of course my wife Only drives like 10 miles a week as it is, so it's not like she's burning through gas (2000 Civic)

 
It's no more "your job" than it is "her job" to make you sandwiches and give you BJ's on command.

Nice thing to do? Absolutely.

 
We don't live in cold weather so that freezing issue isn't a concern but to answer your question of course not. I don't think either of us have even thought about it.

 
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Papa Georgio said:
Apparently in my house it is since every time I take her car it's on empty.
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Well, yeah I agree with that. But honestly do you go and look each night like a good pet?
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No, never and I ##### that she can't ever seem to fill it up on her own, however my guess is that I put gas in for her about 50% of the time.

In her defense we take her car for all family outings and we are usually traveling a fair distance when that happens so the situation itself lends to me getting stuck with filling it up. I swear she goes around like a teenager putting $5 in at a time. I don't see how it can always be low on gas.

 
No flipping way. I will fill up the wife's car if I take it for some reason, oil change, car wash, etc., but she puts a lot of miles on the car and there's no way I'm filling it up everytime its empty.

My wife is always happy when she sees I filled it up, but I never make a special trip just to top off her tank.

 
My wife does not expect me to put gas in her car. She does it. It is her car. This is 2015.

If we switch vehicles, I normally fill up her tank as a nice gesture.

 
If I see the forecast is calling for cold weather I'll tell her to fill up, or if we are going somewhere in her car (I always get stuck driving...) I'll fill it up if it's down to a quarter or less. Otherwise she's on her own...

 
Only have 1 car that we share. Whoever is driving it when the low fuel light comes on fills it up, regardless of weather.

 
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