What's Normal? - When filling up with gas, do you try to round to the nearest dollar? (1 Viewer)

[Pip's Invitation]

No, but I live in NJ where we live like kings and have other people pump our gas for us.

WE ARE NOW FREE TO PUMP OUR OWN GAS IN OREGON IN MOST PLACES!

Looks like you guys are last on the list.

Unions are strong in NJ.

I don’t think the gas station attendants are unionized. The law is there as a job creation measure, though.

 

[Osaurus]

Rounded up this morning in honor of this thread

 

[belljr]

Rounded up this morning in honor of this thread

I rounded down .....

 

[Nugget]

I don't round, nor do I know how much gas costs per gallon/to fill my tank.

My routine involves shoving the gas tank cap into the pump handle, to maximize the filling rate, while preventing it from stopping prematurely. While refueling, I clean my windows and side mirrors.

When the pump clicks, I finish cleaning the glass surfaces, return the pump, and decline my receipt.

I also habitually reset the trip odometer, and always try to drive until the empty light comes on, and then a little more.

I haven’t had a vehicle with a gas cap for at least 10 years - do you have any concern with an overflow or spillage situation?

Interesting - in Georgia you have to have a functioning gas cap to get your emissions done. I guess you could get one and then not use it or discard it but I’ve never heard of somebody not using gas caps.

I think 2008/2009 was the last year Ford used a gas cap. I assumed all the other manufacturers also got rid of them.

 

[Terminalxylem]

I don't round, nor do I know how much gas costs per gallon/to fill my tank.

My routine involves shoving the gas tank cap into the pump handle, to maximize the filling rate, while preventing it from stopping prematurely. While refueling, I clean my windows and side mirrors.

When the pump clicks, I finish cleaning the glass surfaces, return the pump, and decline my receipt.

I also habitually reset the trip odometer, and always try to drive until the empty light comes on, and then a little more.

I haven’t had a vehicle with a gas cap for at least 10 years - do you have any concern with an overflow or spillage situation?

Interesting - in Georgia you have to have a functioning gas cap to get your emissions done. I guess you could get one and then not use it or discard it but I’ve never heard of somebody not using gas caps.

I think 2008/2009 was the last year Ford used a gas cap. I assumed all the other manufacturers also got rid of them.

Not sure, as my car is a 2006…scratch that, my wife’s 2013 Toyota has one.

 

[shuke]

I don't think I've paid cash for gas since 1990.

 

[Keerock]

Definite yes for me. I only pay for gas with cash as gas station credit card readers are commonly tampered with and compromised, and many gas stations do offer a lower price per gallon on cash transactions. Because of that- I either want to use my entire prepaid amount, or try to get as close to catching the nearest whole dollar amount so thatI dont have to deal with a bunch of loose change.

Apple Pay/Gas station app down? I rarely use CCs at the pump.

Another interesting What’s Normal: How many apps do you have on your phone?

Personally, can stand extra screens of junk I barely use. I limit my apps to one screen, plus one, so the second screen has unobstructed wallpaper of my last cat.

Currently, that’s 13, which is my maximum, unless I want to shrink some widgets.

I have 11... SCREENS. 9 of which I use at least one app on every day.

 

[Phil Elliott]

Geeze people... OCD down?

Reminds of when I bought a car from my step-father about 20 years ago. He'd owned the car about 10 years. I found a notebook in the glovebox where he'd entered the mileage, volume and cost of gas for every single fill since he bought the car. I thought about keeping it going but decided to ditch it the first time I put gas in that car.

We use to do this in a Hornet Sportabout our family owned. Gas gauge never worked (fixed once but only lasted a few weeks). Never ran out of gas.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Definite yes for me. I only pay for gas with cash as gas station credit card readers are commonly tampered with and compromised, and many gas stations do offer a lower price per gallon on cash transactions. Because of that- I either want to use my entire prepaid amount, or try to get as close to catching the nearest whole dollar amount so thatI dont have to deal with a bunch of loose change.

Apple Pay/Gas station app down? I rarely use CCs at the pump.

Another interesting What’s Normal: How many apps do you have on your phone?

Personally, can stand extra screens of junk I barely use. I limit my apps to one screen, plus one, so the second screen has unobstructed wallpaper of my last cat.

Currently, that’s 13, which is my maximum, unless I want to shrink some widgets.

I have 11... SCREENS. 9 of which I use at least one app on every day.

That’s disturbing. My wife has four or five, and the clutter on her phone irritates me. She also leaves like a thousand windows open on her device browsers, which is more e-clutter I can’t handle.

At least those apps should facilitate carrying a small wallet…how big is yours? I don’t have one, and just carry my license and one cc.

Which apps do you use daily? So many potential What‘s Normal? topics.

 

[jhib]

Where do you live that you don't have this?

As an aside, many places don’t have trigger locks, and HI is one of them. I believe they are illegal in NY and Australia.

We have them again in NY state. You'll still run into places that don't since they weren't allowed for years, but most do now (at least that's been my experience).