The fact that someone that stupid is allowed to drive.
And too stupid to realise the hoses are designed to reach the other side of the car here too.
I don’t know about where you live, but very few stations where I am have hoses long enough to do this. I think costco pumps are the only ones I’ve seen that are long enough.
Here in the midlands they’re mounted up high and have decent reach. The Shell ones pull out and retract too.
Fancy! I still don’t know why every pump doesn’t do it, it would make too much sense.
She’s just going to drive away with it anyway.
This person should not be allowed to operate a vehicle ever
I’ve been practicing driving with a person who shouldn’t drive. She has no feeling for the car, i. e. doesn’t understand how you would correct your position, drive in reverse etc., and it feels like she’s asleep with her eyes open. Imo driving is a constant stream of decisions and she just doesn’t make any. “Why are we driving here?” - “I’ve been looking for somewhere to turn around.” - “We’re passing suitable locations every 3 seconds and you’re going 50.” - “I can’t decide in time which to use.”
She’s afraid to go the speed limit, highways are off limits. The other day she just straight up drove out into an intersection from a yield side without breaking and stopped in the middle. I warned her it was coming, there were signs and everything. She doesn’t know the speed limit when it’s always very clearly signed. She doesn’t read directions and can’t navigate by herself; “if I say nothing, go straight, or right if straight is not an option” is forgotten after 5 minutes. She’s been driving with an instructor (which I am not) for 20 lessons and we’ve gone at least ten times, too.
Having a society that’s designed so everyone has to drive is absurd.
I mean sometimes you just have to admit someone is dumb or has a specific deficiency and move on.
I’m pretty sure I have some deficiencies, but I’m lucky I got to learn pretty young on a farm. I’m torn between wanting to advocate kids have access to like go kart tracks at school vs funding more public transit and walkable communities, as someone else said. Both would be dope tho
I feel bad for her - because that’s got to be dementia or something - but she shouldn’t be driving.
probably just booze and pills
People like this are why I support walkable communities and convenient, free mass transit.
We should strive for the least common denominator :-/
When it comes to accessibility, yes
Sorry I also don’t want to interact with this person on foot, or in a store, or be behind her at self checkout, or watch her use a tablet to order food. I would prefer to never have to think about someone with this level of brain activity. I also don’t want them to vote.
Fun fact, just hitting the down arrow without a response just puts you in silent solidarity with someone who is so stupid they can’t figure out how to
pump gasalign two objects within 8 ft of each other :)Welcome to life, where occasionally you deal with things you don’t want to. I do hope you never experience a similar situation, but if you do, I hope it is handled with compassion.
Oh hey a response. I don’t really get what your response has to do with anything, but you used words so good for you!
Your entire point, in the context of my message, is “sometimes life isn’t perfect”?
For my part, I sincerely hope you never reach the mental state where you think you can drive a car but in fact can’t align two objects within 8 feet of each other. Because that’s sad, and deserving of compassion from people who care about you.
I will have open solidarity with that person, thank you very much. Society should accommodate everyone. If it can’t, it’s a bad society.
And if you can’t tolerate people like this existing, you’re a bad person, and I don’t want anything to do with you.
Protip look at fuel gage you’ll see a symbol telling you which side ◀️⛽ Sadly modern technology can only take us so far
My wife’s hyundai has two and each has an arrow going a different direction. Gets me every time because my car has the fill hole on the passenger side and hers is on driver side so I always look down at the arrow.
One I guess has the arrow to the right to signify how much gas is left and the other has an arrow to the left to say what side the pump is on but they are both the same icon
FILL HOLE
Some people were never meant to operate machinery of any kind, much less machines physically larger than they are.
Like, don’t even let this person touch a lawnmower.
No spatial awareness. Absolutely none.
I was doing Y2K updates for Quik Trip and these clerks had me crying over a story about a drunk guy doing this. The shit convenience store clerks see, Jesus those guys were funny.
There’s no sound but all I can hear is Yakety Sax
Benny Hill screaming loudly in my head
LOL I was ready to defend the driver, having pulled in on the wrong side of the pump once or twice. I drive different cars, and while most have it on the driver’s side, one vehicle I drive regularly has it on the opposite side, so I have occasionally made the mistake.
But then I corrected it by turning the car around and pulling into the pump on the correct side…
on the dashboard, there is an arrow next to the fuel icon. It shows which side to fill.
But every time I pull around to the other side, the arrow keeps pointing away from the pumps!
On some models yeah. I’ve had cars that didn’t
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Usually the fuel cap is on the passenger side according to the country of origin, so for example European = right side, Japanese = left side. It’s not 100% bullet proof but it can eliminate a bit of the guess work if the car doesn’t have an arrow to indicate such side the cap is on.
In this thread, user who has never driven an American car but thinks they know things
There are cars that don’t have arrows to indicate the side of the fuel cap on the fuel meter? Well, if they exist, I have definitely never seen one.
But these are just two different standards. What if your car isn’t European or Japanese?
This is such baseless bullshit
If it doesn’t have an arrow then the correct side is denoted by whether the fuel icon itself has the hose on the left or right.
More importantly, unless you drive something the size of a bus, it doesn’t matter which side you park, it’ll still reach fine.
At Costco and other high volume stores yes because they’re designed that way. Normal gas stations not so.
Is this an American thing? They’re long enough where I am.
The legends say she is still circling the pump to this day.
Do you know what the definition of insanity is?
Like a slapstick comedy 😂
I have met people who have zero ability for 3D visualisation. I’m thinking this is one of those cases, plus a small panic after the second try.
