Have you ever run out of gas?

Question

For your car,that is

Answer 1

Yes. I remember asking my ex to fill up the car as i told him we were low. I had to take the car. Well guess what...along the highway I ran out. Was I mad? What do you think? I didn't even make it to the gas station to fill up.

Answer 2

Many years ago coming home at 2 a.m. south bound on a major interstate highway with just a 'few' beers under my belt and driving a VW Beetle, I decided to play 'chicken' with the gas gauge. "One more exit," said the drunk to himself. Needless to say the car 'died' between exits and I started to walk. Lucky me, within minutes two state troopers stopped to pick me up and drive me to the nearest gas station. They questioned me on the "distinct odor of alcohol from my breath," and I mumbled something about a bad cold and sucking Halls cough drops, for some reason they believed that.

After giving the gas station attendant a $10 deposit for the gas
can with one gallon of gas, I was able to hitch a ride with a young couple traveling North. Now the problem was where or where did I leave the car. Finally told the driver to just stop 'here', and crossed the dark, divided highway. Looked right, looked left, no car in sight....which way to walk....picked right, must have walked several miles before realizing "this can't be right." Turned around and walked the opposite direction. Finally after what seemed forever reached the car, gassed it, and drove off. Not a good experience, and the last time 'chicken' will ever be played with a gas gauge.

Answer 3

Yes. Once when I was coming home from college for a weekend about 100 years ago. I was stranded on a highway and we didn't have cell phones in those days. I was alone, and luckily the police came and helped me.

Another time it happened to me, when I was also young and in the country in Portugal. I was with other friends and we had to walk about a mile in the dark and wake up the gas station owner.

These days I know better, but if you have a teenage son or daughter, it's a good idea to check your guage frequently, because they can run the car dry!

Answer 4

Yes..and it was SCARY! I was on a really twisty winding road in the forest preserve at nighttime. A car pulled up behind me, and a gentleman got out. By then, I had already started walking in the direction of a gas station.
The man asked me if I needed a ride. He could have been Ted Bundy, but I said yes..hoping he was a nice guy.
Turns out I was lucky..he was. I got the gas, and he took me back to my car and I was safe and sound.
Needless to say..I will never run out of gas again. And..I will never drive down a lonely twisty curvy road in the forest preserve alone at night again!

Answer 5

It was the dead of winter.......freezing morning. I'm still not used to how much fuel the car still has after the warning light comes on. Compile me not being familiar enough with my car with the fact that I had just moved out to the suburbs and was miles away from humanity (aka: gas stations). And I crested a hill....and then it happened.........lost all power.....it stops......and my girls in the back seat were have having a coniption fit. I turned on my blinkers and just sat there thinking.........what do I do??? I'm so not a cell phone kinda gal. I really hate phones. I have a cell.....but do I bother to keep it charged? Uhm......no. The bad part was that I coasted down the hill and pulled over as far as I could........but my car's tail end was still sticking WAY out into the street. Cars were flying over the hill and slamming on their brakes to keep from hitting me. I was scared to pieces! But did anyone bother to stop? noooooooooooooo. So there I sat with my blinkers on........two little girls in the car............and we didn't dare get out of the car because of the speed with which the other cars around us were going. Where would we stand????

Then finally........a police officer drove up. I gave him my sob story. He parked his car about three lengths behind me which served to force the cars to change lanes before coming so dangerously close to hitting us. We called a station........they brought me gas. YAY!!

Happy endin? Uhm no.......

As it turns out.....I had let my car registration expire so the cop ticketed me for that. Oh well.....He was a good guy so I could forgive him. I deserved it.

And that.......is my story. *curtsies*

Answer 6

I am glad you clarified that. I haven't but my wife has. We were going to a Christmas Party on a Friday night during rush hour traffic. I had to push the car from the on- ramp to the freeway to the parking lot of a shopping center. It was pretty dicey. I always check my gas gauge and fill up when the warning light first goes on. My wife tends to forget. Now about the other kind of gas...

Answer 7

Yes, more than once. I have driven several different VW;s in the past. Now if you want to get teased unmercifully, just run out of gas in a VW. I also ran out of gas once and had to buy a fuel pump because of it...ouch, that one really hurt. Haven't done it in a while, I guess experience really is a good teacher.

Answer 8

Seven times. My first car. 1972 VW Super Beetle. Broken gas gauge.

Answer 9

Yeah-the guage said I could go another 28 miles. I ran out 1/4 mi from the gas station...not too bad.

Answer 10

No, but I once had a scary incident in the middle of Massachusetts where my friend didn't fill up and there wasn't a single open gas station anywhere we went. We finally found one when we were on fumes.