Filling up again!

I wait for a pump that has the nozzle on the side I need. Or if another opens I will drive around to where one is on the right side.

I prefer the "right" side Humbug. But I am a "stretcher" if there is a pump free on the wrong side and I'm feeling impatient. Sometimes I can be infuriating though. I will wave other sin front of me to get a right sided pump. Drives The Boss wild at times. LOL.

I wonder if it's the time of day that I fill up or people know when Wolfie is on the road and steer clear! But I've always gone to the pump with my tank in the right position so I don't need to stretch over, the few times that the pump was in the wrong place I have happily waited, strange thing is my friend that when I am driving I am very patient, yet in everything else like waiting for time and wanting things I am not patient. Becareful how you handle that big hose my friend ;0)

If I am filling up myself I would do the same thing as you and go to the other side and pull it over the pumps. But I don't go to self serve very often. I usually go to the full service side and then I will wait in line if I have to. I don't like the smell of gasoline and I always get it on my hands when I do it myself and then I am usually on my way somewhere that I don't want to be stinky. But if I have to do it myself I usually can get there okay. I don't see it full too often so I usually don't have a problem. Alrighty then, talk to you later my friend, Have a good mylotting day, Chris

i sit & wait for the pump i need to become available, you notice i didn't say patiently. lol

I would never try stretching the hose around the pump. I just wait and then pull in the one that gets empty. But I'm never in a line, most of the time. I usually just drive right to a pump and start pumping the gas into my car.

I always wind up waiting for a free pump that is on the correct side of my gas tank. I never even thought about just stretching the hose. Thanks for the idea.

I nearly always like to have the fill door the same side as the gas pump. One of the reasons for this is that I drive an older larger car. If I could afford to buy a new small car I would be able to stretch the hose around because it would be so easy to reach around because it would be less distance to go, especially the small hatchbacks. I used to drive a pickup and jeep so it was next to impossible to stretch the hose around these large vehicles. A couple of the older cars I used to drive had the fill hole behind the license plate in the middle of the rear of the car. I guess they stopped making them this way because if the tank was overfilled, the gas could (and did) slosh out when you accelerated. It was however more convenient to fill it in that position.

I guess I have never thought to go to the other side and reach the hose over. I will wait till there is an open spot on the side that the tank is on. I usually am not in a hurry to much for anything. I don't have much to do to be in a hurry for.

Well I am one who goes to full serve most of the time because of disabilities..but if I feel up to pumping my own, I will wait for the right side of the pump!!..It might be disasterous if I didnt!..I prefer to leave the gas station with my windshield still in tact and paint still on the the spoiler still attached! You see I happen to be shorter than some..If I was to swing that hose up and over, well it probably wouldnt make it over but probably right through the back windshield!...If it did per chance make it up, it would most likely slide back off with my spoiler attached taking a good amount of paint with it!! So no thanks, I will wait, or better still, let someone else do it!

This really depends. But, I never stretch the hose over my car. Mainly due to the chance that it might scratch the paint. But, i have backed upto a pump, so Im on the right side. But I usually just wait. I also use Full Service Gas Stations most of the time.

This may sound silly but I will wait because I don;t want to chance scratching my paint. (despite the fact that I am a college student and even though my car is fairly new it has many scratches from people opening their doors on it.)

I tried to stretch the hose a few weeks ago. I live in the U.S. They don't make them long enough. That may explain why I did not see anyone trying to stretch it. I like to go to the gas station at off times when there are fewer people to contend with. Grocery shopping is the same. Midnight is a wonderful time to buy food except for falling over the food boxes being unpacked by stock people.

i just wait untill a free pump is there.for this moment, i can do many trial things in the car,or listening to the music.

haha Humbug, I'm naughty or lazy, which ever you like, I will always wait for the pump that is near, I'd never stretch it over the car. Now my husband Would, he's not bothered "men hey! haha

I always go to a pump on the same side as my gas tank door. Most of the hoses I don't think are long enough to pull around to the opposites side and i would get extremely frustrated. But, depending on how desperate I am for a fill, if there are long lines at the pumps, I may pass a station or two to get to a place where I won't have to actually wait to pull up to a pump. If I'm riding on fumes, I'll just wait it out.