I was right - again!

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Me and my husband have a different view of when our gas tanks are empty. I don't think it's empty until a day or so after the light comes on to tell you to get gas. My husband thinks it's empty when it's got a quarter tank left in it. Last week I had to drive his truck while mine was getting some routine maintenance done. He said he had a quarter tank of gas, but I should be ok for the day - all I had to do was drive to work and back. Well, my car took longer to fix than we thought so I ended up driving his truck the next day too. Since he car pools to and from work he didn't need it so it was no big deal. On the way to work the second day, his gas light came on. I knew he'd freak out if he knew it was on. His light has only come on once and we got gas right away so I know that he's got like 5 gallons of gas left when that light comes on. He gets about 13 mgp, and it's about 17 miles from our house to my work. That means I had about 65 miles I could drive before running out of gas. I figured I wasn't going to drive more than 35 miles, so there would be 30 miles or so left on that tank of gas by the time I got home. Now, I was going to fill the tank up on my way home so my husband would not get all worried about running out of gas. He had planned on driving to work the next day, and it's about 20 miles from the house to his job. So, I knew he'd make it to work without a problem, AND one of the perks where he works is that he gets free gas. So I didn't want to pay for gas if I didn't have to, but I called him and told him that I'd fill it up just so he didn't have to worry. I assured him that if we did wait, he'd have plenty of gas to get to work and if my calculations were off, I'd drive out to him and put gas in his truck. I knew for sure he'd stop on the way in and get a couple dollars worth of gas just to be safe. Well, he didn't. He wanted to prove to me that I was wrong and there wasn't enough gas to get him to work. But sure as I'm breathing now, he got to work just fine! When I didn't hear from him I called him to see if he did stop for a couple gallons. He was so embarrassed that he didn't run out of gas! All the guys at work were laughing at him because I was right yet again! Yeah, I gloated a bit... When you tell someone something and they don't believe you but you end up being right, do you gloat about it or just let it go?