use the restroom? My childhood up to about 10 yrs ago I had reacuurent bladder infections. I finally read a pamplet fron the doctors office that said there was a high incidence of chronic bladder infections in runway models and truck drivers. I was driving a truck, (wish I could say modeling...just kidding) anyway its because they dont go when they need to. When I was a child I got in trouble all the time for not going o the bathroom. My mother would see me doing the gotta pee dance and make me come inside and go. I didnt want to take the time and do it and I also would not completely empty my bladder so I could hurry up. Once I reliazed I did this and now don't, no more infections! Also there was a Sienfield episode about seeing how long you could go w/o getting gas. It reminded me of me. I still do this and my truck is diesal so I'm really scre*&ed if I run out in it, has to be primed. My car is new (for me) and was bought w/ inheritance money otherwise I would have never been able to get this, so it means a lot. I know that it is bad to run the tank low and will still do it everytime. It makes me so mad at myself because I wanted to take the best care of this car. I get griped at everytime my boyfriend rides w/ me and sees that I have done this again. What goes through my mind is, Oh I need fuel, well lets see I can drive another 20 miles and in that distance there will be another gas station?????? Than if its out of fuel or I miss it I'm in a panic. I really hate feeling that way, its not the same "high" as a adreniline rush brought on by something exciting. Anyone else?

Yeah actually... unless I'm unoccupied (and by that I mean the house or wherever I'm at is completely dark and my eyes are closed) I don't go pee until the dance starts or I get annoyed. I don't do that with gas because I live where it's cold out and have had my car not start because the gas line froze due to lack of gas more then once.

My husband is convinced I time my gas consumption so he'll be stuck filling it with "his" money. No, I just don't want to do it until I absolutely have to. The fact that the cost isn't coming out of my actual pocket is just a perk!

I just filled my car the other day, for the first time in probably 2 months. And only because the little light came on when I was 40 miles from home. I may have tried to make it if I didn't have the kids in the car. :-)

I also won't fill it if I'm at a gas station that has taken their little pins out of the pump to hold it in the 'on' position. It's too boring to stand there, holding it. That *could have something to do with the fact that I'm from NJ, where it's illegal to pump your own gas, anyway!

Okay this is really bad.... but a couple years ago I was driving back to school(Georgia Southern at the time lol) from atlanta, the interstate that you have to take has really long gaps of absolutely no civilization, so you just learn to stop and get gas, potty, eat... whatever in certain towns, knowing you wont be able to for like 2 hours. I ignored this one day, trying to make it back as fast as i could. I found myself in the middle of NO WHERE and was really on the brink of peeing my pants.... to the point to where if I stood up, I would have! I had this huge 72 oz. mug (college partying lol) in my car and I was so desperate that I hit cruise control and peed in the mug! Eww (i know!). No one was on the road and I did it while I was driving... you would think to at leeeeast pull over?! I flung it out the window going 85 mph... ooops! :nono:

Thank god my car digitally tells you how many miles you have left until you run out of gas. Its pretty bad that its read 0 miles more than once, knock on wood- i've never run out! My parents are like "what the heck is your problem? how hard is it to get gas!?".

Yes, I've run out of gas so many time when I drove stupid horseless carriages... glad I don't have anything to do with those pieces o' **** anymore!

And the pee thing, classic ADHD. When I was in kindergarden and Grade 1 I would just **** my pants and the teachers would send me home... and I wet the bed until I was 16. Trouble controlling bodily functions... as I say, classic ADHD... classic!

I ran out of gas once because I kept waiting "one more exit" to get off the freeway. Finally realized I couldn't push it anymore and ended up running out while stopped at the light right across the street from the stupid gas station. :D

Edit: I just read Mincan's post and remembered that I did pee myself once in class in first or second grade. I wonder if it was because I just didn't want to stop what I was doing at the time.

Oh yeah, I can totally relate. I don't eat either. I get too annoyed that I have to stop what I'm doing to eat.

Okay this is really bad.... but a couple years ago I was driving back to school(Georgia Southern at the time lol) from atlanta, the interstate that you have to take has really long gaps of absolutely no civilization, so you just learn to stop and get gas, potty, eat... whatever in certain towns, knowing you wont be able to for like 2 hours. I ignored this one day, trying to make it back as fast as i could. I found myself in the middle of NO WHERE and was really on the brink of peeing my pants.... to the point to where if I stood up, I would have! I had this huge 72 oz. mug (college partying lol) in my car and I was so desperate that I hit cruise control and peed in the mug! Eww (i know!). No one was on the road and I did it while I was driving... you would think to at leeeeast pull over?! I flung it out the window going 85 mph... ooops! :nono:

Thank god my car digitally tells you how many miles you have left until you run out of gas. Its pretty bad that its read 0 miles more than once, knock on wood- i've never run out! My parents are like "what the heck is your problem? how hard is it to get gas!?".

I went to the beach and was coming back and got stuck on the freeway. I of course had not used the bathroom before leaving. I had on a bikini and a shirt (I was skinny then) and I took the bottoms off and peed on my beach towel which I had wadded up under me. I then threw it in the back of the truck! I also have the miles left to run out of gas, I have zeroed it twice and only have had my car since Oct 07.
You cracked me up when I got a visual of you pouring it out the window :D

Oh yeah, I can totally relate. I don't eat either. I get too annoyed that I have to stop what I'm doing to eat.

I forgot about the eating thing......me too. I wait until I'm starving, shakey, and irriatable than pig out.

Exactly! I'll wait until I feel miserable, irritable and super sick to my stomach before eating.

sounds like 2 problems that can solve each other, with the right engine adaptations...

okay i'm sorry... that was really bad.

seriously though. I'm running pretty low on gas myself. i think that I partly procrastinate due to the fact that I tend to forget, like, where the gas side of my car is, to put the cap back on, to pay, etc. (well I haven't forgotten to pay yet, but I' know it's coming....probably when there's a police car filling up as well....)

ROTFL!!

When I was a teen, I ran out of gas ALL the time. Too lazy to stop and fill it up!! I have also coasted into gas stations many times. Turning a truck without power steering is fun.

My famous Gas Story was the last time I ran out of gas, as an adult, about 6 years ago. Although, it is not fully my fault. ;)

I was coming back from storm chasing all day and finally decided to call it quits and head back home, i was 5+ hours from home. My wife is in the car with me and we are driving back in the middle of Kansas and we go through a small town and I look at the gas guage... "1/4 left". Ah, I will go the next town. So, I drove on.... arrived at next town... looked down, "1/4 left". Ah, this is awesome... I'll keep going.... next town, "1/4 left".... fantastic.... and as I get out of town it hits me, "WTF? 1/4 tank for HOW LONG?" So, I told my wife... next gas station, if you see it let me know... cause we are getting gas no matter what.

1st Gas Station - Closed (and for a long time)
2nd Gas Station - Closed (not as long)

Putter-Pop-OH NO... No more gas... and still 1/4 tank! I knew something was up... well, I kept the truck going as much as I could, sometime driving on the shoulder and hoping for hills. I had no idea where I was but I finally hit a winding down hill... and I coasted for what seemed to be several miles, sometimes... until finally... another round of storms comes flying through and the winds start blowing like crazy and we are in a severe thunderstorm, it's dark... and I come to the bottom of the hill and stopped it under a bridge... that just happen to be I-70. A block away... a CLOSED gas station. My cell signal... ZERO.

Thankfully, someone stopped and helped us out... that's another story for another day... but how funny that others have gas issues too.