Well, since the price of gas was down and I had a half of a tank, I decided to fill up on my way to work before the prices went up for the weekend.  So, I pulled into Meijer (regional grocery chain) to fill up.

$3.77 per gallon.  Not bad.  Certainly better than $3.89 from Monday.  So, I slid my Meijer card into the pump for an additional $.05 per gallon savings.  I then pushed the “grade” button and inserted, squeezed and locked the nozzle.  And, since I had bugs on my windshield, I decided to give the windshield a good cleaning.

When the windshield was clean, I looked at the pump and noticed that it had stopped at 10 gallons.  I quickly did an MPG calculation and determined that it was right where it should be.  So, I removed the nozzle, closed the cap and headed on my way.

But, as I went on down the road, I noticed that my fuel gauge still read only a half full.  Is my gauge not working?  Is it just slow?  But, the more that I drove, the more that I noticed that the gauge was going down.  Hum.

So, I then began to wonder if I had really pumped any gas at all at Meijer.  Maybe the 10 gallons on the pump was from the last guy.

Regardless, I still needed to buy gas before the weekend jump.  So, I stopped after work in Lansing.  $3.47 per gallon.  Great!!

Now, the pumps at Meijer in Lowell quite often mis-start and fail to pump.  And since I put in 12 gallons in Lansing, that mis-start saved me $3.00.  🙂  Way to go Fred (Meijer)!!!