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.\u00a0 So, I pulled into Meijer (regional grocery chain) to fill up.<\/p>\n
$3.77 per gallon.\u00a0 Not bad.\u00a0 Certainly better than $3.89 from Monday.\u00a0 So, I slid my Meijer card into the pump for an additional $.05 per gallon savings.\u00a0 I then pushed the “grade” button and inserted, squeezed and locked the nozzle.\u00a0 And, since I had bugs on my windshield, I decided to give the windshield a good cleaning.<\/p>\n
When the windshield was clean, I looked at the pump and noticed that it had stopped at 10 gallons.\u00a0 I quickly did an MPG calculation and determined that it was right where it should be.\u00a0 So, I removed the nozzle, closed the cap and headed on my way.<\/p>\n
But, as I went on down the road, I noticed that my fuel gauge still read only a half full.\u00a0 Is my gauge not working?\u00a0 Is it just slow?\u00a0 But, the more that I drove, the more that I noticed that the gauge was going down.\u00a0 Hum.<\/p>\n
So, I then began to wonder if I had really pumped any gas at all at Meijer.\u00a0 Maybe the 10 gallons on the pump was from the last guy.<\/p>\n
Regardless, I still needed to buy gas before the weekend jump.\u00a0 So, I stopped after work in Lansing.\u00a0 $3.47 per gallon.\u00a0 Great!!<\/p>\n
Now, the pumps at Meijer in Lowell quite often mis-start and fail to pump.\u00a0 And since I put in 12 gallons in Lansing, that mis-start saved me $3.00.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Way to go Fred (Meijer)!!!<\/p>\n
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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.\u00a0 So, I pulled into Meijer (regional … Continue reading