It's one of those things that it's easy to blame others.
I drove past the massive queue at Sainsbury's on Friday feeling smug that I had an almost full tank. Normally I'd have filled it up when I was doing the shopping, however dh did a very long journey earlier in the week and ran it almost out, so I had to fill it up before the situation hit.
However if it had hit two days sooner, yes I would have been in that queue with the situation that if they ran out of fuel I'd have been walking home as there wasn't enough in the tank to get me home.
So now I have enough in the tank to see us through 10 days of normal driving, and I'll be surprised if the situation hasn't changed by then.
BUT I'll be making sure we're not doing any extra journeys, I've told the dc that they need to be prepared to walk to school (roughly an hour walk) and home again unless we're going directly somewhere else (like dd's music lesson), and I'll be walking to work (again about an hour).
To me that's being cautious, but I'm fairly comfortable that we won't run out of petrol.
However, my oldest is at university 5 hours away. She has raging toothache, dental phobia to a massive extreme, and can't find anywhere that's prepared to even see her locally-111 says phone the dentists, the dentists won't see her except one which offered an emergency appointment in November.
It is at the back of my mind that I can't go and pick her up and bring her back to see her normal dentist who is brilliant with her and if I could get her here would definitely see her even if he was fully booked (yes, he's a gem).
Is that an unnecessary journey? Possibly. Would I do it? Yes, I would.