Do you hate fuelling your car?

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I'm quite surprised by the number of MNers who say they absolutely hate filling up their cars. It seems to be high on the list of most-detested tasks. Those of you who hate it - do you know why you hate it? Do you also hate washing your cars, or doing other car-care jobs?

I like filling my car up - I have no idea why I like it, though. I'm not all that wild about washing cars, but I don't hate doing it - it's one of the less awful chores, even though it's a chore.

It never struck me as something to feel about either way, it's just something you have to do. What does annoy me about my current commute is that there are no petrol stations en route so I have to make a special detour if I don't remember to fill up on a non-working day,

I don’t know, but I do know from first hand experience that rubber pump hose with the inevitable bits of grit embedded in it will scratch paint.

A curved piece of rubber can’t scratch your metal car.

Ah, yes - good point, I suppose.

We've only ever owned old cars where a new scratch would never even be noticed!

My car is painted.

So you make sure you're parked close? If I see someone waiting for the pump when "the other side" is free I genuinely think they must be significantly incompetent and wonder how they managed to get their driving licence and assume they had help tying their shoelaces. I have a big car and I've had massive ones.

I will do anything to get out of it!
I was so glad when my boys became old enough to fill the tank.
I always try to bribe them to come with me and do it for me.

I have adhd and I think it's the thought of standing still??

Well sure, if you have a big car and can’t park it you will run into many issues petrol station or otherwise.

Well I guess today is the day you learn rubber can’t scratch that either.

Unfortunately, I have already learnt that it does!

The only time I tried that it did not, in fact, stretch (I have a van) 😳

The car is being driven at speed up and down roads and motorways, bits of grit and whatnot flying everywhere and hitting that paint all the time, its a car, its meant to be able to withstand a bit of rubber now and then pulled across it, like someone walking past it, going past hedges on narrow roads.

Honestly

I love filling up. The smell of petrol is heavenly. I love having a good old whiff. Beautiful.

Hate other car related stuff, though. Washing it and cleaning it out in particular!

But anything that involves me smelling petrol I love.

I also like painting the house if it means I can get the white spirit out for a sniff!

I hate it. But that's because do about 150-200 miles a week, so it seems to need filling all the time.

Then I'll do it tomorrow, but I'm running late to pick dc up for their class, so I'll do it in the morning. Except, that adds 5 minutes on and what if I don't get time to get a cup of tea when I get to work? And I know that really I should do it at costco, but that's a bit out of my way and the queues are insane.

i do around 4/500 miles most weeks, and one of the many things I love about my EV is that I almost never (and by that I mean only a handful of times a year) need to go near a filling / charging station. The car is always ‘full’ in the morning and, in the winter, warm and defrosted. Compared to the old days with at least one petrol station visit a week, and a the odd scraping / defrosting a few weeks a month over winter I reckon I save at least 15 hours a year :)

I also hate:
Doing my teeth
Drying my hair
Putting my clothes away
Decorating prep and tidying

I like:
Putting makeup on
Doing my hair
Choosing clothes to wear
Choosing colours and doing the first coat

There's a pattern here.

Absolutely hate it and get my husband to fill up my car once a month! Used to do it myself until I had a new car and could not unscrew the petrol cap! Even the guy in the petrol station couldn't get it off so since then I've had major anxiety about it. And always think I will over fill the tank and it will spill everywhere (although I've read online that the pump will shut off when the tank is full?)
Anyway it's my husbands job now seeing as I do everything else in the house cooking/cleaning/food shopping/bill paying etc and his jobs are basically any car maintenance and emptying the bins!

This is where the gross unfairness of the patriarchy is writ large.

Your DH is fully sorted for his Christmas pressie, but what is there out there for you, eh?

I would gladly pay a direct debit for petrol, or be billed at the end of the month so I can just drive in and drive off. They could even have an attended lane!

Like ironing …. Boring task

I used to hate it. I had a car with velour seats and would constantly get static shocks from it as I got out and touched the exterior of the car. I had visions of blowing myself up on the forecourt.

New car now and it doesn’t bother me at all.

Pay on an app. Changed my life! BP has one, not sure about other brands but I bet they do.

Yes, I don't drive much so DH fills it, I mentioned I didn't like filling it up and I might get an EV, he always fills it up for me now.

I hate it. For lots of reasons. I'm always busy and it's another chore. My car is diesel and there aren't always gloves so then my had reeks of diesel all day. You usually have to queue to get into the petrol station, the queue again to pay. If it's got and M&S shop or a coop then you queue even longer while people faff about with their shopping or ordering coffees. The whole thing is just so time consuming. Pay at pump isn't as bad. It's so bloody expensive. I can um and ah over buying myself a t shirt but then simply have to pay extortionate amounts for fuel. I live rurally and the public transport is crap. I would pay more if someone else put the fuel in and I didn't have to get out the car.

Hate it too - hurts my hands to keep squeezing that dirty metal nozzle for the time it takes. Often wonder how older/less strong or injured people manage it and why it hasn't been made easier as a promotional thing.