to call dh a panic buyer?

[Knitwit101]

We have a small electric car we use every day. We have a massive diesel car we use for long journeys with all 5 of us plus dog, and towing the caravan.

We are taking the caravan away on 16th October. Nearly 3 weeks away Large car has half a tank in it, we've no plans to use it, might take it on a 20 mile round trip next weekend if we all go out for the day, probably will just take the small one because its rare for all the kids to want to come out with us now.

Dh went out last night and filled up the tank so we have a full tank for going away in nearly 3 weeks time. Then was lecturing the kids this morning on the stupidity of panic buying when we were listening to the radio.

I said he was a panic buyer, he got quite offended and said he was just being sensible and planning ahead. But we didn't need that extra fuel, we're not going to need it till maybe 15th October when we get organised for going away the next day.

He's a panic buyer, right? He's contributing unnecessarily to this nonsense at the petrol stations then ranting on about the idiots who cause fuel shortages.

If he would normally have filled up this early then he’s not a panic buyer. If he filled up because he’s worried there won’t be fuel available in a few weeks time, he’s a panic buyer. If everyone just stuck to their usual filling routine, none of this chaos would be happening.

If he thinks other people are panic-buyers and he isn't, what's his definition? Someone who buys fuel more than a month in advance of a long trip? What's the cut-off?

If everyone just stuck to their usual filling routine, none of this chaos would be happening

Well of course, but the fact is that they aren’t. So it’s all very well sitting back and being all righteous about it but if you had to miss a weekend away or not be able to get to work because you weren’t able to get fuel then 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's the very definition of panic buying. Who would normally fill a car up 3 weeks before needing it? Answer: nobody.

Yeah it's still "panic buying" even if he did it calmly

I think we would all do better to just acknowledge that "panic buying" is just fundamental human nature and act accordingly.
If someone said there's a bread shortage and posted some pic of empty shelves on line, the shops would be empty of it by the evening and yeast would be going for silly money on Amazon.

If there are still fuel shortages in 3 weeks time, then it’s planning ahead, else it’s panic buying.

I was out on my motorcycle last weekend, and was down to 20 miles of range with a 50 + mile ride home, I was certainly in a panic to buy, but not sure I was panic buying 🤷🏼‍♂️

I was talking to my friend at the weekend who explained how as soon is it came on the news he filled his van up, then went home to get his car and fill it phoned his wife if fill her car and finnished off saying he had to "because of all the bloody panic buyers"

Everyone thinks everyone else is a panic buying idiot and they're just being sensible and prepared amidst the panic!

True but I also think there is a difference between “shit I better fill up” and filling up six jerry cans to keep in your garage b

Yeah, incredibly selfish of your DH. Considering you have an electric car to get you from A to B and had fuel already in the other car, it's the very definition of selfish. Meanwhile, I'm running on fumes in my little 1.2 petrol car, wondering how the hell I'm going to be getting to work because of people like your 'D'H

So it's only panic buying if it's in cans?

If he can honestly say he ALWAYS tops up the tank 3 weeks before going away then no he isnt a PB.

If he is only doing this because he is worried about petrol shortage, then he has to admit he is!

Yep, panic buyer.
I wouldn’t judge him for that - I’d only judge him for not acknowledging.

I think the phrase doesn’t help, “panic” buyer. No-one is going to admit to a label that makes them sound like a dick, and that they had a stressful reaction rather than what they will have felt was a calm, forward planning one.

I bet if we said the problem was caused by “contingency buyers” a few more people would own to the label and acknowledge that they added to the problem - though still doing it!

yeah i would say he is a panic buyer.

I have the same conversation with my grandparents. both moaning about these selfish panic buyers. it later transpired that despite neither of them driving more that a few miles a week, they both went out and filled their tanks (both were already over half full).

I'm also sure the have only just got through the loo roll they stocked up on last year.

YANBU, not only is he a panic buyer, he’s a hypocrite. But there are people who are ‘do as I say not as I do’ and many of them are on MN.

All the panic buyers defending their decision to panic buy, there is no defence, you and thousands of other people have all thought the same and caused this! Oh I had to queue up as we were going on holiday I was worried, I couldn’t miss this certain thing, I couldn’t risk missing work so needed to fill up blah blah, you guys have caused this!!!! Panic buying means buying it because your worried you won’t get it when you need it. Insane how many people are hating the situation, but have been a part of the cause.

Wow, he IS the problem. What a selfish twit.

To me panic buying would be filling up gas cans on top of filling up your car. Like in America when they had the issue with the fuel supply chain, people were filling up black plastic bags, plastic storage containers, there's even a video of a woman filling up a plastic grocery bag with petrol. People were buying fuel tanks just to panic buy and stock up.

So no I don't think anyone filling their car tank is panic buying.

99% of 'panic buyers' during this and the 'great loo roll crisis' were just ordinary people behaving rationally and 'being prepared'.

@lottiegarbanzo

Wow, he IS the problem. What a selfish twit.

He's not really the whole problem if he's bought one half tank of diesel, is he?

@NekoShiro

To me panic buying would be filling up gas cans on top of filling up your car. Like in America when they had the issue with the fuel supply chain, people were filling up black plastic bags, plastic storage containers, there's even a video of a woman filling up a plastic grocery bag with petrol. People were buying fuel tanks just to panic buy and stock up.

So no I don't think anyone filling their car tank is panic buying.

Of course they are! That’s why we are in this situation, everyone wanting to fill their tanks up! A few complete twats filling up plastic bags with fuel hasn’t caused this.

@NekoShiro

To me panic buying would be filling up gas cans on top of filling up your car. Like in America when they had the issue with the fuel supply chain, people were filling up black plastic bags, plastic storage containers, there's even a video of a woman filling up a plastic grocery bag with petrol. People were buying fuel tanks just to panic buy and stock up.

So no I don't think anyone filling their car tank is panic buying.

If someone is making a dedicated trip to the petrol station, knowing they don't need that fuel for 3 weeks of course they are panic buying. That fuel is just sitting there for no reason when others who actually need it might be struggling.

You are panic buying.
I am making a sensible decision to be prepared for all possible eventualities.

Really? We need a discussion on the nature of collective vs individual responsibility do we?

He and everyone else who has done the same thing IS the problem. Every single selfish, twitty one of them.

If someone is making a dedicated trip to the petrol station, knowing they don't need that fuel for 3 weeks of course they are panic buying. That fuel is just sitting there for no reason when others who actually need it might be struggling.

Does that apply in normal times as well? I filled up before we went away a couple of weeks ago even though I knew I wouldn’t need the car for over a week. I did it so I wouldn’t have to bother when I got home. It was obviously before all this happened but I’m now wondering if people judge others for how much petrol they have normally!