To have run the petrol down to 40 miles left

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Baby3or · 21/10/2024 19:29

I recently drove 115 miles on a motorway back to London suburbs. I was watching the petrol number the whole way (it gives it in miles left to go before it’s empty) and at 70 I was considering stopping for petrol (lots of places on the motorway and then lots of places in city suburbs on the way to our house). I decided not to stop as baby was asleep and also our older child was keen to get home after a long journey.

we live less than a mile from a big supermarket with a petrol station and also plenty of other places to fill up.

husband had a go at me saying ‘what would I have done if we had run out of petrol / how had I let myself get in that situation’ I said I was fully aware how much was left and I made a decision not to refuel as on balance it was low but not empty.

AIBU??

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DearDenimEagle · 27/10/2024 21:34

Oh yeah..I basically married my mother. It was she who trained me to accept a level of abuse was normal. Practically groomed me for my OHs . There’s a reason my brother left home and moved abroad aged 18, and I left home and moved 300 miles away, when she pushed me too far, as soon as I was out of school at 18

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Baby3or · 28/10/2024 06:07

DearDenimEagle · 27/10/2024 21:15

Pity. I didn’t either or I’d have left when the eldest was 6 months old, when the day came I Knew without a shadow of doubt, I’d made a mistake.
I left with a 14 yr old and a 4yr old. The eldest had gone to sea by then. He’d almost come to blows with his Dad and was only stopped by his grandfather. His Dad had threatened him first but the boy was bigger and stronger by then so wasn’t backing down. The boys were ok till they hit puberty, then it was the old bull trying to stay on top of the young ones. They saw the way he treated me, the way he talked to me, bossed me about, ordered me around made me work all the time he was working then do the housework etc on my own while he had his feet up .they even started calling me ‘Woman’ instead of Mum lol. But he had also begun to turn on them, calling them useless, unemployable by anyone else, so they had to work at what he wanted them to. He just had to be superior. Even though he wasn’t.

The youngest aged 3 at the time, saw him drag me by the hair. Or push me against a wall with his hand round my throat. He wasn’t always that bad. It was purely verbal for years, then escalated. He just hated anything he thought was disrespectful and I was only allowed to say ‘yes, dear’ in company. Ie speak when spoken to. Anything else was disrespecting him. I could not do right for doing wrong.

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Thank you so much for sharing. Definitely a lesson for me.

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asdfgasdfg · 07/11/2024 22:51

They do really cheap petro at Costo, often 8p a litre cheaper than my cheapest local. It's quite a trek so any time we are in the area we fill up even if only a quarter tank

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