Story time: Men at Gas Stations

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The fun thing about driving a diesel version of a usually non-diesel vehicle is occasionally having (well-meaning?) men at gas stations vault over at breakneck speeds to stop me from filling up my vehicle with the “wrong” gas. Most of the time they’re sheepish/curious once I correct them, but occasionally they actually try to argue with me and I have to show them the little sticker in the gas cap that says DIESEL FUEL ONLY to get them to back off. Sometimes the latter sort of men use words like “sweetheart” and “honey” when telling me I’m mistaken. Which makes the moment they read that sticker just a little bit sweeter.

I’ve yet to have a woman do this. I’m sitting at around a dozen male occurrences within the last 2 years. 

We recently had our work van ruined by a male associate who put unleaded in it even though it’s diesel. This is the same associate I’ve had to correct multiple times because he was avoiding listening to me, a manager, because he wanted to do what he thought was better.

I don’t know where men get off thinking they know anything about anything.