Husband ran out of gas tonight on the way home from work...

I can't believe the gas station wouldn't allow him to fill up his gas container. I believe this will teach him not to wait till he is on the "E" to get gas. All vehiches have an emergency supply but it can only take you so far. When our tank reaches 1/4 of gas left he is looking for a gas station. He says when you let it go to the bottom it picks up all that junk from the bottom which is not good for the car.

Ohhhhhh, I did that once! Luckily the car stopped right in front of a gas station! The problem was little ol' me couldn't get the car up the driveway into the station - so some nice guys stopped and just pushed it for me (boy, they made it seem so effortless!). I did have AAA just in case, but I didn't need to call them for that particular situation (but thank goodness for AAA when we DO need them). I know I was a culprit of letting it go beyond empty on the meter . . . eek. But these days since I have kids in the car - I am a whole lot more careful about not letting it go so empty. Glad your hubby will be coming home soon and safely!

Oh wow. I hope he learned his lesson too. I have to admit I am really bad about doing the same thing. My car however lets you know when you get down to being able to drive 30 more miles on whatever gas is in the tank (which is about a gallon) and its so annoying that you really don't want to let it get down that low lol The bad thing is that my gas light comes on when I have ~70 miles to drive. Since I might drive that in a week I will delay filling up. We have the coverage through Subaru, they offer the same thing AAA does.

You might want to remind him that it's not good to let the gas tank run down too much as all the crap on the bottom of the tank can clog up your engine! LOL....you would think he would keep on top of it. My brother is a super intelligent man..designed part of the space shuttle....he does this all the time as he gets sidetracked too easily by other things!

I guess he doesn't know that letting your tank get below 1/4 can damage the engine. If he is doing that for economy's sake he's certainly not saving anything but is in for a rude surprise and a lot of expense in the future. He should always stay topped up, if only not to be surprised by $5 a gallon gas. What if there was no gas? Would he rather have more than half a tank to get wherever you guys go in an emergency or would he rather have an empty tank and no choices? I do not understand people who voluntarily allow their resources to dry up.

Oh my, that's the scariest thing that I don't want to encounter. I have experienced tire blasts, but never run out of gas. It will cause damaged to car engine if happen constantly (and I don't want it to happen- too much hassle and cost) Hope your husband will learn his lesson this time.

I hope your husband will be much more careful next time because it is a nightmare to drive and find that there is no gas at all. I wonder is it possible for him to borrow some gas on the way? My colleague told me a story about her sister. At that time she drove a motorcycle but there was not gas. Then she even borrowed the gas from the traffic policeman I can only say that she is brave

Looks like I may be the first man to respond to this discussion. I'm not sure about your husband, ma'm, but speaking for the male species in general, not harsh enough punishment for memory recall. Plain English, he won't learn. I do for a while, then I push it as far as it goes. Don't want to take the time at the pump. And have you seen those prices lately, ouch. Although I do hate a long commute on my way home from work. I've been going to give my children a membership to AAA for Christmas every year, but haven't yet. Maybe this year. If they're anything like their dad, and they are, I'm sure it will come in handy. Let your hubby know he's not alone. :)

Wow that's gotta be embarassing. But I am a member of AAA as well and I have never had to use it yet. Hopefully he did learn his lesson after today, I will never let my gas tank get that low. When it's at the line above E I will fill it because you never know if you may end up stranded or not and need heat to keep you warm.

Usually it takes something like this to learn a lesson. I always keep my tank at, at least a half a tank, if it gets under half a tank and I go and get gas, that way I never run out. I have not run out since I was back and college and that was a disaster so I am very careful about it ever since then and that was over 20 years ago. My husband did run out of gas about a year ago, he was using his friends car because his car was having problems and his friend had a company car and wasn't using his car so he let me husband use it which was nice, but my husband was not familiar with the gas gage and he ran out of gas. He called me and I had to go and borrow a gas can from the neighbor and then go put gas in it and bring it to my husband. Thank goodness for cell phones and GPS. My husband was out on a country road no where near a gas station. If he didn't have a cell phone on his he would have been in big trouble, and if I didn't have a GPS (one of the best Christmas presents ever) I might not have found him as easily as I did.

I hope that he learns his lesson too, next time he may not be so lucky and thankfully you guys have AAA, otherwise, who knows what he would have to have done to get home unless yall had another car and you could pick him up. My husband's friend does this all the time, he drives his car until there is no more gas and he would always call my husband to come pick him up to get him gas, because he too knew that my husband had a gas tank. Eventually my husband got tired of picking him up and he no longer does it. I hope that guy learned his lesson as well, that there won't always be people available to come pick him up and bring him so gas.

I know all about this my husband has ran out of gas before it was late at night after he got out of work he called me and then he called his mom & dad to come pick him up so he could get gas in the car so he could get home. I also hope he learned his lesson.

I am pretty sure this will teach him. If it wasn't the 1/2 block of walking and the rejection of filling up the gas can I am sure the additional 75minutes of waiting helped. Then there is the fact that when you are on the side of the road you get those looks from people passing by and occasionally annoying honks. If he does it again then he is just stubborn.