I pull into Shell in Bowling Green (I was there all day) today to fill up. I didn't want to ($3.47/gallon) but I did due to being down to a quarter of a tank with a 120 mile drive ahead of me.

Well....it takes me SEVEN attempts to get my car filled up.

Try 1: Pump shuts off (like it normally would with a full tank) after only a gallon-ish pumped.

Try 2, Same Pump: Same exact thing.

Try 3, New Pump: Tried to pay via Debit, got "See Attendant"

Try 4, Same Pump: Paid...dry as a bone.

Try 5, Same Pump: Attendant reset the machine...dry.

Try 6, on my THIRD pump now: Try again...I get as far as "Begin Fueling Now" but it's STILL DRY.

Try 7: The manager resets the pumps on that entire side, tries again. Go out, SLAM the Regular button....SUCCESS!

Not to mention on the first pump I was at the buttons to decline (or accept) a carwash and receipt were broken, so I was screaming at the machines ALREADY.

Why didn't I just take a refund, you ask? By the time we all realized something was catastrophically wrong, I was hellbent on getting my gasoline from 'emeven if I had to siphon it from the main tanks. Mind you, the station employees (both older gentlemen, probably late 50s/early 60s) were great about the whole thing, but we were all confused as heck.

SHEESH.

Probably too much banging around of every button and lever within reach by people steamed at the prices. :)

Man, that's crazy.

That;s CRAZY

Seth, what is it with you and cars lately?? :lol: I've had problems filling up at Marathon in the past myself, but never SEVEN attempts. That's almost as bad as the prices!!! :eek:

that sounds SO annoying. what a hassle!

Sounds like the male version of a Lucille Ball deal, lol.

Isn't automation great?!

:lol:

Sounds like my kind of luck. I'm the girl who spilled gas on herself TWICE in 2007. ohno:

It kind of makes you long for the day when the attendant did it all while you could sit in the car & watch.

As high as the price of gas is these days they should practically pump the gas for you.

As if going to the pumps isn't shocking enough (because of the prices!)... Wow, luckily, that's never happened to me.

As high as the price of gas is these days they should practically pump the gas for you.
AMEN to that!

That's ridiculous lol! Bowling Green? In what state?

That's ridiculous lol! Bowling Green? In what state?

Kentucky.

As high as the price of gas is these days they should practically pump the gas for you.

They do if you live in New Jersey or Oregon where it's against the law to pump your own gas. :rolleyes:

Seth, that has happened to me before, at a Shell station near Dayton. I start pumping, then after about a drop it shuts off. The situation repeats itself a number of times. I went and asked an attendant about it, and he (or was it a she? it was a long time ago) said it was because the nozzle had a kink in it near the hole out of which the gas comes out. I reposition the nozzle in the tank, thinking that the level of gas is influencing it to shut down ever so prematurely. Still the cycle repeats itself. Fortunately I have moved away from this Shell station, and the stations near me don't have this problem. (That might have to do with the fact I always pay at the pump!)