Waste the Money

Everyone knows that the cost of gas is pretty high compared to the cost of it 8 years ago. Well growing up my mom would let us kids pump the gas. Not exactly sure why we loved to pump the gas so much, because I would prefer Joel fill my car up every time rather than having to it. ( gas stinks) On this particular day my youngest brother who was about 9 at the time was fill up my mother HUGE conversion van at one of the busiest gas station in our area. While my mother went inside to pay for the gas my brother finished putting in the $20.00 or so into the van. My mother sitting in the driver seat asked my brother it everything was good to go he said “yes!!” so she cranked up the van and started to drive away. She  heard a huge noise and thought she had hit something looking in the side mirror she saw the gas pump leaning, the hose was coming out of the van, and the gas pump pouring gas all over the parking lot. By the time the attendant turned off the pump almost $200.00 of gas has poured all over the parking lot. Everyone was stuck at the station until the firefighters arrived to clean up the mess. The gas station was closed for the next week and the total cost to the entire accident was about $2000.00. Word of advice ALWAY put the gas nozzle back on the pump.Needless to say there was never dull moment in my childhood.

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