Anonymous
Post 03/04/2026 22:05     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
I can think of far worse shared public objects to touch. The condiment dispensers at sporting events and the Costco food court, any portion of the metrobus, and the barbells at the gym.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2026 21:47     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Telepathically press.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2026 21:43     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I use my hand.

I think maybe this thread is going to be legendary?


+1
Here we goooooooooo!

Normal people use their hands. It's a button. I usually have the gas spigot thing IN the TANK when I start pressing all the buttons.

Also, prediction, we'll get to Page 3 of this thread and someone will helpfully tell us about the arrow that indicates which side of your car the tank is. Like we were all born yesterday.


To be sure, I was well into my 40s before I learned that LOL


Ummmm where is this arrow? (I am 44)


On the gas gauge. There was a link.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2026 21:38     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I use my hand.

I think maybe this thread is going to be legendary?


+1
Here we goooooooooo!

Normal people use their hands. It's a button. I usually have the gas spigot thing IN the TANK when I start pressing all the buttons.

Also, prediction, we'll get to Page 3 of this thread and someone will helpfully tell us about the arrow that indicates which side of your car the tank is. Like we were all born yesterday.


To be sure, I was well into my 40s before I learned that LOL


Ummmm where is this arrow? (I am 44)
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2026 21:00     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Anonymous wrote:I can't believe I'm the first pompous ahole to bring this up, but I haven't had to pump gas for years! I charge as needed at home


I bought an electric car immediately after the first time I saw someone using the gas nozzle to select the grade. Thank goodness I no longer have to frequent gas stations.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2026 20:59     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hand.

But I do wear my leather gas pumping gloves so no contact.


Then you touch everything in your car and BAM CONTACT!


No, because the leather gloves used for gas pumping are not the same as leather driving gloves. Do people really not know this? You must have grown up in New Jersey.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2026 20:55     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Today I learned that some people use the gas pump to select the grade.


It must be a stupid tiktok thing that spread.


I saw people doing it during COVID.

I use the foam finger I keep in my car for this very purpose.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2026 00:34     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Knuckle.

I am a germphobe and it has never remotely occurred to me to use the pump.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2026 00:32     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DD is learning to drive. I’ve noticed more now than ever before that some people tap the grade with the actual pump and I always was taught to use my hand to press it.

Visual for those who may be confused:

Do you use the tip of the pump:


To select this:


Or do you use your hand?


Somehow I made it 54 years of life and 38 years of driving without knowing this is a thing.

I use my hand. Like a normal person.


+1. Bizzarist post of the year
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2026 23:04     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Anonymous wrote:I always use my hands and wash after. I really hope people aren’t so rude as to use the gas pump and spread gas everywhere.


Gas evaporates before this would happen.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2026 22:55     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Are you in New Jersey?
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2026 22:55     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
Um obviously the answer is neither. It's elbow.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2026 22:20     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
I take the bus. I am probably immune to everything by now.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2026 18:14     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
I can't believe I'm the first pompous ahole to bring this up, but I haven't had to pump gas for years! I charge as needed at home
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2026 17:57     Subject: Do you use the gas pump to physically select the fuel grade or do you use your hand to select it?
I push it with my hand. Like a normal person. It's no more disgusting than your average door handle or grocery cart, perhaps less so.