Pluggers by Rick McKee for November 12, 2020

A plugger allows his gas to go that low?

either he forgot his cell phone, doesn’t carry one, the phone’s battery went dead, or its signal is weak… all thus making him unable to call AAA for a tow truck

He should’ve never tried to drive to Zionsville, Indiana.

Well, I can push mine if it’s downhill….

He’s not a real Plugger. He doesn’t have a Jerrycan in the back of his truck. ;-)

My low gas warning light stayed on so much that it finally burned out, how many people can claim that?

Pushing it with his bear hands.

That happened a lot in the High School days of the 1970s for some strange reason ;-)

The pluggers I know (me, included) fill up at half tank.

A Plugger usually has a gas can in his truck for one thing or another. I do and normally don’t go below a half tank.

I wonder if it was suppose to be: " A Plugger never buys a truck he can’t push start"?

Like most of the previous posts.. Not a true plugger if he runs out of gas.

a plugger would have a gas can and a hose

Carrying extra gas is carrying extra weight which robs performance and reduces mileage, which us Pluggers can’t afford. Driving with my daughter one day, she asked, " When do you fill up? Mom does it at 1/4 tank." At that moment, the engine died; so I replied, “When the engine stops.” Now the 1971 Pontiac Catalina was one of the longest, heaviest cars ever made (remember “Longer, Lower, Wider”?) and the road was on a gentle decline, and a Shell station (the only gas with lubricant for those old exhaust valves) was just 1/2 mile ahead. Well, I didn’t have to worry about no power assist, as that beautiful beast finally rolled to a stop directly beside the pumps, without a touch of the brakes.

That’s one thing I really liked about my 78 Plymouth Horizon – a calibrated gas gauge. Instead of a “Low Gas” light, there was a mark that indicated two and a half gallons remaining. I tested it one time, and found that when the needle hit the bottom of the E there was about half a gallon of gas left. With consistent gas mileage, and a little mental calculation, it was easy to determine when to fill up

A real Plugger never lets his gas get low….

I’m a plugger, and I have AAA!

All vehicles can be pushed.

My old Plymouth had a gage problem. The gage read empty when it had a half tank of gas. Actually ran out of gas trying to guess how much gas way left for the rest of the week until payday.

I have ran out of gas twice in my life, once I actually was able to coast into a gas station, the other, the gauge was stuck at 1/2 full indication, unknown to me at least until that time.

If you’re a plugger, then you probably remember the 1970s oil crises and the LOOOONG lines at the gas pumps. Since I had my full drivers license, my sister was too young and both my parents worked, I was the one designated to go get the cars filled on the appropriate days (car tags decided which days you could fill up). I got pretty good at getting to the pumps early and getting the cars filled up. But we did have some long waits and that was before iPhones and tablets. Sigh. Anyway, one of the stories that came out of that (don’t know if it is true or not, but I hope it is), was – long line of people waiting for gas. Some jerk far down the line started honking his horn yelling for people to hurry up! I think there was only one pump open at the time, or something. Anyway, someone got really tired of it, got his gas, took his locking gas cap off his car, walked down to the jerk and swapped gas caps, locking his gas cap onto the other guy’s car. Then walked back and left. So jerk COULDN’T get gas until he got the locked gas cap off. I just smile every time I think of it. I really hope it happened somewhere.