I get a call from a guy at work yesterday. He is the lone liberal in the office. He was in town driving home for lunch and had ran out of gas and needed me to go help him.

My first thought is how in the fugg do you run out of gas in the middle of town where there is a gas station at the corner of damn near every intersection?

Well I go get the truck and pick him up and take him to the nearest gas station about 2 blocks away, he could have easily walked there but being a lazy fugging liberal that was obviously to much work.

On the way to the gas station he explains how he ran out of gas buy telling me, "I don't know what happened, I can usually go way below the "E" without running out of gas."

So question, is it common practice to let your gas gauge to way below empty before you decide to fill up? Am I missing something?