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Stay by the pump, always!

Ours don't have the click in place thing, so we are forced to stand there shivering. Luckily I get gas about once every 2 months!

I get back in the car more often than not. I'd be really pissed if we had to hold the pump the entire time. I try to touch the pump as little as possible to avoid getting the smell of gas on me.

I don't usually sit back down in the car, but I'll put my card away and clean out my coffee cups and breakfast napkins (I take breakfast in the car every morning) while the gas is pumping. I always make sure to touch another part of the car to discharge static before I go back to the nozzle though.

@heartonastring: Ooh that might explain my comment! I didn't realize there was a such thing as a gas pump where you didn't have to be there to hold the thing down.

I get in the car when it is cold and windy.

My gas tank is on the driver's side, which makes it easier. In good weather I usually lean against the car next to the pump. In bad weather (i.e. windy, cold, rain, snow) I sit in the driver's seat with the door open/cracked open until it is done.

@blackbird: One time some of our employees were carpooling together and they stopped for gas. The driver didn't turn off his car while pumping gas and the rest of them got all freaked out. The driver came from India relatively recently where apparently no one ever turns off their car while pumping gas and he never noticed any of the warning signs at gas stations to turn your car off, lol.

I stay by the pump and manually press the button instead of using the stick thingy.

If you read the warning message on the pump machine, it says you are not supposed to go back into the car.... According to my electrical engineer husband, you have already grounded yourself when you get out. Your electric current (?) is the same as the outside environment. When you get back in the car or somewhere along the line, you are creating current that is different from the one where the pump is at. It can create sparks and since you are close by the gasoline it could cause an explosion...

Like @photojane: Mythbusters has stuck with me! Cell phone stays inside the car too.

I have also had the little clippy thingy fail in my old car, so I stay close by since I don't trust it. I think MA has the right idea in not allowing them and keeping people out of their cars.

Usually I just make faces at my boy like @MrsF:

I usually wipe down the front and back windshield when I am pumping or just stay outside near the pump. If it's really cold outside I get back in my car.