You couldnt get gas BEFORE ?!

I really, really, find it rude when drivers pick up slugs, then decide to detour to the gas station, without a word...Really?

I will confess, I forgot to get gas once before picking up slugs.

Honestly didn't know where my brain was that morning, but I apologized, stopped, put in 3 gallons (to get me to and from work) and was on my way.

Coudl not imagine a driver going in for coffee with slugs in the car that just is remarkable rudeness from the driver.

Really now? I'd rather they stop to get gas BEFORE they pick me up!

Have we lost sight of the fact that while drivers benefit from slugging, they do still stop VOLUNTARILY. If you only want drivers that act more like chauffeurs that you can dismiss at your leisure, or expect them to adhere to some standard you as passengers have decided on, I pray tell you'd have about three cars in line each morning. Take the good with the bad, people! In my decade of using this system (both ways), I have never heard of one fatality or serious issue. Perhaps "we" have become a little spoiled?

That is not asking a driver to be a chauffeur, with slugging it is agreed that both parties are being helped, i help them by getting them in the HOV lane and they help me by getting me to work or home.

With that being said when I step in a car that is going to Potomac mills both the driver and myself are agreeing on the known slug route, I sure as heck wouldnt ask the drive to bring me to a gas station so I can get a drink, just like a driver shouldnt bring me to a gas station to get a gas.

I had my first wonderful experience with a driver who's gas got low, instead of going to potomac mills she decided to goto horner exit and take the back way on PW Parkway so she can stop and get gas. However the lady wasted more gas sitting at traffic lights and getting to that gas station then she would have if she just went up the road and stopped at potomac mills. Of course she also did not tell us till she started exiting at Horner what was going on.

I would have had no problem if she would have told me before i got in the van so I could have made a choice.

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Originally posted by LedFooT

Have we lost sight of the fact that while drivers benefit from slugging, they do still stop VOLUNTARILY. If you only want drivers that act more like chauffeurs that you can dismiss at your leisure, or expect them to adhere to some standard you as passengers have decided on, I pray tell you'd have about three cars in line each morning. Take the good with the bad, people! In my decade of using this system (both ways), I have never heard of one fatality or serious issue. Perhaps "we" have become a little spoiled?

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