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VIDEO: Piqued at the petrol pump

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result from the first attempt. That goes for some people who wish to put petrol in their car but don’t quite get the spatial thing, as this video shows. The person appears to expect the filler cap to have moved from one side of the vehicle to the other simply because she drove around the petrol pump. Her confusion over the filler cap is nothing compared to other funnier – and sometimes tragic – happening
August 2, 2016 Read time: 1 min
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result from the first attempt. That goes for some people who wish to put petrol in their car but don’t quite get the spatial thing, as this video shows.

The person appears to expect the filler cap to have moved from one side of the vehicle to the other simply because she drove around the petrol pump.

Her confusion over the filler cap is nothing compared to other funnier – and sometimes tragic – happenings when people pull up to the pumps, as this %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal video Youtube video false https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVOJxdq6v4 false false%> shows.

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