The longer I live, the more I’m surprised at the little things I don’t know. The other day my friend, Dick Womack, and I were on our way to the food bank to pick up USDA surplus items for our church’s food pantry. En route, Dick decided to stop for gasoline. Since he was driving Yvonne’s (his wife) SUV, I asked him if he knew on which side of the car the filler cap was located. He pointed to the fuel gauge with the gasoline pump symbol and informed me that the small arrow next to it, pointing to the left, indicated that the filler cap was on the left side of the car. When I remarked that Cadillac thinks of everything he also informed me that, for several years now, most cars have had some kind of filler cap location symbol.
As I was driving home in my 2006 Toyota Avalon I looked at the fuel gauge. After all these years I finally noticed the little arrow pointing left. I never knew. The good news is that I’ll never again have to stop, get out of the car, and locate the filler cap before pulling up to the pump in a rental car.
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.” -- Margaret Fuller
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