I turn it off and put the keys on the hood just daring them to try and steal it.

If it is very hot or cold and I am staying with the vehicle I leave it running most of the time, I am also guilty of leaving the vehicle while it is filling, the nozzle shut off has never failed me........yet lol.

Buddy worked the night shift at a gas station in college.

Said a girl drove off with the pump in and ripped it completely off from the hose.
She U turned in a panic, but he saw how inebriated and attractive she was from the beginning so had a close eye on the situation and immediately shut off the pump and told her to keep driving away straight home and to not worry about it.

I am in the fleet fueling business. I'll be blunt.

You're an IDIOT if you leave a gasoline car running while fueling. Diesel not so much, but look up the difference between combustible and flammable. Gasoline vapor is heavier than air, it sinks and then covers the ground, and becomes a bomb.

Ever since I started driving I've shut it off and I always will.

Gasoline is explosive. Pour some on a pile of brush, then light a match. You don't have to be close. Diesel, Kerosone, JP4 jet fuel, charcoal lighter fluid much less volatile. So yeah, I shut my engine off while refueling and I use Diesel to start fires burning brush and leaves in my back yard.

I do remember riding with my Grandpa a few times when I was a kid, and he would be smoking a camel while pumping some gas into his old pickup.

Don’t the dispensers have vapor pumps to reduce amount of vapors escaping to the atmosphere? This might prevent vapors from gathering near the vehicle.

Also, sometimes, especially when the girlfriend is in the truck, I fart while pumping gas, maybe the vapors accumulate around the vehicle and increase ignition probability. I should hold those in going forward.

Interesting, was he fueling up the car while it was running ? I drive a diesel so at least I am not a full blown IDIOT lol.

In my car, yes. In my diesel trucks, no.

The only time I've taken a "chance" and left it running was when my battery was dead and turning off the truck would have meant getting a jump. Otherwise, always off.

Any of you idiots that pumps gas with the vehicle running ever get blown up? I havent.

No. Cell phones have to stay like 50 feet away from pumps too

Not yet, wait, what?

I have seen jet fuel glowing from static electricity.

as an idiot, what happens when you are filling your vehicle and a smart person pulls in next to you to fill his vehicle? Buckeys has over 100 pumps with cars moving in and out everywhere....Maybe I am not an idiot, you bunch of Karens....lol