I’m sitting at a stop light, and a Dodge Challenger pulls up in the lane to the right of me. As the driver evidently lives his life a quarter mile at a time, when the light turns green, he takes off, leaving me behind. But not before I noticed the fuel cap on the vehicle.
Clearly, the only way I knew it was the fuel cap was because it was clearly marked FUEL, and not because it was located on the rear quadrant of the vehicle LIKE 98% OF CONSUMER VEHICLES.
If the cap did not so succinctly indicate that fuel was to go inside of this depository, I’d be afraid that I might recognize it as a dock for my Confederate flag to embed into, or perhaps I might mistake it for a port where I could discreetly urinate into when I have to go to the bathroom. But because it’s marked FUEL, I know that it is neither of those things, and only a repository for gasoline. Good thing too, because I’d hate to have made such an embarrassing mistake.
In all seriousness though, can we recognize the Challenger’s fuel cap design as being something completely redundant and almost insulting? Like who really needs to be told where the fuel needs to go? I rent a lot of cars, so the only thing I really need to know is which side of the car the fuel port is on, because I’m fairly positive I’m going to be able to locate it on my own once I figure out which side it’s on.
(On a side note, I never knew that it’s possible to figure out which side of the car the fuel port is on from within the car; you only have to look at the little gas pump icon on the fuel gauge, and there’s a tiny triangle on the left or right side that indicates)
The saddest thing is that the FUEL cap appears to be standard equipment on the car nowadays. You can’t even get rid of it if you wanted to, because there’s no alternate options to the FUEL cap. How ironic is that; it’s so clearly labeled to make it retard-proof, but in the process of having it, you look like a retard because you need to be told that it’s for FUEL only. Who knew that owning a Challenger would be so . . . challenging?
