Chinese takeout $30.00…gas to pick it up $20.00…

Posted by Mindless-Process-629@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 71 comments

Getting home and realizing they have forgotten one of your containers…Riceless

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Facts_pls@reddit

Asking the real questions. A typical gas car does 10km per litre. 1 litre costs about $1.5

This means they used approx 20/1.5 = 13 litres

This means they drove approx 130 km or 65 km each way.

Not impossible but it must be a good restaurant to drive so far.

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wiines@reddit

Yeah,but who buys 1 liter/gallon at a time? Even getting only $20 worth of gasoline is a low amount.

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AmberPeacemaker@reddit

Maybe those living off of tips who can only afford to kick $5-10 in at a time?

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kevronwithTechron@reddit

If you're coming home from a tipped job with $5-10 to spare, maybe customer service isn't for you.

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My point was to show that there are people who aren't always able to buy a full tank of gas. There were a few times where I was only able to get gas with the loose change I could scrounge up to limp to the next paycheck and I wasn't even a tipped worker with a subminimum wage. People forget that there are places where the minimum wage for tipped workers is STILL $2.18/hr. Yeah, places are supposed to pay you to get you to the $7.50/hr true minimum wage if you miss the mark, but that means you gotta clear about $200/wk in tips before your tips no longer offset the min wage. If the place you worked at had a slow week, guess what? Now you get to decide if you're gonna pay that overdue bill before the electric gets shut off, or get food for your kids, or buy 5 gallons of off-road diesel to run in your furnace to limp through the winter, because gods know when you'll have the flexibility to dump $400 (i.e. more than a full week's pay) for the 100 gallons of K-1 that is the minimum to get the oil company to deliver.

The person I replied to was asking what I felt was a genuine question. YOU on the other hand, are just being a judgemental arse.

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kevronwithTechron@reddit

Am I in the jokes sub or the sob story sub? Or right, jokes!

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AmberPeacemaker@reddit

Dude asked a legitimate question, I answered with a possibility of why they couldn't, then you punched down. I made it through that hell, others are still there.

TL;DR: There's joking, and then there's punching down. Only one of these is funny.

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Facts_pls@reddit

Nobody said they bought 20 dollars of gas. They just used 20 dollars of gas

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BaldyFecker@reddit

My Corolla Hybrid averages 4.4l per 100km. 22.73 km per litre.

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kaskudoo@reddit

You didn’t consider the possibility of an American pickup truck :(

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Old_Environment_6530@reddit

I love you because of metrics

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Awkward-Penalty6313@reddit

Here in America 17 miles per gallon is what the truck gets in a good day. I'm going to get Chinese food 19.5 miles away in my case, on roads averaging 40 miles per hour, which takes me about...28 minutes. 4.5 gallons of gas is only 13 bucks so I'm guessing his fuel efficiency is more like 13 mpg or less. Or maybe he did travel 30 miles each way for Chinese food.

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banananas_are_sick24@reddit

I get 6 mpg at ~3.8 dollars per gallon, meaning I drive about 15 miles each way to get my takeout. Not unreasonable. Most people get far more than that though, I’m just an outlier.

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jomabu23@reddit

We go all out when we get Chinese takeout, so our order is usually more like $50. On the other hand, the takeout is only 2 miles away. Our standard sedan gets about 25 mpg, and gas is usually around $3/gal, so the food run fuel costs about 50 cents.

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kevronwithTechron@reddit

Uh... Why?

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palbertalamp@reddit

I’m just an outlier.

As an important and dangerous secret agent , I painted the entire inside of my house with bullet proof paint, all walls , ceilings,and floors. Used 6 gallons of kevlar paint, at 40 dollars a gallon.

But I'm just an in liar.

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Phrich@reddit

Don't drive a schoolbus to pick up Chinese takeout then, boss

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General2768@reddit

I once had a truck that got 3 gallons to the mile...

/s just in case anyone think I'm serious. I assure you, I'm anything but.

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AmberPeacemaker@reddit

You laugh, I had a 1979 F-150 Ranger in '09 that the previous owner shoehorned a 390FE with a 4 barrel carb out of a '63 Thunderbird. I had the carb go rich on me (needed a new carb [too expensive for my pay], and/or a rebuild kit [too technical for my skills as a 20 year old]). I legitimately dropped to about 3 MPG. She would pass anything but a gas station. Had to fill the 20 gallon tank every other day until it got to be too much and I used my income tax return as a down payment on a 99 Wrangler. Sorry... off on a tangent now.

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Awkward-Penalty6313@reddit

Seriously silly, cut that out...

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Melodic-Ant7206@reddit

Whaaaa? 4.5 gallons is 13 bucks? Wow. 4.5 gal here (so cal) is $25 :/

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Awkward-Penalty6313@reddit

Northern new England, Canadian gas is bringing the price down here until tariff boy screws it up.

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saccage@reddit

Gotta love those subsidized gas prices

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armaghetto@reddit

Trying to figure out where you’re from based on the usage of both $ and km.

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JessicaFletcher1@reddit

Estimated gas price is too cheap for Australia, but matches up very closely with where I am in Ontario, so your Canada sounds right to me!

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kalstras@reddit

I’m not Canada, you’re Canada 🇨🇦

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Actual_Mortician@reddit

Man, I wish I were Canada right now.

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armaghetto@reddit

In that case, I’m so sorry on behalf of every American I know. I sincerely love Canada.

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beufenstein@reddit

They also spelt “litre” the proper way.

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kalstras@reddit

And to you, you spelt ‘spelled’ correctly

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crazyswedishguy@reddit

Considering the joke was in dollars (I assume USD) and that gas prices in the US are closer to $0.85/litre (obviously this varies based on where you are in the US), it’s significantly farther than that.

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