I had a mishap at the gas pump

[Huck BB62]

Egads, people are harsh (and uninformed)

#1. Cell phones don't and can't cause gas ignition. The Mythbusters tried fifteen ways to hell and back to try to make it. There's no contacts, relays, spark making means for one to do so. Myth busted, it's an urban legend.

#2. If cars running caused a tank to blow up, we'd all be dead. There's half a dozen cars running around you at any given moment.

#3. What IS dangerous is static. THIS has been proven to cause ignition of gas fumes, the same as filling gas containers in the back of a truck. Women, more than men, get into the car while it's filling, then get out. They build up a healthy static charge. Reach over and touch the pump housing, and a part of the car (not near the danged gas nozzle) to get rid of the charge.

[Desert Dan]

1 gallon of gasoline (vapor) = 20 sticks of dynamite!

Gasoline is readily available and routinely used in most households. In spite of the routine use of gasoline, many people are unaware of or unappreciative of the dangers of gasoline. Gasoline is dangerous because it is highly volatile. The fumes are capable of ignition up to12 feet away from a pooled source. It can float on water and may spread long distances, making ignition and flash back possible. Gasoline may ignite from a nearby spark, flame, or even static electricity and become a "fireball" with a temperature of 15,000 degrees F.
Two physical properties explain why gasoline is significantly more hazardous than other flammable liquids found in the home:

• Flash point?the minimum temperature at which the liquid will give off sufficientvapor to form an ignitable mixture with air.
• Vapor density?ratio of density of vapor to the density of air. Substances with avapor density greater than 1 are heavier than air and tend to accumulate in low orenclosed spaces.

[fourfourto]

#2. If cars running caused a tank to blow up, we'd all be dead. There's half a dozen cars running around you at any given moment.

Wasn't worryed about it running so much as much as the gas waterfalling out the fill hole , I got out away from pump quickly as posible(had to restart truck) and hosed it down 50 feet away.
I hope the attendant did a proper clean up ,I saw him put a cone there.