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<p>A lot of people have scary memories of their parents losing them in the grocery store, but not many can say they were accidentally stranded by a partner at a gas station in the middle of nowhere.</p><h2>In a recent post on <a href="https://i.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/crig8y/tifu_by_falling_asleep_in_the_back_of_my/" target="_blank">the subreddit Today I F*cked Up</a> a woman shared the story of how she got stranded while on a road trip with her boyfriend.</h2><p>During their drive from New Mexico to Mexico, OP was napping in the back of their converted Honda Element. When OP&#39;s boyfriend went in to fill the car with gas, she snuck out to use the bathroom, not thinking to warn him.</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;Last summer. We&#39;re on a road trip from New Mexico to Mexico. We have a Honda Element converted for living in, so I crawl in the back to nap while he&#39;s driving. He stops at a gas station in the desert of Arizona and while he&#39;s pumping, I get out to use the bathroom. Come back out, don&#39;t see him, and walk around the parking lot to have a look.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>When OP emerged from the bathroom, she didn&#39;t see him, but assumed he&#39;d moved the car.</h2><p>However, when she got to the parking lot it was clear he was gone. It took a minute for the reality to sink in before she went to call him from her phone, quickly realizing her phone was also in the car.</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;I jokingly think to myself that maybe he drove off not knowing that i got out to use the restroom, but brush that off. I sit on a bench outside twiddling my thumbs, realizing this may now actually be the case. I reach for my phone to call him, but of course my phone is in the car.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>When OP asked the cashier to use the mini mart phone, they refused - which forced her to ask strangers to use their phones.</h2><p>Sadly, OP didn&#39;t remember her boyfriend&#39;s phone number and by the time she was able to track it down, his phone had died.</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;I go back inside to ask the cashier to use their phone, but she says they don&#39;t have one. Obviously they do, but whatever. So I start asking random people in the store to use their phone, which makes people visibly uncomfortable because we&#39;re in the middle of nowhere and they think I&#39;ll steal it I guess. I go back outside and continue asking strangers for their phone. I realize I don&#39;t know my boyfriends number by heart so I just call my phone repeatedly, hoping he&#39;ll answer. He doesn&#39;t. I use one person&#39;s phone to log into my facebook to find my boyfriend&#39;s number, but alas, his phone is dead when I call.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>A lot of people were suspicious of OP&#39;s sob story, assuming she was going to steal, but some kind souls obliged.</h2><p>While OP was clearly distressed and crying, she noticed the store clerk eyeing her suspiciously through the windows.</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;I resort to explaining to everyone whose phone I ask to use my situation. Some don&#39;t believe me, others feel really bad, and one man offered to buy me a hotel room for the night in the next town over thinking that my boyfriend left me on purpose and I was just being modest. It&#39;s been about 2 hours now. The store clerks through the windows have been looking at me suspiciously for a while, I&#39;m still sitting on this bench in the desert, and have no idea what to do and start bawling my eyes out.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>Not long after being suspiciously eyed, OP was approached by a cop due to her loitering.</h2><p>Luckily, the cop had empathy towards OP and offered to drive her to a rest stop.</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;A cop car pulls up and the officer comes to me and lets me know the store clerks called them because ive been loitering, haggling people for phones outside of their store and crying. I explain my situation and shes as confused and sympathetic as all the other people. She tells me I can&#39;t stay there so she can either take me to a truck rest stop in the town over or go to the police station.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>As OP rode down the driveway with the cop, another cop called to report a guy looking for his girlfriend at the gas station.</h2><p>When OP and her boyfriend were reunited they both simultaneously laughed and cried at the situation.</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;I ask her to take me to the rest stop, although shes not convinced that my boyfriend legitimately left me there on accident. We&#39;re driving down the highway when on her radio another cop says he&#39;s at the gas station and there&#39;s a guy there looking for his girlfriend. I just crack up and she does too, flips the car around and takes me back. And there my boyfriend is standing outside of his car, banging on the windows and nearly crying because he couldn&#39;t believe he&#39;d actually done that.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>Apparently, OP&#39;s boyfriend assumed she was sleeping in the back of the car until he turned around to gush about some of the scenery.</h2><p>At that point, he soon realized she was gone and quickly drove back to the gas station. Understandably, OP&#39;s boyfriend was nervous she was angry at him and that it potentially ruined their relationship.</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;He said he was passing some really cool scenery far into the drive and went to wake me up to see too when he realized I wasn&#39;t in the car, flipped it around and drove faster than he&#39;s ever driven in his life to get back to the gas station. And that he wondered why so many people kept calling me, but didn&#39;t feel comfortable answering my phone. He thought for sure that was the end of our relationship and the trip was ruined.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Luckily, both OP and her boyfriend were able to move on with the rest of their vacation and enjoy it.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;EDIT: I understand IFU by not relaying my need to pee. Also that it all sounds really stupid objectively and in retrospect, but it makes sense how things happened at the time. Also have never heard of this Last Man on Earth episode until now, so that&#39;s pretty funny. I have many a text message/facebook post to prove this happened IRL.</p> <p>Not so great Element/Trip pics: <a href="http://imgur.com/gallery/SVBZIwp">http://imgur.com/gallery/SVBZIwp</a>&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;TLDR: went to use the bathroom while my boyfriend was pumping gas, he didn&#39;t know, drove off, and I was stranded, asking people to use their phones for hours until police were called to come get me.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>However, it&#39;s highly unlikely they&#39;ll ever approach a gas station the same way again.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman's shares story of being accidentally left at gas station by friend during road trip.

A lot of people have scary memories of their parents losing them in the grocery store, but not many can say they were accidentally stranded by a partner at a gas station in the middle of nowhere.In a recent post on the subreddit Today I F*cked Up a woman shared the story of how she got stranded while on a road trip with her boyfriend.During their drive from New Mexico to Mexico, OP was napping in the back of their converted Honda Element. When OP&#39;s boyfriend went in to fill the car with gas, she snuck out to use the bathroom, not thinking to warn him. &quot;Last summer. We&#39;re on a road trip from New Mexico to Mexico. We have a Honda Element converted for living in, so I crawl in the back to nap while he&#39;s driving. He stops at a gas station in the desert of Arizona and while he&#39;s pumping, I get out to use the bathroom. Come back out, don&#39;t see him, and walk around the parking lot to have a look. When OP emerged from the bathroom, she didn&#39;t see him, but assumed he&#39;d moved the car.However, when she got to the parking lot it was clear he was gone. It took a minute for the reality to sink in before she went to call him from her phone, quickly realizing her phone was also in the car. &quot;I jokingly think to myself that maybe he drove off not knowing that i got out to use the restroom, but brush that off. I sit on a bench outside twiddling my thumbs, realizing this may now actually be the case. I reach for my phone to call him, but of course my phone is in the car.&quot; When OP asked the cashier to use the mini mart phone, they refused - which forced her to ask strangers to use their phones.Sadly, OP didn&#39;t remember her boyfriend&#39;s phone number and by the time she was able to track it down, his phone had died. &quot;I go back inside to ask the cashier to use their phone, but she says they don&#39;t have one. Obviously they do, but whatever. So I start asking random people in the store to use their phone, which makes people visibly uncomfortable because we&#39;re in the middle of nowhere and they think I&#39;ll steal it I guess. I go back outside and continue asking strangers for their phone. I realize I don&#39;t know my boyfriends number by heart so I just call my phone repeatedly, hoping he&#39;ll answer. He doesn&#39;t. I use one person&#39;s phone to log into my facebook to find my boyfriend&#39;s number, but alas, his phone is dead when I call.&quot; A lot of people were suspicious of OP&#39;s sob story, assuming she was going to steal, but some kind souls obliged.While OP was clearly distressed and crying, she noticed the store clerk eyeing her suspiciously through the windows. &quot;I resort to explaining to everyone whose phone I ask to use my situation. Some don&#39;t believe me, others feel really bad, and one man offered to buy me a hotel room for the night in the next town over thinking that my boyfriend left me on purpose and I was just being modest. It&#39;s been about 2 hours now. The store clerks through the windows have been looking at me suspiciously for a while, I&#39;m still sitting on this bench in the desert, and have no idea what to do and start bawling my eyes out.&quot; Not long after being suspiciously eyed, OP was approached by a cop due to her loitering.Luckily, the cop had empathy towards OP and offered to drive her to a rest stop. &quot;A cop car pulls up and the officer comes to me and lets me know the store clerks called them because ive been loitering, haggling people for phones outside of their store and crying. I explain my situation and shes as confused and sympathetic as all the other people. She tells me I can&#39;t stay there so she can either take me to a truck rest stop in the town over or go to the police station.&quot; As OP rode down the driveway with the cop, another cop called to report a guy looking for his girlfriend at the gas station.When OP and her boyfriend were reunited they both simultaneously laughed and cried at the situation. &quot;I ask her to take me to the rest stop, although shes not convinced that my boyfriend legitimately left me there on accident. We&#39;re driving down the highway when on her radio another cop says he&#39;s at the gas station and there&#39;s a guy there looking for his girlfriend. I just crack up and she does too, flips the car around and takes me back. And there my boyfriend is standing outside of his car, banging on the windows and nearly crying because he couldn&#39;t believe he&#39;d actually done that.&quot; Apparently, OP&#39;s boyfriend assumed she was sleeping in the back of the car until he turned around to gush about some of the scenery.At that point, he soon realized she was gone and quickly drove back to the gas station. Understandably, OP&#39;s boyfriend was nervous she was angry at him and that it potentially ruined their relationship. &quot;He said he was passing some really cool scenery far into the drive and went to wake me up to see too when he realized I wasn&#39;t in the car, flipped it around and drove faster than he&#39;s ever driven in his life to get back to the gas station. And that he wondered why so many people kept calling me, but didn&#39;t feel comfortable answering my phone. He thought for sure that was the end of our relationship and the trip was ruined.&quot; Luckily, both OP and her boyfriend were able to move on with the rest of their vacation and enjoy it. &quot;EDIT: I understand IFU by not relaying my need to pee. Also that it all sounds really stupid objectively and in retrospect, but it makes sense how things happened at the time. Also have never heard of this Last Man on Earth episode until now, so that&#39;s pretty funny. I have many a text message/facebook post to prove this happened IRL. Not so great Element/Trip pics: http://imgur.com/gallery/SVBZIwp&quot;  &quot;TLDR: went to use the bathroom while my boyfriend was pumping gas, he didn&#39;t know, drove off, and I was stranded, asking people to use their phones for hours until police were called to come get me.&quot; However, it&#39;s highly unlikely they&#39;ll ever approach a gas station the same way again.

She will never view gas stations the same.