Woman discovers she's accidentally pumping someone else's gas after driving in to fuel up her car

This is how a routine fuel stop turned into a bizarre gas station mix-up.

The incident went viral after a driver realized she wasn’t just topping up her own tank. 

She was filling someone else’s car… on someone else’s dime.

Now the $20 mistake has the internet debating who was really at fault.

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This gas station mix-up

Ashley Miller, who goes by @millerpartyof7 on TikTok, shared the story after a routine gas stop went sideways. 

She was mid-conversation with her son, running on autopilot, when she grabbed the nozzle and started fueling. 

Seconds later, a gas station attendant came out, accusing her of pumping somebody else’s gas.

At first, she was just confused. Then it clicked: she had never entered her gas card PIN. 

This wasn’t her fuel. The twenty bucks already flowing into her car belonged to someone else. 

When she asked the attendant if he had misassigned the prepayment, he simply said, ‘Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t.’ 

By then, the tank had swallowed all $20 worth of gas, and he told her she needed to come inside and pay.

Instead, she decided to handle it herself. She noticed a young man leaning against his car and guessed he was the one who had prepaid. 

After a quick apology, she handed him $20 cash. He hesitated, but she insisted she wasn’t going to drive off with someone else’s gas.

The internet loves a fuel stop morality test

TikTok wasted no time picking sides. 

Some said she was totally in the right and that the attendant was out of line for making it her problem. 

Others pointed out that technically, the person who pumps the gas is responsible, even if the mix-up isn’t their fault. 

One commenter noted, ‘I love getting my gas in Jersey. You never touch it,’ adding that this kind of mix-up wouldn’t happen there, where self-service is still illegal – you can read more about that here.

Plenty of users sympathized with the flustered attendant too, noting that many stations make employees cover mistakes out of pocket. 

“He works in a gas station. Can’t expect tea and crumpets with that apology.”

In the end, Miller drove off $20 lighter with a viral TikTok and a story that turned a quiet fuel stop into internet fodder.

Watch the full video here:

@millerpartyof7 #storytime ♬ original sound – ashmiller

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