Where's the logic in that?

Tonight I was getting ready to go to Target, and my husband asked me if I wanted to switch cars.  The curse of a single-width driveway is having to constantly swap the cars around depending on who's driving and where they want to go.  But I was just going to Target -- no great distance -- so I was fine driving the car at the end of the driveway, the Suburban.

When I told G that I would drive the "big" car, he said, "Well the Civic gets better gas mileage."

Really?  Like I don't know that fact.  Yet just yesterday when we were on our way home from Decatur and he had a chance to fill up the tank of the Suburban with gas that cost $3.51 per gallon, he took a pass.  When I questioned him about it, he said that we had more than enough gas to get home.  And he was right.

Now I will admit that I am not the most logical person.  I am more emotional and intuitive, but even I could see the logic in topping off our 32 gallon tank with $3.51 per gallon gas rather than waiting until we got home (175 miles later) and filling up an almost empty tank with gas that costs $3.82 per gallon.  Assuming that we'll need to put at least 20 gallons of gas in the tank, that will add up to a decent amount of money that we could have saved by purchasing less expensive gas in Decatur.

It seemed like a no-brainer to me, but he must know something I don't, right?

Yeah, right.  : /