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He might genuinely be out of gas. That exact situation happened once when I was a kid, my dad's girlfriend at the time was running low all afternoon and ignoring it, and when we finally pulled into the gas station her car died at the pump--and we were facing backwards. (As to why she faced the wrong direction with a car she'd owned for years, well...) She first tried to start the engine up again to turn around, but when she couldn't, I had to get out and help her yank the pump cable tightly over the trunk so she could get it to to the opposite side.
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