Petcock Paranoia

We use this term all the time here on the list, and I am really beginning to think it means different things to different people.

I will give you a real world but it didn't really actually happened quite this way situation and you explain your definition of "petcock paranoia" in light of this actual real world situation.

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V is running happily down a six lane expressway on his Savage with a 3/4 full tank of gas and he is actually busy passing a car when he gets the signal from his vac petcock that it is not going to give him enough gas to complete that maneuver safely, so he falls back and attempts to get into Prime while angling over behind that car to move over towards the right hand lane to get off the road if he has to.

Traffic cuts him off however and he successfully makes it into Prime but the gas isn't flowing yet and indeed he sputters on for a bit before he loses all power in a full vac petcock shut off scenario.

Cars are screeching their brakes and blowing their horns at him, all the way from lane to lane but he makes it safely over to the shoulder of the road and is idling his way down to a stop when in the right hand lane a guy in a big Ford pickup who is four cars back decides he doesn't want to rear end into the guy who is third back who just slammed on his brakes because he wasn't paying attention and just woke up to the fact that he needed to slow down.

Mr. Ford does him an instantaneous "dive into the ditch" right hand pass maneuver "off the road onto the shoulder" to avoiding rear ending the line of cars up in front of him.  However he does not see V who is idling down to a stop on the shoulder up in front of him until he sees him popping up over his grill.

V gets blasted forward like a hockey puck at goalie time ....


By your definition of the term Petcock Paranoia -- who should be paranoid, who actually IS paranoid and are any of these folks justified in their paranoia?

 
So, Justin, from polling the list we all KNOW that at about a 50% acceptance level that they really ARE out to get you, so you aren't really being paranoid about your vac petcock, just justifiably cautious.

BUT, just suppose ....

Suppose you personally had already had a few very mild petcock starvation events before and you actually intellectually kinda knew what they really were from reading all about them.   But you didn't like it very much and you chose not to do or to even think anything more about it ....  

Passive denial, in other words.



How do folks like that define "Petcock Paranoia" when they use the term?   Is it something associated in any way with them, or only with "them other guys"?

Here we are, gotta have a paranoia poll if you are going to have a paranoia war.

OK, ZAR you know about it and are keeping a weather eye out but as yet have not had any symptoms.

You are not paranoid, just aware.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 11/05/12 at 17:51:19:


     Yep! That'd be me JOG! My motto is "don't dare to be different...just do it"...be different that is  .

rfw2003 wrote on 11/05/12 at 18:05:52:


RF that's the one excuse I could use for spending the $$ for a raptor. Getting the tank off with the stock "vac-sucker" is like trying to get a kiss from "   she who must be obeyed" after a "short ride" turned into an "all-day road trip"

& You, sir, are a very wise man..

Mine showed up in the mail today... if I had a gas can to drain my tank I would have put it on already.