{"id":37777,"date":"2026-08-15T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=37777"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:47:12","slug":"man-tries-to-impress-date-by-filling-suv-with-premium-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/man-tries-to-impress-date-by-filling-suv-with-premium-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Tries To Impress Date By Filling SUV With Premium Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA\u00a0\u2014 A local man reportedly attempted to impress his date Friday night by filling his SUV with premium gasoline, a lavish gesture he described as the kind of thing you do when you really want a woman to know you\u2019re doing well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought about taking her to a nice restaurant, but then I looked at gas prices,\u201d said 34-year-old Kevin Matthews. \u201cI figured I could either spend $120 on dinner or spend $120 putting fuel in my vehicle. At least with the gas, I get something out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matthews reportedly pulled into a<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/man-wakes-from-30-year-coma-finds-gas-at-400-a-gallon-and-u-s-hours-away-from-iran-peace-deal\/\"> gas station<\/a> with his date and confidently selected the premium option, despite normally filling his SUV with regular unleaded.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews reportedly considered stopping at $100 but decided to continue filling the tank after noticing his date watching the pump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it reached $112, I told her, \u2018Money\u2019s no object tonight,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s when I knew I was really making an impression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At press time, Matthews was reportedly considering putting a second date on his credit card after realizing he had only enough money left for approximately three gallons of gasoline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA\u00a0\u2014 A local man reportedly attempted to impress his date Friday night by filling his SUV with premium gasoline, a lavish gesture he described as the kind of thing you do when you really want a woman to know you\u2019re doing well. \u201cI thought about taking her to a nice restaurant, but then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[329,833,1113],"class_list":["post-37777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-u-s-news","tag-dating","tag-gas","tag-rated-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}