JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT IS DUMB

I actually saw her talking about this on the Tonight Show last week, but now it’s in the paper so I’ll post it here. Jennifer Love Hewitt apparently can’t tell the difference between when a gas station attendant does and doesn’t actually put gas in her car. She wound up running out of gas on Robertson Boulevard in LA. Here’s how she explains it.

“I was on a very important conference call and I was in a dress so I thought, ‘I’ll let someone else put the gas in the car today.’ I never do that.

“I gave him $40 and I drove away. It never dawned on me to check he’d actually put the gas in the car. He pocketed my $40, never put gas in the car and I get to Robertson, the one street filled with paparazzi and I’m like: ‘Oh, it’s not going… This is not funny.’

“I had to get out and I started pushing my Mini Cooper down the street. Thank God I don’t drive an SUV or something.

“People got out and they helped me, with the paparazzi shooting photos. It was incredibly embarrassing. A paparazzi actually helped me go get gas for my car, so they’re not all bad.”

Paparazzi are sweet. “Love” made it a point to indicate that she usually pumps her own gas, which I guess is a big deal or something. I live in New Jersey and all gas stations here are full serve by law. It’s apparently illegal to pump your own gas here, what with the propensity for women with their big Jersey hair to get discombobulated and start pumping gas into all manner of orifice other than the gas tank itself.

November 7th, 2005 TG