I couldn't help but do it. I shot a ground hog a few days ago and then the next day I was going down to my patch of woods to cut wood and my tractor ran out of diesel, I don't have a gauge. My wife can barely get around and it would have taken her longer to get to the truck than for me to walk 3/4 mi. When I got to the house she asked what was wrong and I told her the groundhog was getting even with me. She said it sounded to her like I was just too lazy to put fuel in my tractor, lol.
I use a stick as a fuel gauge, primitive but it works. My tractor does not like my running it out of fuel and I have to succumb to the ritual to get it running again...