For some reason, my family gets into heated shouting matches over peculiar subjects—mortgage-backed securities, Division II women’s college basketball, squirrels, the Ford Motor Company, etc. So instead of asking this question at the family dinner table and risking an all-out brawl, I figured I’d ask here—how many Model T’s were produced?

I teach creative writing at a liberal arts college in the Northeast. My Subaru is in the shop, so I’m borrowing my daughter’s Nissan Armada for the week. I went to fill it up but I realized—to my horror—that I had not the faintest idea of how to open the gas tank panel. I stood there for nearly half an hour, trying to get enough of a grip on the edge of the panel door to open it, but to no avail—it was like trying to pry open the doors to Camelot. Dejected, I got back into the SUV and drove back to the college, on fumes and feeling defeated. I felt like a shell of a man. How do I open the gas tank on a 2018 Nissan Armada?