Why having your gas pumped sucks.

[E30 Wagen]

Am I understanding this right? It's mandatory that an attendant be the one to operate the fuel machines at gas stations in NJ and Oregon?

[HarryPotter]

I wish somebody pumped my gas. Fuck getting out and doing it myself.

[Ryan Stewart]

Am I understanding this right? It's mandatory that an attendant be the one to operate the fuel machines at gas stations in NJ and Oregon?

That was my experience in NJ. Its obviously some lobby bullshit because if it were safety they wouldn't have third world transplants manning the pumps.

[FLYNAVY]

Same in OR. You will be mobbed by angry gas station attendants if you try to pump your own car. I've made this mistake several times coming home to visit and forgetting that this is the rule. Getting pump service normally doesn't make me rage unless it's a busy station and I just sit there for several minutes (when I could have been pumping myself and on my way) waiting for them to get to my car.

[priapism]

Also when the doesn't-give-a-shit attendant spills gas all down the side of your car. I'm waiting for the day the idiot drips gas onto flaming hot brake rotors and ignites both of them.

But oh, it's safer and adds jobs, right?

[u3b3rg33k]

It was never about safety - just jobs.

[CHIF8008]

be a man. pump your own gas. oh your state doesn't allow that?-yeah you guessed it, you are living in the wrong frickin state.

[lolcantturn]

Love how people think this is about being cheap. Hilarious.

[leothedrummer]

Man, I can't imagine having to do fuel the way you guys do it in the US. Here, I pull up at the bowser, fill up, then walk in, pay and drive off. Funny thing is, if it's really busy and there's a massive lineup of cars, it's commonplace to get in your car and move away from the bowser before paying, so as to leave space for the next guy.

[Ryan Stewart]

Man, I can't imagine having to do fuel the way you guys do it in the US. Here, I pull up at the bowser, fill up, then walk in, pay and drive off. Funny thing is, if it's really busy and there's a massive lineup of cars, it's commonplace to get in your car and move away from the bowser before paying, so as to leave space for the next guy.

Its only in a couple of shitty states its like that. Most you swipe card, pump it yourself and be on your merry way.

[Nick_S]

Am I understanding this right? It's mandatory that an attendant be the one to operate the fuel machines at gas stations in NJ and Oregon?

Yes. When I was in college, there was a girl who was here from NJ. She was complaining one that she had to drive around for 45 minutes before she found a station here that would pump her gas. She didn't know how to

[mrsleeve]

In jesery they passed the law in 1949, and back then a gas pump was not as idiot proof as they are now. It was thought that the layman was not smart enough and that "trained professionals" should operate the pumps that dispense such large amounts of highly flammable liquid.

Not to say it was never about safety, it had some roots in that, NOW its about control and jobs.

[CarsSuck]

Man, I can't imagine having to do fuel the way you guys do it in the US. Here, I pull up at the bowser, fill up, then walk in, pay and drive off. Funny thing is, if it's really busy and there's a massive lineup of cars, it's commonplace to get in your car and move away from the bowser before paying, so as to leave space for the next guy.

Just an FYI, we don't recognize your silly made up aussie words. Is there something wrong with the words gas pump?

[2761377]

Just an FYI, we don't recognize your silly made up aussie words. Is there something wrong with the words gas pump?

here's something from a site called online etymology-

"Australian/New Zealand for "fuel oil pump," 1921, from S.F. Bowser & Co., Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S., founded by the inventor of the gasoline pump, whose product predominated Down Under. As a dog's name, attested from 1806, perhaps imitative of baying."

hardly a 'made up aussie word'

broaden your horizons.

hth
robert w.

[DatUtahGuy]

That's why OregAnO can suck my big brown bawls. That and the bullshit 65mph limit on every single goddamn freeway. It takes longer to drive across Oregon than the fucking Lewis and Clark expedition.

Every state that won't allow you to pump your own gas, should have strippers as pump attendants, and you should get a blowjob with every hot dog purchase as well.