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- From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: Self-serve gas stations
- Message-ID: <l9km6sr@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 22:31:06 GMT
- Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God
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- In article <8jkm2vp@lynx.unm.edu> hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul24.192834.23276@spool.cs.wisc.edu> slv@camembert.cs.wisc.edu (Scott L. Vandenberg) writes:
- >>PEEVE 1: "You're all criminals, so pay before pumping the gas".
- >
- >What really yanks my crank is when places don't have some sort of sign
- >indicating whether one is supposed to pay first, pump first, or make
- >a secret sign to the Gasoline Goddess before they'll let you get the
- >stuff into your car.
- >
- >That's right up there with the places that have a special window to go
- >up to, only when you do, there's a small sign saying to go inside the
- >store. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
-
- Sounds like Dan is describing a gas station that is over by his house
- that I usually use because is it conveniently located. There are no signs
- telling you whether or not you are supposed to pay first. Last year, you
- sometimes had to and other times didn't. There was seemingly no rhyme or
- reason to when you had to pay first. On a few occasions, I filled up my truck
- at 2 or 3 in the morning and didn't have to pay first, but they would sometimes
- make you pay first at 1 or 2 in the afternoon. They seems to have decided that
- the paying first thing is the way to go, but it was very confusing for a while.
- This same gas station has a little window that you used to be able to pay at
- without going inside, but there is, last time I was there, a pile of fire wood
- in front of it. Now you must go inside to pay them.
-
- >GiantEconomy-SizedPeeve: People who just stand there while you do
- >all the work at the gas station. Sure, doing a good job washing the
- >windscreen may be difficult if you're short, but that's no excuse
- >for not checking the oil and the tire pressure.
- Peeve: Last week some bum^H^H^HHomelessEconomicallyOppressedPerson snuck up
- to my truck while I was inside paying and filled up all of the tires with
- air. They needed it, but that is beside the point. After filling them up,
- to the proper pressure I might add, he then demanded that I pay him for the
- service. When I told him to get lost, he proceeded to tell me a heart
- wrenching tale of how his dog was in the pound and he only needed a few
- bucks to get him out. After again telling him to get lost, he tryed another
- tack about how he had not eaten in weeks, because he was trying to save up
- enough money to get the dog out of the pound. Fortunately, at about that
- time, I had finished filling up the truck and I left. A very peevesome
- trip to the gas station. I think that this guy was a plant, because except
- for him, the trip to the gas station was completely peeve-free. There was
- no line to wait in and the salesperson got everything right.
-
- --
- Chris Baldwin |"1984 has past. Forget about Big Brother.Welcome
- baldwin@carina.unm.edu |to the '90s, where the givernments your mother."
- | --Scatterbrain
- "I say that What the Country Needs is a Drieux In Every Pot!"
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