This happens a lot? Discharging static, I mean.
Static caused fires at gas stations are not that frequent, but when they happen... A gas jockey is grounded most of the time and is much better suited to pump gasoline. When a driver exits their ungrounded vehicle they carry varying amounts of static and an untimely discharge can be devastating. Women have the greatest chance of this happening to them. Try being from Oregon and vacationing through a number of states. We aren’t used to pumping our own gas and heaven forbid that we might have to check oil and clean our own windshields. Oregon is the only state that has preserved jobs and has spared the country the extinction of the service station attendant. Your attendants sit behind bullet-proof glass(?) and just take your money. On top of that, just how safe does one feel when one has to expose themself to an unknown public menace? At least in rural Oregon, you know that a small town station attendant is a local, and well known in his area. They can be trusted.