Posted on 03/02/2022 7:55:34 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
I can’t imagine having a new Lamborghini and pumping my own gas, unless from my own supply tank, at home.
To be completely honest, I can’t imagine having a new Lamborghini. (Hells bells, I can’t even spell it)
Off topic, but, why does only New York use “up state”? Where does that come from and why don’t other states use the term. In California we just say, “I’m from Northern California.”, to show that we’re not liberal douchebags. (But there are loads of pockets of hippie enclaves and weirdos all over the north in California too.) in general, stereotypically, we’re considered good if we live in Placer County and above. At least that’s my impression.
See post 57
how to put a card in the Pump…..
NJ law pre-dates card use, 1949, was cash only for a long while
There’s no California, California that’s why.
women do NOT want self-serve gas
That’s why some have husbands 😁
I lived in NJ for most of the 1990s. I almost always pumped by gas no matter what the attendent did or said.
We’ve been pumping our own gas for thirty or forty years. Many/most gas stations aren’t full-service anymore; if you need work, you take your car to Midas or Bucky’s or some other specialty shop, or do it yourself if that’s your thing.
I heard it was a jobs program for high school drops and third world immigrants.
It’s just an area in NYS...and excludes NYC. It’s a regional thing.
Ditto.
Minnesota uses ‘outstate’ to refer to outside of metro Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Upstate is used to refer to northern Minnesota, but much less than outstate.
Because only New York City is the important part. And anyone living in NYC will tell you that, to your face.
Voice over speaker, “Sir get back in your vehicle”, I am looking around, like what’s happening, lol. Yeah, illegal to pump gas . I wonder if they ever leave the gas cap off ?
Hallelujah!
I was born and raised in Rochester but live in a suburb now. We always had the confusion in Rochester of Uptown and Downtown which I simply ignored...cuz you might say say you were going Uptown on a bus. I could have been going downtown for all I knew. LOL
True. My wife went to college in Pennsylvania so she definitely knew how to pump her own gas. She also was a working attorney who competently managed her own technology devices for work and home. Yet I feel like the day we got married within her brain she selected all knowledge associated with technology and pumping gas and hit the delete key. Even basic things like CTL-C to copy, she refuses to retain the info I keep showing her. She's just like "that's your job now, you'll show me again if I need it".
In the early 90s I stopped in to a NJ gas station with my 1981 Celica.
I knew not to DARE get out of my vehicle. Gasoline is too dangerous to be handled by a mere mortal. The highly trained and certified operators of the pumps are much, much smarter than I am.
My Celica had a sticker inside the gas lid. It said “unleaded fuel only”. I’m sure many here remember these stickers. My wife has never heard of one.
To be cute I removed the “un” from the sticker reducing it to “leaded fuel only”.
The pump attendant refused to dispense fuel.
I’m not guessing that you are a jerk, I can tell from your post.
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