...it must have been back in the 1970s, during the so-called fuel crisis, when we had to travel to New Joisey to visit relatives...stopped at a gas station and started to pump my own gas...we thought the attendant was either going to have a coronary or call the cops..... are the people of NJ too stoooopid to pump their own gas into their vehicles...?? amazing....
I can’t imagine having a new Lamborghini and letting some clod pump my gas
I live in NJ. My experience: women do NOT want self-serve gas. They will vote against it, given the option.
I lived in NJ for most of the 1990s. I almost always pumped by gas no matter what the attendent did or said.
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.