Many years ago, I was dating a young woman from New Jersey. I went to meet her folks one Christmas. At the gas station in Cherry Hill, I jumped out and starting pumping gas one cold afternoon.
Attendant came out and asked what midwestern state I came from. Seems he could spot the out of towners pretty easily.
We lived in CA back in the '70s and when vacation time came, we decided to head up north, taking in the sights. All went well until we crossed the Oregon border and stopped to refuel. I had the nozzle out and pumping when this young guy comes boiling out of the station screaming "Its against the law! Its against the law!" and grabs the nozzle from my hand. There's a WTH moment and then he explains that the attendant has to pump the gas as a safety measure. I asked him if he thought drivers were so dumb they'd spray gas all over the ground. He just repeated "Its against the law!"
We shook our heads and moved on. We were in an RV and headed for one of their oceanside parks. Just before the kiosk, there's this sweet young thing waving us to stop. What now, as there's a guy in the kiosk. It turned out that because we were out of state, we had to pay an extra $2 entry. Another WTH moment, but it was too late in the day to go elsewhere. It wasn't the money, just the idea we had to pay extra.
I told her that CA was part of the Union, so why did we have to pay more? She said so many out-of-staters came up and used the park that we crowded out the locals, "who pay a high fee for an RV license". I asked her if she ever thought that the reason the locals could afford an RV was because us out-of-staters spent a lot of tourist money there. Shrugs.
In Washington I read where the Legislature was thinking of doing the same $2 extra bit. I wrote the governor, telling him I was writing the letter in one of their state parks instead of Oregon's because of their practice and that they were getting our tourist dollars instead because of that practice. Dunno if they ever went through with it, but from then on we went over to Utah and then up.