The whole concept of ME pumping my own gas or doing my own checkout and bagging makes me angry. I want service. We are supposed to be in a “service economy,” but that seems to mean you get less and less service every year. Just try to get a human service agent on the phone.
Sure miss the old days when the gas station attendants flocked to your vehicle to check everything out and the grocery store took your groceries to your car and loaded the bags for you.
Bah! Humbug!
I’m with you, especially on the gas station issue. Great job for teenagers and I really appreciated having someone check the air in my tires, the oil level, add fluids when necessary, wash my front window and pump the gas for me.
Grocery stores used to automatically carry your groceries out for you, now if you want a carry-out at my local Kroger’s, they usually have to find someone. Seems like that went the way of the paper grocery bag.
Bah Humbug is right!
I liked not having to get out of the car and not smelling like gas the rest of the day, dribbling dirty windshield water down my nice clothes and having ick all over my hands. The older I get, the more I appreciate someone else bagging my groceries and taking them to the car. And it is impossible to speak to a human on the phone these days.
Mayberry is dead. My bank has all new tellers. It used to be nice to go through the window and have them greet my by name and ask how the kids were doing. Those days are gone. The other day, one had the nerve to demand to see my ID. Yeah, yeah, I know but that was the last straw. I informed her I’d been banking there longer than she’s been alive and she’d darn well better remember me next time.
#38 You mean like here at about 30 seconds in? : )
Back to the Future gas station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY2w2-CAKgM