[Shotimes] Re: Shotimes digest, Vol 1 #5070 - 16 msgs

[monsieurboo@aol.com]

>> My rental car was an Oldsmobile Alero and had an "average"-sized gas tank.  That
"average"-sized gas tank seems giant when you have to pump your own gas
during a Wyoming snowstorm!  When I lived in Irving, TX (for 6 months incl
the summer) my rental car was a Nissan Xterra.  Filling that giant tank
during a sweltering 110-deg day sucked big time!!!
 
 
Yeah, now there's another issue.  Most of the stations here in DC (where you betcha you pay before pumping), the pump goes "tunk" when you still have 50 - 75c left to go.  It then takes equally as long to finish pumping those last "few" cents as it does to pump the whole rest of the load.
 
Now I know very well you can set those things to go "tunk" with 5c left to go, and they work just fine that way.  I figure they set it at half-a-buck-plus that so all the folks who are in a big hurry (just about everyone around here) will get so impatient they just replace the nozzle and take off.  Not me man, I tough it out in rain, sleet, snow, tornadoes and hurricanes to milk that last drop from the petroleum teat.
 
Cheers,
Mark LaBarre
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