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

[Ron Porter]

I don't see it as a "toughing it out" issue. I can fill my own car as full
as I want, not spill gas on my car, nor nick the paint with the pump or the
cap. All stations that I go to are under cover. Yes, it's cold out
now.....deal with it!! I can also clean my windows if I choose, as well as
the headlights & taillights. Al of the stations that I visit have
pay-at-the-pump.

IIRC, you are "supposed" to shut off your vehicle when the tank is being
filled, so technically you don't gain much in the cold or heat if someone
else is filling it.

I worked in a gas station in college and did all the usual stuff (gas, was
windows, oil check, etc. paid a lot of college bills. Once we went to
self-service, though, IMHO it's a better way, I don't want other folks doing
it for me.

Ron Porter

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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:11 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: Shotimes digest, Vol 1 #5070 - 16 msgs

>> 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
94 atx 135k
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