bowiecadmium: parentheticalaside: mellenabrave:aphonicgod:gehayi:ladyoftheteaandblood:antyc6
bowiecadmium: parentheticalaside: mellenabrave: aphonicgod: gehayi: ladyoftheteaandblood: antyc67: earlgreytea68: faedreamer: thevoluntaryist: volcel-official: trenchcoats-anonymous: I can smell the entitlement in the air Oregon was a mistake Oregon, what you doin??? I think I am most bewildered by how many people seem to think that you spend the rest of the day reeking of gas fumes if you touch a gas pump. Do they think you pour the gas all over yourself…? Why are these gas fumes clinging to you through your day such that you will not be fit to be around other humans…? I didn’t even know there were places left that let you pump your own gas. @antyc67 in Britain we pump our own. I didn’t know there were any stations left where people don’t pump their own gas. Every gas station I’ve ever seen has been self-service since the 1970s. I’ve lived in Central Michigan my entire life and i have never heard of people just….not pumping their gas……i’m so fucking confused. Oregon: You expect us to pump our own gas like peasants? :/ The entire rest of the world: This seems like a ridiculous thing to get upset about because the law is for rural areas and says they CAN offer self-service. Just keep going to a full service station and your weird fears will be avoided. It’s not full service versus self. We just don’t pump our own gas in Oregon, instead gas station employees do (a valuable job for a lot of people with $10/hr minimum wage). Oregon is not a populous state and outside of the I-5 corridor, most gas stations close at night. I live in the 2nd most populous city (160,000 people!) and only a handful of stations are open 24 hours in my town and all of them are off an I-5 exit. Yes, that’s right. Gas stations close at night. I have had to plan my trips around when and where to get gas when I drive at night. The law states that in rural counties, which for us is 40,000 people or less in the ENTIRE county you can pump your own gas at night. Why? Because in some of these places there are no gas stations open at night. None. Hundreds of miles and no gas for more than 12 hours. Sure, the locals know and generally plan around it at night, but we’re talking areas with “population centers” of 8,000 people that serve 10,000 square miles. And if you’re out there and an emergency happens in the middle of the night? Hope you don’t have far to drive or you have enough gas to get you there. So yeah, people are being morons. And because we don’t pump our own gas it’s intimidating. I bitch every time I go to California and have to get out of the car. I’ve gotten used to it and I like the efficiency of it. But the law changed out of economic necessity and that’s a good thing. Rural access to services is a problem - and not having the ability to get gas in the middle of the night can have a huge snowball effect for people when something they didn’t plan for happens. Most people here get that. I didn’t think about how gas stations that are paying attendants to pump gas would likely close at night. I was blinded by my self-service life. Here’s a question I’ve had every time I’ve ended up in a full-service state: Do residents carry cash more often to tip easily? Like, has physical cash remained more popular in such places, I mean. If people in Arizona were suddenly presented with the idea that they’d have to use full service, their internet complaints would be about having to carry cash and getting robbed for their $3 by all these transients that apparently stalk gas stations. -- source link