Crap.
Toast.
Mangled, mutant bruschetta.
I actually knew a mental patient who used to go door to door in the neighborhood where he lived, asking for change for a dollar bill at one house, and if they had it he’d ask for change for a dollar at the next, then rinse-lather-repeat.
Sorry for the hijack- for the OP, quit being a jerk.
What, and give up show business?
Not having Full Service stations where I am, do they not have the following in New Jersey ?
*Diesel vehicles
*Premium Unleaded ~$1.80/L
*Not so Premium Unleaded ~$1.75/L
*Plain Unleaded ~$1.65/L
*Ethanol Added Unleaded ~$1.65/L
*LPG Vehicles
If they have all of the above and you don’t ask for one specifically how do you know what you’re going to get or is it just assumed that you’re going to go for the cheapest option and you have to rely on the assistant to know you want ULP/Diesel/LPG*?
*LPG admittedly having a very distinct “filler cap”.
In general NJ has only Premium, *Middle *& Regular at the main pumps. Diesel is usually at a seperate pumping area and is often not available at all.
It wasn’t funny the first time, either. FYI.
All of which are apparently popular in Lurker’s section of [del]reality[/del] Jerz.
Weird, so I’m guessing that at a Full Service asking for the stereotypical “fill’er up” just gets you Regular then?
For us LPG is usually at a separate pumping station, but the others are normally on the same pump and I can’t remember the last time I saw a servo with no Diesel at all.
I say “fill it up regular” or they ask me if I want regular or premium. We don’t have LPG or Ethanol at any station I use.
Oh yeah, the market idiots. Actually it’s not just old people, or even most of them. It cuts into a much younger demographic as well.
This past Labor Day I was behind two women who were buying soda and expected a discount because of an advertised special. They were told they had to buy four 12-packs of soda to get one free, and not just two 12-packs. In a way I can’t blame them; it’s ridiculous to take out display ad space in a newspaper to tell people that if they are among the few who can actually use or store that much soda, then here’s something for them. Still: One of the women went back to shelves, none too quickly, to get two more 12-packs. Then when they saw what the price was they decided they didn’t want it after all. I think the whole process took about ten minutes.
This sort of thing usually seems to happen when I am waiting to pay for highly perishable food.
Did I mention this was an express line?
I think it gets you regular as the default, but I’m no longer Jersey-based (plus I don’t drive), so I’m not sure. I’m pretty sure that the only time you see diesel is along the major highways that get a lot of truck traffic. And up until now I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of LPG. Out of curiosity, are you outside of the US?
In the slice of Jersey I grew up in, calling a pizza place and ordering a medium plain will get you the a circle of pizza crust, tomato sauce spread on that, and cheese baked on top of it. My local place* will make you a pie pretty much however the hell you want it (and it’ll be tasty no matter what), but a plain pizza means bread, sauce, cheese.
And really, you can add a hell of a lot to that and it’ll rock, but if you start subtracting from it, you destroy the essential Pizzaness of it, and for that you should be publicly shamed.
*People’s Pizza, Route 38 in Cherry Hill. Go there and be awed, because it is the best pizza in the universe.
To be clear, we don’t have pure Ethanol ones either, it’s Unleaded with added Ethanol to make it cheaper. In theory this should be advertised at the pump to let people decide whether they want to use the Ethanol added petrol, in practice some of the smaller stations don’t always advise people of this (one place by me had something like 30 or 40% added Ethanol in it’s unleaded before being shut down).
Yeah I’m in Australia.
Most (all?) of our Taxis are LPG due to the fact that it’s about 1/3 - 1/2 the price of Petrol (Gasoline), until relatively recently it was an after market conversion which voided your warranty so only worth while if you were doing the miles of a Taxi Driver, but recently Ford and Holden (GM) started offering LPG as factory standard so I’m expecting to see more of them around soon.
Diesel engines are pretty common out here for Utes and SUV type vehicles. Rural vehicles are likely to be Diesel too, I’d assume it’s due to the relative ease of maintenance compared to a Petrol engine.
Also for most rural activities there has been a rebate on diesel fuel paid by the Federal Govt. Recently this has been introduced for petrol and other fuels.
possibly, I was quite upset and obviously not thinking clearly. :smack:
Ahh ok we’ve got 2 farms and didn’t know about it for either, might have to look into that.
Extra features as in sub-titles?.
Essential for us old codgers whose hearing and other bits are slowly but surely going down the pan.
lissener : You’ll be old one day, until then, fuck off
I don’t understand what’s wrong with giving exact change, to be honest. Who the fuck wants a wallet full of shrapnel?
First sign of aging.
Next you’ll yell and wave your cane at children but forget what you were yelling about mid-rant, Westrogothia.
“Get off my…uh…wait a minute. Not lawn, I used to have a lawn but I sold my house and let me tell you, I lost a bundle on that, robbers would have left me more, they should be ashamed of themselves but NO, nobody has manners anymore, the world’s gone to hell, straight to hell. Maybe the bus. No, not bus, get off my…uh…”