# Eat my ass, I was here first and you didn't ask nicely **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757 "2009-11-08T02:55:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757/101 "2009-11-09T22:09:41Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I agree that it’s simply common sense to pull all the way up to the furthest pump, but how does the horn honking ass know that the other pump wasn’t in use when the OP arrived? Of course he doesn’t. But the fact that the second guy may have been a jerk, doesn’t change the fact that in this instance for no apparent reason the OP declined to go with what most of us apparently consider common courtesy. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757/102 "2009-11-10T00:32:40Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Sure, no solution is perfect, as gas cap locations are not standard… Why is that? 😕 I mean automakers have come an agreement on standardizing most other car controls. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757/103 "2009-11-10T03:55:43Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I agree that it’s simply common sense to pull all the way up to the furthest pump, but how does the horn honking ass know that the other pump wasn’t in use when the OP arrived? Well, according to the OP: > [@](#): > > I was pulling up to the closest gas pump today so it looks like the OP was just stopping at the closest pump when the second guy came up. ---
**Author:** ![Trollhaugen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Trollhaugen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trollhaugen)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757/104 "2009-11-10T05:15:50Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > I have to think that gas stations where some of you live are completely different then where I live…or something. > > Typical gas station here has ‘one way’ signs. You pull in (and all the way through). If your gas cap is on the drivers’ side, you pull up to the pumps on that side. If it’s on the passenger side, you pull up to the same row, but on the opposite side. Our gas pumps have nozzles on both sides of them, so depending on the location of your fuel door, you can still pull through in the right direction without any issues. > > Do your pumps only allow you to pump from one side? Ok, so my description was not full and needed to include the gas station I usually use. There is no “one way sign” so it is really a free for all with cars entering from each of the two entrances. Pulling forward could lead to pissing someone off coming into the other entrance and staying at the first pump could also piss someone off. But, thinking more about it (and really, that is all I did today) this is a small gas station at a fairly busy intersection so it is always a clusterfuck. At a typical suburban station, that is larger, it would probably make it easier for everyone if the standard was to pull through. That still does not take away from the fact that honk the horn person was an ass. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757/105 "2009-11-10T05:32:52Z")
Now I am glad I have a lot of gas stations like this one to go to: [http://www.miami-real-estate-agent.com/images/listing\_photos/104\_gas%20stations.doc%20-ronit.jpg](http://www.miami-real-estate-agent.com/images/listing_photos/104_gas%20stations.doc%20-ronit.jpg) Avoids all this crap. Except when it’s crowded and people are dicks when it comes to queueing up to wait for pumps. I usually park in a space then and wait until it clears out, cause people will inevitably cut you off if you decide to circle to get a pump, or if you try to be good and wait the person you are waiting behind takes for fucking ever and in the meantime other pumps open, you back out then someone cuts you off again. Then you commit homicide or suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757/106 "2009-11-20T14:30:40Z")
“They” really should standardize gas cap placement (driver or passenger) and then make all gas stations have one-way signs in the parking lots so people can just queue and be done. **myskepticsight** ’s example of a station with no two pumps in a row is also a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757/107 "2009-11-20T15:23:49Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Because it’s the rule! It’s the proper etiquette, of course, but it’s also the rule, like turning off your engine and prepaying after dark! There are signs! Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the siiign, yeah! What sign? who pays attention to the placards that are pasted all over every available service station surface? Ciggies, car warsh, air, wipes, wood, fluids, tabs, lotto, PBR, salt, coke, red hots, jerky, milk, gas, beer and now Pull forward? when Im done pumping ma’am. Sometimes I don’t want to get wet and that is where I’ll be if i pull forward to the last pump, in the rain. I don’t litter, I wear my seatbelt, signal my intentions, mostly drive the speed limit. But if I have a pump preference, then damn the rules! :o ---
**Author:** ![pabstist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@pabstist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pabstist)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757/108 "2009-11-21T23:21:14Z")
Yesterday at the gas station where I got honked at, I read all the signs on the pump. NOWHERE does it say to pull up to the furthest pump. So I guess it’s not a rule at some places and I can pump wherever I want then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-my-ass-i-was-here-first-and-you-didnt-ask-nicely/516757.md?page=5)