Also, as other people have pointed out, at a gas station it is literally impossible to go any faster than the speed of the pump itself. There is nothing you can do to make that gas come out faster.
Sounds like our experience on the Maine Turnpike. A piece of cardboard flew up under my dad’s truck and got wedged near the muffler, quickly catching on fire. He pulled over on the shoulder as far as he could, got under the truck, and pulled out this burning chunk of cardboard. No one bothered to stop, but there were plenty of people blasting their horns at us.
I have THREE gas tanks, for a total capasity of 75 gallons. Piss me off and I’ll fill the third one, too!
I only fill one tank if there’s a line.
I’ll admit I raged on someone once. I’d been waiting in a 5 car line for one line of pumps for about 20 minutes when he scooted around from the other side, against the arrows. I bitched at him and the attendant. But that was a bad day in general.
Actually, you run it across the carpet and it goes.
I only go to the gas station to wash my windows.
E.
BEsides the self-important sub-population (I will not comment oas to what they tend to drive…I don’t know) there is also those people who are extremely impatient. It isn’t that they think they are so important, but for whatever reason they simply hav to be doing things fast fast fast, even if they truly don’t need to be anywhere in a hurry. They are the peole who pace nervously at the elevator and push the button a hundred times, they crawl at the stop light in anticipation of the green light, they are in and out of lanes trying desperately to find the secret passage home, and they are apparently the folks who would honk at someone at a gas station because they are not …pumping…fast…enough?
The only thing that pisses me off at gas stations are the idiots that can’t read the 10" sign about EXPRESS PAY ONLY pumps who try to use the pump without success. I mean, come on! There’s a fucking sign not 1 foot away from their face and people who use the express lane and then leave the vehicle parked there to buy something inside?!?
I never try to spend more than 4 minutes at the pump. I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to simply pump gas, pay and leave. Instead you get fuckers who park to talk on their cell phones or play games with their passengers.
Once again, my favourite link on this subject. 
When we’re driving in our Tercel, I swear we’re in “Stealth” mode, judging from how many times people act like they’re trying to drive into us. I figure a row of lights to outline the car oughta do it. And a semi-truck horn.
Jobs. The you cannot pump your own gas laws in OR are there beause it “creates jobs”.
Damn you, Booker57, coffee up the nose hurts!
Or you could finish filling your tank, then take the nozzle out and spray the front of their car with gas. I’ll gladly pay the extra buck it costs.
Let me ask: I think I have extremely good gas station etiquette. I always pull forward, I pay at the pump with a credit card to expedite things, I don’t screw around when people are waiting. But I am insistent on keeping all my receipts, and if the pump doesn’t print me out a receipt, I will leave my car parked at the pump and walk inside to get one. Occasionally, someone will honk or say something, and I usually just shrug or wave with a big smile. But I’m not a jerk for momentarily leaving my car to collect my receipt inside, am I?
Ah, the advantage of having two gas-tanks!
The fact that I drive a big ol’ (73) pickup tends to keep people from being terribly aggressive. I could just run their tincans over!
OK, if I’m supposed to stand by the nozzle, in case something goes wrong, when am I supposed to check my oil and clean my windows?
I usually do that while the tank is filling, only 26 gallons thank you very much!
Does anyone not clean their windows and check oil if there’s a line?
BBV Lou, I don’t think that’s necessarily poor etiquette. But I’m more likely to pull into a parking space to get my receipt.
If there is a line and people are waiting to gas up, you should at least pull forward and let the next guy to the pump while you check oil and wash windows. Assuming there is a place for you to park and do that stuff, of course. The rags and squeegees don’t vanish when you pull forward.
That’s true, but they are now about 50’ away!
Uncle Hulka with the big toe said it in Stripes.
“Lighten up, Francis.”
Not sure about DieHard (although I have seen it, I just don’t recall)
I would generally argue that doing other things outside while fueling is fine, as long as you’re considerate about it. You don’t want to get into the car while fueling for really two reasons–one, the risk of static electricity igniting vapors, and two, you don’t know if something goes wrong, like overflowing the gas tank. If you’re out and you see that all of a sudden gas is coming out of the car, you can run and shut it off. Otherwise, you’re going to put a lot of it on the ground.
True story: I was behind the counter at a gas station when a woman was fueling while inside her car. The cutoff didn’t kick in and probably two or three gallons of gas went on the ground before I noticed and hit the pump stop. Well, when she finally got out of her car, she wanted to argue that I owed her a refund for the gas that went on the ground. I was fairly polite and kept saying that I couldn’t do that. I refrained, of course, from calling her a complete idiot, though she richly deserved it.
Anyway, she demanded to know who my supervisor was. I told her. Then she wanted to know who the manager was. I told her. THEN she wanted to know who the boss was. I told her. I think she finally caught on when she asked who the owner was, as my supervisor, manager, and boss was also the owner of the store. I also told her that she was welcome to come back in the morning and talk with him about it. As far as I know, she never did. I gotta say, if I’m gonna be working a job like that, I want it to be an independent where the owner is the final word and there’s none of that corporate crap, because I know that if she did come back, he would’ve backed me up 100 percent.