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As will be your little scraps of paper and slugs of metal.
What does time management have to do with it? I swipe my card and I’m done. What’s frustrating is the guy who waits until he sees the total on the register, proudly declares “Oh, I have exact change!” and starts laboriously counting out 65 cents in nickels.
Get a rewards card, and pay it off every month, and all your spending is actually a short-term loan for which they pay you 1% to take out.
And you don’t have to spend your time arguing with gas station attendants about their rounding practices.
If you aren’t disciplined enough to spend only what you can pay off each month, that’s your problem. You can always get a debit card instead if you really can’t handle it.
“Any dog under fifty pounds is a cat, and cats are useless.” – Ron Swanson.
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I just drove thru Oregon and had no trouble with the attendants (maybe because I stop at truck stops?) but damn! I had forgotten how bad the driving is there.
Since gas stations actively encourage the use of cash by offering a lower cash price, I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s fine to use cash and any attendants will just have to get over it.
Well, Oregon driving isn’t bad… it’s just a bizarre combination of entitled, passive, and passive-aggressive.
…yyyyeah. It’s fucking awful. I can’t justify it.
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But please tell us that the word “be” will be reinstated.
I once heard it described as Southern California driving with all the aggression but none of the skill. About sums it up for me. Not as bad as drivers in Idaho, though.
And in Idaho, you can pump your own damn gas if you want to.
I don’t know if you live in NJ or OR, but I live in Arizona, one of the 48 where you can pump your own gas, and it’s not usually a matter of choice. Most gas pumps are at convenience stores or supermarkets and there are no attendants at hand to service the pumps, just cashiers. Full-service stations are usually few and far between.
I’m used to pumping my own gas, though, and wouldn’t dream of going out of my way to find a station with an attendant. The OP is right. It ain’t rocket surgery. It’s one of those tasks you need to do that becomes second nature after a while.
This is why you get out of your car and go inside the Wawa to get coffee or a delicious sub or maybe some other snack. What? You don’t have Wawas where you are? Too bad, you’re missing out.
And yet, most Wawa gas stations are 24 hours. (Yes Wawa is awesome. No I don’t work for Wawa)
Legislature and “It’s a jobs program” is what that was about. Didn’t want to take jobs from anyone when the economy was starting to fall apart.
And to boot, NJ has the lowest gas prices of any state attached to it (NJ, DE, PA).
It will optional. No one will say anything if it gets accidentally.
Buying gas:
Cash Method- Hand the cashier a twenty, calling “Pump 2, please!” as you leave.
Credit Card Method- Hand the cashier your card. Say “Twenty on pump 2, please.” Wait for the cashier to swipe your card. Enter your PIN. Wait for the transaction to go through. Clerk says “Sorry, the machine’s been really slow today. Okay, it’s dialing now.” Wait for the store copy of the receipt to print. Wait for your copy of the receipt to print. Customers behind you are tapping their feet impatiently, muttering “Why doesn’t this asshole pay in cash??”
Why did the discussion go immediately to credit cards anyway? Who doesn’t have a bank account without a debit card that can be used in the same way? I don’t have a credit card but I manage to survive without ever having cash on me. (I was ahead of the curve … I was using a debit card to pay for sub-$1 snacks in the local mall CVS in 1999. I’ve pretty much never carried cash my entire adult life.)
I’ve only filled up in New Jersey once (a rental, not far from Newark airport), and had to wait in the only gas line I’ve had to wait in since I was a kid in 1979. It seemed that there were like 4 pumps and 2 clowns actually running the pumps, and 100 people waiting.
Self-service may be a bit more of a pain in some ways, but in others it’s a godsend.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but I can’t remember the last time I didn’t just swipe my card at the pump and begin fueling. Takes maybe 5 seconds. No need to go inside.
Is it still 1985 where you live? Here in 2016, it is much simpler.
Credit Card Method: swipe your card at the pump, enter your PIN or zip code, pump however much gas you want, drive away. No need to even step away from your car.
It’s extremely dangerous filling a car up with gasoline, that gas cap gets fucking hot sitting on top of the radiator like that … blame the car makers for putting the fool thing in such a terrible place to begin with … them dorkwads.
Y’all act like Oregonians would fill a whale carcass with dynamite or something …
If you do that, they put a $100 hold on your card which could cause you to overdraw your account.
More like $1, not $100.
Wow THATS an obscure reference…
And a video I still use to teach rookies.