Hal, you need to learn to vibrate your pupils. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, find someone who can do it and have them show you. It’s extremely disconcerting. I know, because I can do it, and I’ve done it to people who are rattling on in a one sided conversation. That conversation gets over and done with real quick. Seems to freak people out.
Pahaha, I can do the pupil-vibrating thing too, it scares many people.
Good.
Did it ever occur to you that these two points may be connected somehow?
They’re jerking off into your fuel tank. Just don’t ask them to top up the wipers.
I was in Oregon a few weeks ago, I was threatened with a $250 fine for pumping my own gas. All I did was get out to unlock the gas cap, I won’t give them my keys. And virtually every gas station I have seen has signs warning of penalties for pumping one’s own gas.
I was with you until
I’d be willing to hear about it for a while. Or better, drive it for a while. Is it an M3?
That’s odd. If I so much as get out of my car, someone is right there to pump my gas – and sometimes warn me that I’m not allowed to.
I think Oregon will let you pump your own gas in some cases. For example, I think that motorcyclists might be able to. If the pump jockey doesn’t know motorcycles, you may end up with only half a tank. Also, I think there may be a provision for driver’s of antique or very expensive or unique cars to pump their own fuel, due to the possibility that the station owner can be out a lot of money if they accidentally scratch the paint, spill fuel, etc.
To expand on my last: Many nozzles are fitted with anti-vapour boots that muct be engaged before the pump will work. On a motorcycle you need to hold the nozzle at the top of the tank and hold the boot up with your other hand. Using the nozzle in the normal way will put it too far into the tank. My ex-g/f had a friend who bought a new bike (in California) and complained that he was always running out of gas. She had to tell him how to fill the tank.
The MGB has a very low filler tube that is mounted below the boot lid. I remember when the anti-pollution boots came out, I had to hold the nozzle upside-down to make it work. When I drive my car through Oregon, you can be sure I’ll try to fill it myself. Being 26 years out of production (and 40 years old, in the case of my car), over two-and-a-half years (by the time it’s done) in restoration, and $9,000 worth of bodywork and paint alone, I don’t want anyone fucking with it.
Cool! How do you do that? I knew someone who could do that, but she couldn’t explain how. Is it a trick?
I bet if Nick were in the Pit, he chalk up football as nothing but a bunch of monkeys humping a football, and that it’s really a waste of time. Just as you think his fascination with cars is.
So you break even. 
You know, we were having a problem with body parts showing up in the local creeks a few months ago…
Yikes.