# Strange But True...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true/10667>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 4, 1999, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true/10667 "1999-11-04T19:01:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![putrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@putrid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/putrid)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true/10667/21 "1999-11-07T21:02:00Z")

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Guam is part of the U.S. I would rather hope that it would be impossible to pass a law like that or that it would be upheld for long in any case.

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**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true/10667/22 "1999-11-07T23:14:00Z")

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I was just a teenager when I worked in my dad’s gas station, and a lot of people seemed to think that girl + teen = too incompetent to pump gas, so I had the nozzle swiped from my frail hands a few times. Especially by bikers who were afraid I’d drip gasoline on their babies. And of course this would piss off my dad to no end. If I drizzled gasoline down the side of the tank and on to the hot engine and blew the place sky high, insurance would cover it. But, since self-serve is illegal here, if the customer drizzled gas on his engine and blew the station to Kingdom Come, we’d be screwed six ways to Sunday.

I sure hope we never go to self-serve. I’ve pumped more than enough gas for this lifetime.

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**Author:** ![Homer\_Green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19adc/32.png) [@Homer\_Green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_Green)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-true/10667/23 "1999-11-08T00:08:00Z")

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i agree with the crackwhore. i’m new here as well and saw this for the first time. it was interesting and good for a laugh. now to find out what’s true and what’s not…

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