Yeah, that is the law, but I see lots of stations that charge in the Bar Area, too.
Fucking Capitalist pig-dogs!!!
I bet more often you’re one of the people and not the guy with the pennies.
No, you’re wrong.
The air is still free…it’s the mechanism for delivering it into the tire that costs money.
And thank you Quik Trip for, in addition to the 1,000 other things that make you awesome, free air.
Just take that money you use to tip the ticket ripper guy at the movies and use it to buy air.
Yes, he’s a totally awesome poster who was even more entertaining before a bunch of uptight losers got their panties in a wad about how he wasn’t actually talking about “his friend” who wanted to know something ludicrous, and then those tightasses browbeat him into dropping that hilarious gag.
Who are you again?
Nonsense! Who in their right mind would pay for bottled water?
Someone provides a service that I find to be of value, and they expect compensation for providing that service! Waah!
I work on a military base and the NEX gas station has free air.
Well, I suppose it’s actually taxpayer-paid air. So, thanks for the air, everyone.
Typical Socialist bullshit. Providing services for free and denying American Job Creators the right to make a profit off of it.
But he doesn’t want to buy a compressor, he wants someone else to buy it for him and then let him use it for free.
Alternatively…There’s free air all around you. It’s up to you to figure out how to get it into your tires.
i’ve never seen anyone charge for it in Australia… even with newer fancy systems where you have to press buttons to select the pressure. You’d think giving away air would be an incentive to bring people in.
My pet hate with those things is when i’d roll up on my bike wanting to give it half a squirt and someone clueless would barge in before me and make a hash of trying to fill up all their tyres.
You have literally never said this in your entire life.
On the flip side, I stopped at a Mobil station in Winnetka, went inside and told them flat-out I hadn’t bought gas but my front left tire was at 19 psi, and could I please use the compressor. I held out a dollar bill and the guy looked at me like I had three heads, refused the money, flipped a switch on his desk, and told me to come tell him when I was done. The compressor said $1 on it but there didn’t actually appear to be a functioning way to insert money.
:D:D
They can charge if you don’t buy gas. A lot of people are confused about that aspect of the law.
And they’ll catch you if you speed away without paying, because you’ll run out of gas.
It costs a dollar most places I buy gas, but a sign on the machine says the money goes to charity. If that’s really so then I don’t mind so much.
Yeah. I found myself doing the despairing scramble, trying to get to all four tires before the bloody thing ran out… and then I bought one of these.
It is one of my all time favorite hardware purchases. Bikes, cars, kiddie pools, balls… it does it all and I don’t have to use the manual pump like a 99-percenter from the 20th century. Totally paid for itself within a few months!
That water is free, it’s just the bottle you’re paying for!
True, and the gas station I worked at in college there was no way for us to “just turn the machine on” (short of just taking money out of the register & giving it away*) no matter how much people whined, complained, or threatened. Nor could anyone actually working there (including the SM) really do anything about the myriad of petty policies anyone complained about. My canned response was just to offer the corporate customer service line; which I had memorized.
*Which of course would’ve gotten anybody who did it fired. Hell we couldn’t even open the register to give out change unless a cash purchase was being made. I hated that job, and to this day I won’t even shop at that chain.