Transient wrote:Same here. I can tell if it's going to take 30, 35 or 40 bucks to fill my tank when I pull up. I exchange a maximum of 5 words with the cashier and am out the door in under half a minute. I don't find it all that bothersome.
Tormentius wrote:As of this year all of BC is pre-pay 24/7. Some gas station employee jumped in front of a car that was driving away without paying and then got dragged to his death so people were outraged, media was involved, and now we have this law province-wide. I feel for the guy's family but ffs who jumps in front of a moving car trying to stop someone for $12 of stolen gas?!
Yeah, I noticed that when I visited LA/Vegas. I was walking around the pump trying to find out why it wouldn't work until I read the instructions. That just seems so backwards but I can understand why they do it if a bunch of cunts have driven off without paying. I don't that happens here.
tnf wrote:last time I drove through Oregon it was all full service - you couldn't pump your own gas. Anyone know if its still that way?
Yes. It is. I think it's that way, though, because you don't want stoned people near the gas release system.
Also, I've not seen a place (yet) that disabled the pay-at-the-pump thing. I don't ever have to try to understand farsi to get gas.
[color=#00FF00][b]"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.[/b][/color]
I've never been to place that wasn't pump now, pay later... (live in Canada, not BC) Probably a new thing because of prices, and I suspect it will become more and more common in the future.
tnf wrote:Isn't that what his first complaint was about? When I first got my license 16 years ago I'd fill up all the time then go in and pay afterwards.
which is what happens in the UK. anyone who drives off without paying simply has their plates snagged on the forecourt CCTV
Prepay has recently become prevalent in my hometown. Pisses me off. I get it, though, too easy to drive off with your gas.
However, I've also stopped walking into the gas station and buying cigs/soda/junkfood... If I have to pay for the gas seperately and upfront, I'm not making another purchase after, so I'm not sure who's actually coming out ahead.
We have it nice and easy here in dutcholand, at least where I am. You can just use your card in advance and it will automatically withdraw from your account what you filled up for and hand you the receipt for the socially inept or nightly fillers, or you just fill up and pay inside later which is what most people do.
Transient wrote:Same here. I can tell if it's going to take 30, 35 or 40 bucks to fill my tank when I pull up. I exchange a maximum of 5 words with the cashier and am out the door in under half a minute. I don't find it all that bothersome.
tnf wrote:Isn't that what his first complaint was about? When I first got my license 16 years ago I'd fill up all the time then go in and pay afterwards.
which is what happens in the UK. anyone who drives off without paying simply has their plates snagged on the forecourt CCTV
Transient wrote:Same here. I can tell if it's going to take 30, 35 or 40 bucks to fill my tank when I pull up. I exchange a maximum of 5 words with the cashier and am out the door in under half a minute. I don't find it all that bothersome.
tnf wrote:last time I drove through Oregon it was all full service - you couldn't pump your own gas. Anyone know if its still that way?
yes, and it can be annoying as fuck sometimes when you have to wait 10 minutes for a fucktard attendant to pump the gas. it's actually illegal to pump our own gas here
Just spent 53.94 filling up the WRX. My wife doesn't want me to have a motorcycle as a means of transportation for the stop and go to work and back driving I do that eats up most of the gas. I've had 4 bad concussions in my life and she's afraid any further head injuries will leave me eating from a straw while pointing and laughing at shiny objects for the rest of my life. I've tried to explain to her the virtues of helmets but she won't budge and I decided not to press it if its going to worry her that much. Maybe these gas prices will convince her the cost vs. risk benefit makes it worth it.
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:when i had my M3 in OR i got out and watched. some guys are careful, some are just inbreds and don't give a fuck unless it's a poser 4x4 truck.
in-fucking-deed...
a buddy can pull up with a Focus ( fuckis ), or somthing that tards can easly identify what it is.. they will be more carefull with it then when i pull up with my Corrado, they think "ohh, this is some Jetta or somthing.. wait, its a hatch.. it has to be a golf." etc.
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tnf wrote:Just spent 53.94 filling up the WRX. My wife doesn't want me to have a motorcycle as a means of transportation for the stop and go to work and back driving I do that eats up most of the gas. I've had 4 bad concussions in my life and she's afraid any further head injuries will leave me eating from a straw while pointing and laughing at shiny objects for the rest of my life. I've tried to explain to her the virtues of helmets but she won't budge and I decided not to press it if its going to worry her that much. Maybe these gas prices will convince her the cost vs. risk benefit makes it worth it.
[color=#00FF00][b]"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.[/b][/color]
