Oregonians Freaking Out About Having To Pump Their Own Gas
KC138045
Columbus, OH Posts: 2,716
I can't believe that there are people who do not know how to pump their own gas. Here is one story on the new law but there are a lot out there.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oregon-gas-pump-law-reaction-social-media-outrage-12469097.php
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oregon-gas-pump-law-reaction-social-media-outrage-12469097.php
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Some of the comments are genuinely people being dumb, but I wonder if some are tongue in cheek.
Edit: I also hate news stories that use social media as legit reactions.
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I am happy to have someone else do it, but it always seems like I have to wait and that pisses me off.
Because I'm American.
I'm busy.
I dont wait for shit.
Impatient bastard!
I'm sure most people will adjust quickly but the thought that even a few are freaking our about it is a bit sad and pathetic. What if you need to : Tie a bowline. Start a fire with just natural foliage and a match. Build a shelter. Tie a tourniquet. Treat for shock. Identify an edible wild plant. Oh, you can't pump your own gas? Oh my! Such a weak and vulnerable species we've become.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
we will find a way, we will find our place
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
-EV 8/14/93
(full-service is also particularly handy for seniors and disabled people)
Still, that something so simple and basic as filling your tank freaks some out is beyond me.
devil's advocate.
FYI - I have never filled in Taiwan either. Not sure if law or if all stations are just full service.
to the google machine....
Truth be told, I wouldn't mind full-service if the cost remained the same.
I just read an article about youth employment in Winnipeg, and of course it's a "crisis" because so many kids are unemployed. But you speak to any business owner who employs lower-skilled jobs, it's a nightmare to fill those positions because youth of today simply don't want to work for what they deem "inadequate pay and benefits" (or they are staying in school and living with their parents much longer than previous generations). Fuck me. I worked for years for nearly minimum wage and zero benefits. Was I stupid? No. I had work ethic, and as a young person, I simply didn't require the benefits people are screaming about today. the businesses I worked for simply would not have survived if they had to pay out "living wages" and benefits to their zero-skilled workers. I lived on my own on $6 an hour with my girlfriend who also made minimum wage and tips. No sick days. No holidays. NOTHING. But youth today are expecting all this shit for working at Tim Horton's/Starbucks with zero skills and education. My wife says her experience in trying to hire low-skilled people in today's day is a fucking nightmare with how entitled these people are.
I understand that it is important to lift up certain sectors of society so they can live off their earnings, even if they are minimal. I'd like to poll many of these people, however, who are crying for a living wage and ask them what their cell phone bill is every month. I'm not trying to sound like an old man here, but seriously, many youth of today simply do not have their priorities straight when it comes to this stuff.
do we really want to pay people enough money in these no-skill jobs so they STAY in those jobs and don't make room for the youth coming up in the next generation? Those jobs are meant for young people, not poor adults that want to live semi-comfortably on those wages. What is the motivation to better yourself if there's no reason to?
This $15 minimum wage thing seems a bit crazy to me. When I got hired where I work now, I made less than that (10 years ago). At an OFFICE JOB that required some level of experience and/or education.
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another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not being able to pump your own gas could be the premise of a Twilight Zone episode.
Less than 3,000 miles a year, baby! Hopefully this car is the last one I'll have - she's a beaut.
are there too many people hosing others down at the pump and lighting them on fire? just bizarre.
-EV 8/14/93
Gas with a little static electricity could.
Bold/italics made me think of this story:
My cousins friend Chris was a frail thing of a man about 15 years older than me. He lived out in LA area around 1990. He was in Hawthorne or some shitty area like that and a guy wanted to pump his gas. He said "no thanks" and went in to pay. People will do this to get a dollar off you at the gas stations.
When Chris comes out the guy insisted that he pump his gas, again he says "no".
The guy was damn sure hell going to pump Chris' gas and kind of moved him aside while going for the pump handle.
Chris swung around with the pump handle and soaked the guy from head to toe with gas, pulled out a cigarette and lit it and said to the guy "now you can pump my fucking gas!"
Dude high tailed it out of there.
We are rather strange, aren't we!
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"