I guess it helps the state's 'employment' figures.
Our small town had a so called 'no name' full service station and garage up until this past Fall. It was bought out and now we have a self serve and a small convenience store instead. This put quite a few students, who had part time jobs, out of work.
Peter
Yea, Jersey is always crazy to travel through and get gas. I guess it employs people, but geez. I remember when I was a kid and full service was everywhere it was pretty cool for my mom to not have to get me out of the car and hump it inside to pay for the gas and pump the gas, etc.
Now it just seems silly that the attendant's order of operations is:
- Take credit card
- Walk to pump, swipe card, select grade (make sure to act like your launching a rocket from mission control)
- Put pump handle in car and select grade. Squeeze trigger and put lock on handle (walk to a bunch of other cars so when your car is full you are stuck there because you can't hang the handle back up and ruin their right to work and they are nowhere to be found)
- Walk back to window, give card back
- Hang up pump, wait for receipt, give you receipt.
- If you don't have a capless tank, put on gas cap (crank down the gas cap like you are screwing the lid on a nuclear waste barrel. Don't they understand after the first click you are not tightening it anymore?)
It is especially weird when your getting out of the car anyway to rummage through the back, use the bathroom, get a soda and are standing there right next to they guy.
