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Re: OT: Cross Border Shopping, Deals and not so good deals.

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From: Greg Carr
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:06
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I was once hit by a car at a gas station. The woman backed over me. It is 
common for ppl to drive away and forget to put the cap back on.

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"sharx35" <sharx35@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Richard Bonner" <ak621@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message 
> news:feqi8h$kja$5@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca...
>> sharx35 (sharx35@hotmail.com) wrote:
>> : > As for dragging the hose it can leave a rubber streak on the paint
>> : > job of the vehicle and in my  experience it increases the chance of
>> : > spilling gasoline on the vehicle.
>>
>> : Well, my vehicle is WHITE and NEVER any marks. I have never spilled any
>> fuel that way because the fuel : only flows when *I* pull the trigger on
>> the control....nothing to do with the routing of the hose. One : 
>> shouldn't
>> Start filling until the nozzle is all in and should remove the nozzle
>> until trigger is off. : (sigh)
>>
>> ***   This is true. However nozzles will contain some residual fuel and
>> that may leak onto the finish.
>>
>>   Also, if the pump is not an overhead type, the hose will get dragged
>> across the car's trunk unless it is long enough to pass behind the
>> vehicle.
>>
>> Richard
>
> What fucking idiots are we dealing with here? One pulls the hose out of 
> the pump, lifting it at the same time. WHen it is fully extended, over the 
> vehicle, one lowers it as one inserts the nozzle into the filler tube. 
> There is NO DRAGGING the hose over anything. I have never in almost 50 
> years of driving and filling up EVER got ANY marks from hose.
>
>
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