Re: Self-Service Gas

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From: ken ficara
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:22

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Another justification for the self-service ban -- I have no idea if
this is fact or not, just another possible reason -- is security. Not
of the customers, but of the attendants. Allegedly the lone cashier in
the booth gets robbed more often?

I don't really give a damn. The prices being low in NJ -- as another
poster pointed out -- have to do with taxes and little else. I will
not wait for the clods, and I usually get out and pump my own damn gas
anyway. Ninety percent of the attendants don't care -- it saves them
work. The other ten percent, if they tell me to wait for them, and
they're taking forever, I leave and find another station.

Pumping your own also avoids the problem that occurs when the pump
stops at $9.21, and the attendant wants to push it up to an even $10
and pumps $.50 or so worth of gas all over the side of your car.


Ken Ficara                                        ficara@remus.rutgers.edu
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