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"Spider" <beelzebubba@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Me" <srhi@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > <pobox---@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> > >
> > > I'm confused. What's the big thrill about pumping your
> > > own gas -- especially at $1.21 a gallon? I'd rather
> > > someone else do it! What am I missing?
> >
> > I guess some people just have to feel like they've one upped the
> > system.
>
> Nope, that's not it.  You folks seem to be confused.
>
> > I live in NJ, but grew up in PA and I cannot fathom why
> > anyone would prefer to pump their own gas.
>
> If you can wrap your small imaginations around this:
>
> 1.)  Time.  I like to spend as little time as I must waiting for other
> people to do their thing.  Whether it's serving me in the first place
> or getting the credit card/cash thing taken care of, it's all time
> that holds value to me.

I live in NJ and I have heard this claim from several people so I
started to time my gas station fillups. The average is about 7
minutes from the time I pull into the gas station to the time I
exit the gas station. Once in a great while, the time exceeds
7 minutes, but rarely by much. This is what, all of a minute
more than it takes when I do self serve in PA and pay with a
credit card at the pump. I do avoid filling up during rush hour.
During rush hour, the wait can be much longer.

> 2.)  I spend time making sure my car is clean and waxed.  When the
> pump-jockey sloshes fuel on my quarter panel, it annoys me, because
> then I have to wash it and wax it again.  While your beater might not
> matter to you, my car and it's appearance matter to me.

I haven't had gas splashed on my cars in years. Perhaps the gas
station attendants at the stations I use the most are unusually
attentive, but they do not splash the gas anywhere on my car
and they do not get anal about filling up to the nearest dollar;
they usually go to the nearest $0.25, which is fine by me.

> 3.)  I'm tired of paying for replacement gas caps.

My current car is 4 years old. The car I drove before was
ten years old. Not once did I have to replace the gas cap on
either of them.

> 4.)  I do not like scratches in my quarter panel because the pump
> jockey can't be careful with the pump nozzle.

Who does? I guess I must be lucky because my current car has
no scratches anywhere near the gas tank and I do not recall any
on my previous car when I traded it in.