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Someone's pumping gas with the engine running... What do you do?
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Originally Posted by 8is>enuff
I would like to know how you're so sure of this.give it a whirl.. get a metal pie pan pour some gas and flip a cigarette in it, be safe, but i'll guarantee you it will go out. try all you want it, you might as well be throwing it into water...
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Originally Posted by alnielsen
All the fuel nozzels suck vapors back into the pump.
NY's oddball law is that you cannot leave the pump unattended. To enforce that none of the pump have the locking clip you find in other states and there are signs which warn against using the gas cap or any other device to wedge the handle.
I guess that helps to guard against the static zaps from getting in and out of the car, but it thwarts my age-old ritual of washing the windows while the fuel fills.
Personally, I think there's no greater, imminent danger from a running vehicle, but I think there are more things that can go wrong if the car is running vs. shut off so I prefer it off.
I had to leave my Toyota p.o.s. truck running once when I gassed up because the battery was weak and I knew it wouldn't restart if I switched off. I was uncomfortable doing so - force of habit. Cultural conditioning? Who knows.
Regarding the cold - a car won't get *that* cold in the 2 minutes it takes to gas up. It shouldn't make any difference unless you just started out and are gassing up as your first stop (which is an argument for gassing up the night before - reap the rewards of good habits).
I can't see cold weather as a reasonable excuse to be irresponsible at a gas station (with the possible exception of certain diesel vehicles). When you're out of the car at a gas station your keys ought to be in your pocket. How about that lady with the baby in the SUV? Was she *hoping* her SUV got car-jacked with her baby inside? I would expect not, but she didn't take the first and most reasonable precaution - take your stupid keys with you!
When I was learning to drive in CA a 'drive off' at a gas station didn't just mean stealing gas - it was a really common way for folks to steal cars. So common that insurance companies would send reminders to owners not to leave their running car unattended at gas stations.
Totally confuzzled...
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Guy and Ike... you both have some seious agression issues... You could just have responded "Nothing... It's no big deal". Comments like "Mind your own F'ing business and leave other people alone @sswipe" really aren't necessary at all.
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I have the solution. Next time you see someone doing this and feel compelled to do something..
Walk up to them , turn around, drop your pants and moon them. Much better alternative than enforcing your ideals on someone else.
Walk up to them , turn around, drop your pants and moon them. Much better alternative than enforcing your ideals on someone else.
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Just being honest. If someone walks up to me demanding that I do something different than I am doing when I'm causing no obvious harm that is how I reply.
Originally Posted by vectorwolf
Guy and Ike... you both have some seious agression issues... You could just have responded "Nothing... It's no big deal". Comments like "Mind your own F'ing business and leave other people alone @sswipe" really aren't necessary at all.
Originally Posted by guy321
I have the solution. Next time you see someone doing this and feel compelled to do something..
Walk up to them , turn around, drop your pants and moon them. Much better alternative than enforcing your ideals on someone else.
Walk up to them , turn around, drop your pants and moon them. Much better alternative than enforcing your ideals on someone else.
An inadvertant release of methane could contribute significantly to the explosion hazzard.
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Originally Posted by guy321
Just being honest. If someone walks up to me demanding that I do something different than I am doing when I'm causing no obvious harm that is how I reply.
The Cool-Blue-Dad appeals for calm.
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Originally Posted by guy321
Just being honest. If someone walks up to me demanding that I do something different than I am doing when I'm causing no obvious harm that is how I reply.
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I'd prefer the guy moon me. Atleast then I could laugh instead of get annoyed. 
I guess what Ike and I said could seem agressive or "on edge".
Don't you think being approached by a stranger and being told/"suggested" something you should or shouldn't do is aggressive in the first place??
I think it is. I've also been on the original poster's side of the coin.. not about gas though, but when a guy is badly mistreating his GF because he's drunk, to the point where he's slapping her... I "suggested" he shouldn't.. and I got a very aggressive response....
I guess what Ike and I said could seem agressive or "on edge".
Don't you think being approached by a stranger and being told/"suggested" something you should or shouldn't do is aggressive in the first place??
I think it is. I've also been on the original poster's side of the coin.. not about gas though, but when a guy is badly mistreating his GF because he's drunk, to the point where he's slapping her... I "suggested" he shouldn't.. and I got a very aggressive response....
Last edited by guy321; Jan 16, 2006 at 04:06 PM.
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Thanks to Cool-Blue-Dad and vectorwolf for the support in a call to keep things civil.
Guy (and others), I appreciate your honesty and your point about not being at all agreeable to a stranger telling you what to do or not to do has been taken to heart. Really. My reason for starting the thread in the first place was to open a (hopefully civil) dialogue on the subject to possibly change the way I see and do things -- not necessarily to defend my actions or advocate that others do as I did.
In truth, the aggressive responses in this thread to my personal story, which I don't hesitate to admit in retrospect was a "well-intentioned meddling," has helped to solidify my resolve to handle things differently in real life in the future -- that is, not to expect a civil response from the person being "meddled," and to instead to just keep a low profile and just quietly avoid the situation altogether.
Guy (and others), I appreciate your honesty and your point about not being at all agreeable to a stranger telling you what to do or not to do has been taken to heart. Really. My reason for starting the thread in the first place was to open a (hopefully civil) dialogue on the subject to possibly change the way I see and do things -- not necessarily to defend my actions or advocate that others do as I did.
In truth, the aggressive responses in this thread to my personal story, which I don't hesitate to admit in retrospect was a "well-intentioned meddling," has helped to solidify my resolve to handle things differently in real life in the future -- that is, not to expect a civil response from the person being "meddled," and to instead to just keep a low profile and just quietly avoid the situation altogether.
Picture it this way:
You are standing in line at the grocery store with your 15 items or less and you call your spouse/significant other/room mate to confirm that you have gotten everything you need.
In the middle of your conversation, a guy ambles up to you from a different checkout lane (leaving his items behind) and insists that you hang up because the radiation from the phone might give him a tumor (statistically more likely than you getting blown up at the Exxon).
You are standing in line at the grocery store with your 15 items or less and you call your spouse/significant other/room mate to confirm that you have gotten everything you need.
In the middle of your conversation, a guy ambles up to you from a different checkout lane (leaving his items behind) and insists that you hang up because the radiation from the phone might give him a tumor (statistically more likely than you getting blown up at the Exxon).
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Originally Posted by MazdaManiac
Picture it this way:
You are standing in line at the grocery store with your 15 items or less and you call your spouse/significant other/room mate to confirm that you have gotten everything you need.
In the middle of your conversation, a guy ambles up to you from a different checkout lane (leaving his items behind) and insists that you hang up because the radiation from the phone might give him a tumor (statistically more likely than you getting blown up at the Exxon).
You are standing in line at the grocery store with your 15 items or less and you call your spouse/significant other/room mate to confirm that you have gotten everything you need.
In the middle of your conversation, a guy ambles up to you from a different checkout lane (leaving his items behind) and insists that you hang up because the radiation from the phone might give him a tumor (statistically more likely than you getting blown up at the Exxon).
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Originally Posted by guy321
I'd prefer the guy moon me. Atleast then I could laugh instead of get annoyed.
I guess what Ike and I said could seem agressive or "on edge".
Don't you think being approached by a stranger and being told/"suggested" something you should or shouldn't do is aggressive in the first place??
I think it is. I've also been on the original poster's side of the coin.. not about gas though, but when a guy is badly mistreating his GF because he's drunk, to the point where he's slapping her... I "suggested" he shouldn't.. and I got a very aggressive response....
I guess what Ike and I said could seem agressive or "on edge".
Don't you think being approached by a stranger and being told/"suggested" something you should or shouldn't do is aggressive in the first place??
I think it is. I've also been on the original poster's side of the coin.. not about gas though, but when a guy is badly mistreating his GF because he's drunk, to the point where he's slapping her... I "suggested" he shouldn't.. and I got a very aggressive response....
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Respect.
Good things come out of everything
Good things come out of everything
Originally Posted by sharward
Thanks to Cool-Blue-Dad and vectorwolf for the support in a call to keep things civil.
Guy (and others), I appreciate your honesty and your point about not being at all agreeable to a stranger telling you what to do or not to do has been taken to heart. Really. My reason for starting the thread in the first place was to open a (hopefully civil) dialogue on the subject to possibly change the way I see and do things -- not necessarily to defend my actions or advocate that others do as I did.
In truth, the aggressive responses in this thread to my personal story, which I don't hesitate to admit in retrospect was a "well-intentioned meddling," has helped to solidify my resolve to handle things differently in real life in the future -- that is, not to expect a civil response from the person being "meddled," and to instead to just keep a low profile and just quietly avoid the situation altogether.
Guy (and others), I appreciate your honesty and your point about not being at all agreeable to a stranger telling you what to do or not to do has been taken to heart. Really. My reason for starting the thread in the first place was to open a (hopefully civil) dialogue on the subject to possibly change the way I see and do things -- not necessarily to defend my actions or advocate that others do as I did.
In truth, the aggressive responses in this thread to my personal story, which I don't hesitate to admit in retrospect was a "well-intentioned meddling," has helped to solidify my resolve to handle things differently in real life in the future -- that is, not to expect a civil response from the person being "meddled," and to instead to just keep a low profile and just quietly avoid the situation altogether.
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Explosion fears notwithstanding, it sure is a Hell of a lot easier to steal a car that's sitting there running. I really don't like not having my keys with me anyway, which is why I almost never lose them. As Cool-Blue-Dad said, reap the rewards of good habits.
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As many people have said there's about an eleventy billion smaller likelihood that a fire would be caused by someone leaving their car running than from static electricity from some fatty scoochin' himself out of his 4x4 Hemi with hot girl mud flaps or from a soccer mom driving her 27' 15 ton Canyonero SUV (takes up two lanes!) and having to slide off the seat ever so delicately as to not break her ankle from the 5' drop. Actually, I have no idea -- I just thought that it would be funnier if I took an angry sort of stance for my mini-rant.
Anywho, I've actually seen a car stolen from someone who left their car running, went around to the other side to operate the pump, and when they turned around someone had already hopped in and was rolling away. I would have chased after him, but I already put my quarter in the vacuum. Wonder if that guy ever got his car back...........
Anywho, I've actually seen a car stolen from someone who left their car running, went around to the other side to operate the pump, and when they turned around someone had already hopped in and was rolling away. I would have chased after him, but I already put my quarter in the vacuum. Wonder if that guy ever got his car back...........
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One of my co-workers just got jacked for his Eclips--I mean Galant. He left his car in his friend's driveway, and went into his house for maybe, 25-30 seconds, and when he emerged he was reduced to a pedestrian. Fortunately his insurance Co. took care of him.
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Thanks!! 
Glad you like it. It complements my custom plate and frame pretty well! 
(Unfortunately, PROG MTL was already taken! 
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Actually, it's not a "sticker." I had my window tinter custom cut silver tint on the inside surface of the glass, then cover the entire window with 20% tint. Here's a larger image.
Glad you like it. It complements my custom plate and frame pretty well! (Unfortunately, PROG MTL was already taken! )Actually, it's not a "sticker." I had my window tinter custom cut silver tint on the inside surface of the glass, then cover the entire window with 20% tint. Here's a larger image.
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one time, at band camp, i wondered why people were so uptight about what other people do...then i got a life and realized i had bigger things to worry about.
cmon guys, lighten up already. people are doing WAY worse things in life vs "sinning" while pumping gas. why dont you put your energy toward stopping poverty or something more worthwhile.
i have NEVER EVER heard of any dangerous situation at a gas station caused by ANY of the above mentioned issues. tho once i did see guy moon another person. i definitely called 911 on that one. geez, what was he doing with all those gnomes????
cmon guys, lighten up already. people are doing WAY worse things in life vs "sinning" while pumping gas. why dont you put your energy toward stopping poverty or something more worthwhile.
i have NEVER EVER heard of any dangerous situation at a gas station caused by ANY of the above mentioned issues. tho once i did see guy moon another person. i definitely called 911 on that one. geez, what was he doing with all those gnomes????
