Put time back on the clock?

[Dan_ref]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ChuckElias

Originally posted by Dan_ref

You mean forward? Seriously, MA has no law about entering a gas station in any certain direction. Although, I could at least understand that law if it existed. Basic traffic flow control. It would probably not be essentially important, but I could understand it.

But I honestly don't understand why people aren't allowed to pump their own gas in OR and NJ. Do the 16-year-old boys that do the pumping have to go thru special training to do it right?

Chuck

Last summer I was in a busy gas station in Mass. It turned
out the gas tank was on the other side of the car (rental)
so I drove around the island & went to the other side.
Everyone else was facing the other way. Some guy came
running out & told me I could not fill up facing that way,
a new law had gone into effect mandating a "forward"
direction that everyone had to maintain. Maybe 'cause I
was wearing my Yankees hat?

[ChuckElias]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dan_ref

Last summer I was in a busy gas station in Mass. I could not fill up facing that way, a new law had gone into effect mandating a "forward" direction that everyone had to maintain.

Maybe that was a town ordnance. I'm pretty sure that it's not a statewide thing. Yankees cap, indeed.

originally posted by Camron Rust

I happen to like it. You don't risk smelling like gasoline when you are on the way to an important meeting. It also rains a lot here in Oregon (betcha didn't know that) and I get to stay in my warm, dry car. It also provides jobs to many people that don't have any significant skills or education or perhaps have fallen on bad times.

The State's arguments for keeping it are the jobs and an increase level of safety.

That's great that you stay dry on the way to a meeting, but if I'm in a big hurry and don't care about getting a little wet then why should the state prohibit me from doing it? That's just bizarre. And as far as the jobs go, that's also a fine goal, but why not give them the same job, but only have them pump at the "full serve" line, while I pump my own so I don't have to wait?

Chuck

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by ChuckElias


...Yankees cap, indeed.

Indeed!

[Mark Dexter]

Originally posted by Dan_ref
Maybe 'cause I was wearing my Yankees hat?

And you're still alive!!??!?!???

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by Mark Dexter

And you're still alive!!??!?!???

Yeah. In my younger days (geeze, now I'm sounding like
Mick) I was in the habit of visiting Fenway and stopping
for post game refreshments wearing my Yankees cap. And this
was when Boston had a team that could play!

(Actually, I even more surprised than you are!)

[Mark Dexter]

Dan, you are one brave man!

I went to school right on the CT/MA border (in CT), so we had quite a split between Yankee and Red Sox fans. Thankfully we didn't have any fights, but a Yankees fan teacher once kicked out a kid who supported the Red Sox (yes, because he was supporting the Red Sox in class).

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by Mark Dexter
Dan, you are one brave man!

I went to school right on the CT/MA border (in CT), so we had quite a split between Yankee and Red Sox fans. Thankfully we didn't have any fights, but a Yankees fan teacher once kicked out a kid who supported the Red Sox (yes, because he was supporting the Red Sox in class).

Actually some of my best friends are Red Sox fans. When I
lived out west I went to Angels games with a transplanted
Boston native. He wore his Sox hat, I wore my Yankees hat
and we rooted against the Angels (except when we saw the
Tigers play). For some reason they always cut off
our beer before the 7th inning. Our boss was a huge Angels
fan, luckily we had yearly reviews in February, when he had
forgiven us and was again optimistic about the Angels chances.

[BktBallRef]

Had a friend who was a Red Sox fan. He was in Shea Stadum for Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. He was sitting in the bleachers along the right field line, able to open a bottle of champagne when a ground ball rolled through Bill Buckner's legs!

Then, one of those friendly New Yorkers stole his camera bag with about $1000 worth of camera equipment in it.

Overall, not a good night.

[dblref]

Originally posted by Mark Dexter

And you're still alive!!??!?!???

Spent 2 weeks in August visiting my son in Olympia, WA area and I wore my Yankees cap every day.....an survived! During the visit, the Mariners took 2 of 3 from the Yankees and when we were at the airport leaving, a young man (about 17 or 18) was sitting with an older couple and as I was going down the gangway to the plane, he said "Yankees Suck!!" I smiled at him and asked him when was the last time the Mariners won the world series and he said never. I then asked him the last time they won the AL title, and he said never. I then told him.."jealously is such a petty emotion" ... and he looked at me with a blank stare. Later in the flight, the older gentleman he had been sitting with (his grandfather) stopped me in the aisle and told me that is the first time he has ever seen his grandson speechless. The grandfather thought the comment was funny. BTW, the grandfather was a Red Sox fan.