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Originally Posted by SugahBritches
It's illegal??? To pump your own gas????? Holly cow patties!! 
NG, find somewhere else to live girl! The dag gum Nazis has took over there! Good grief, I thought you Yankees had a reign on things!!!??? 
Now you can really laugh n0nsense! I never knew there were states that didn't let you pump your own gas!! Oh man. This has blew my mind!  |
Every effort to have self-serve stations in NJ has failed. I absolutely HATE having to sit there waiting for some minimum wage kid to saunter over to do what I can do in two minutes.
Here's a typical scenario (happened to me after a long road trip and got back into NJ and needed gas):
Pull into a gas station, there's a line of cars ahead, maybe 5. One worker. After about 10 minutes, the woman in front of me has her turn. Hands the kid her credit card. He goes into his booth, swipes the card. No good. Goes back to the car, gets another credit card. By now her tank is full. He goes back to booth, swipes, gets receipt. Back to the car for signature. Finally, it's my turn. But he had to put his copy in the booth first, so I wait.
As to the point made that we don't have to 'get out and stand in bad weather', except for really old stations, not one I have gone to is totally out in the open-they have canopies. Not to mention it's no big deal to get the pump going and sit in your nice warm car. Another factor, albeit a small one-many attendants in this state have been arrested and charged with double-dipping; they will charge your credit card twice and take the cash. A local station attendant was charged with stealing almost $30k doing that. Another scam they pull is not bringing the pump to zero-I was charged $10 more the one time I didn't bother to check the numbers. They then pocket that extra. It's getting harder to do that one since many stations have changed to the same pumps seen in self-serve, but for those that haven't yet, you have to be aware.