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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / March 2008Re:OTP light easy luggage
Kelly wrote: > You also won't have to pump your own gas, > while on your shopping spree.:) I had read decades ago that Oregon doesn't permit self-serv gas stations because of someone's (unfounded) worry that the fire hazzard is greater at a self-serv. But I had put the info in the back of my memory, so when Mary and I stopped for our first tankful in Oregon while enroute to Portland, I did come as a shock to see (1) full-serv gas stations, and (2) lower prices than in California where you would be hard-pressed to find any service. ... Inane tagline found: (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ind a better one. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 I wish michigan still had some full service stations. Most of the time I don't mind at all pumping my own gas, but when I am really not feeling well or when I am dressed up, I don't feel like pumping my own gas. Sigh.....miss those full service stations! . . . . Donna . . . . 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) J.K.M.A. > I wish michigan still had some full service stations. Most of the time > I don't mind at all pumping my own gas, but when I am really not feeling > well or when I am dressed up, I don't feel like pumping my own gas. > Sigh.....miss those full service stations! Most, but not all, stations around me are self-service. But there's one station where sometimes a guy would just come out and help me. I finally figured out that that happened only when I stopped at the pump closest to the office/garage; it's a service station that actually has a garage, not just a convenience store, so they have more than one person staffing it during the day. Once I figured it out, I stopped using that specific pump, unless I actually feel as if I need the help.  Signature"[xxx] has very definite opinions, and does not suffer fools lightly. This, apparently, upsets the fools." ---BB cuts to the pith of a flame-fest > I wish michigan still had some full service stations. Most of the time > I don't mind at all pumping my own gas, but when I am really not feeling > well or when I am dressed up, I don't feel like pumping my own gas. > Sigh.....miss those full service stations! Some of ours up here have full-serve sections. Maybe it's because we have some many older retirees up here. Now that you don't have to physically hold the handle down on self-serve pumps, I can handle them. If they were still as they used to be, I'd be in trouble! SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Change everything. Love & forgive. > Kelly wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > stations, and (2) lower prices than in California where you > would be hard-pressed to find any service. Motorcyclists are now allowed to pump their own, if they wish. That changed recently. Yeah, the big argument in favor of self-serve gas was supposed to be that it cost less, because you weren't paying somebody's wages. Apparently that's not true, because gas in Cali and Washington is higher than it is here. Kelly C. > But I had put the info in the back of my memory, so when Mary > and I stopped for our first tankful in Oregon while enroute > to Portland, I did come as a shock to see (1) full-serv gas > stations, and (2) lower prices than in California where you > would be hard-pressed to find any service. In WA, they are supposed to come and put the gas in your car if you display a disabled placard. However, that doesn't not apply to places where there is only one person on duty, which is 99% of the gas stations, so they get around it that way. I've only had gas pumped once for me since moving here and that was on Whidbey Island. Carole Califchief wrote: > But I had put the info in the back of my memory, so when Mary > and I stopped for our first tankful in Oregon while enroute > to Portland, I did come as a shock to see (1) full-serv gas > stations, and (2) lower prices than in California where you > would be hard-pressed to find any service. In WA, they are supposed to come and put the gas in your car if you display a disabled placard. However, that doesn't not apply to places where there is only one person on duty, which is 99% of the gas stations, so they get around it that way. I've only had gas pumped once for me since moving here and that was on Whidbey Island. Carole sigh . . . my shoulder can't help wishing . . . kate
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