Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:18:48 -0400
Reply-To: Tom Stone <tstone8359@AOL.COM>
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From: Tom Stone <tstone8359@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Oregon gasoline- was Steve Sandlin keys win again
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I was in Port Jervis, NY this AM and could not pump my own gas.
Tom
On June 20, 2014 11:55:28 AM Todd Last <rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> Last I checked, OR and NJ were the only two states where you could not pump
> your own gas.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bjorkman
> To: vanagon
> Sent: June 20, 2014 at 6:58 AM
> Subject: Fwd: Re: Re: Oregon gasoline- was Steve Sandlin keys win again
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> From: ddbjorkman@verizon.net
> Date: Jun 20, 2014 8:52:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: Oregon gasoline- was Steve Sandlin keys win again
> To: 1234bjs@GMAIL.COM
>
> Used to be no one pumped their own gas. The gas station attendant did that,
> checked your oil, and cleaned your windshield. Then you paid cash.
> I salute Oregon for finding something for teens/less advantaged of us to do
> to make some money.
>
> Dave B.
>
>
> On 06/20/14, bernie <1234bjs@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Here's a unique and amusing gas station thing...In Oregon they have a law
> that prohibits you from pumping your own gasoline...so when you get gas
> there you hand the gas jockey your key and your credit card or cash and sit
> there while he/she pumps it,...
>
> I hand my keys and credit card to nobody.
> I open the gas tank for them and I then insert the credit card into the pump
> to authorize gas.
> They pump the gas.
> After they are done I put the gas cap back on.
> My keys and credit card never leave my hand and that's how I like it.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:58 PM, bernie <1234bjs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here's a unique and amusing gas station thing...In Oregon they have a law
> > that prohibits you from pumping your own gasoline...so when you get gas
> > there you hand the gas jockey your key and your credit card or cash and sit
> > there while he/she pumps it,...
> >> I hand my keys and credit card to nobody.
> > I open the gas tank for them and I then insert the credit card into the
> > pump
> > to authorize gas.
> > They pump the gas.
> > After they are done I put the gas cap back on.
> > My keys and credit card never leave my hand and that's how I like it.
> >> Bernie
> > Vancouver
> >>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Rob <vwrobb@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> At 6/19/2014 10:28 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
> >>>> .
> >>> Here's a unique and amusing gas station thing...In Oregon they have a law
> >>> that prohibits you from pumping your own gasoline...so when you get gas
> >>> there you hand the gas jockey your key and your credit card or cash and
> >>> sit
> >>> there while he/she pumps it,...
> >>>>>>>>> Once I was getting gas in Oregon, I've handed her my key, card & I'm
> >> waiting. It's been too long, I get out & go around to see her
> >> twisting the key in the lock. The lock was not moving, just the
> >> key.... It didn't break.
> >> I hate buying gas in Oregon, one bad experience <g>.
> >>>> Rob
> >> vwrobb@gmail.com
> >>>>
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