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True!

I was in Portland a few weeks ago for work. Friendliest hobo's I've ever seen! One young hobo/addict jumped on the city rail car and asked me for a dollar. I told him no and he looked so disappointed. Then he explained how bad he felt riding the train with out paying fare. A hobo with a conscience!

It was hilarious.

It helps when you know your constituents...." if they can't pump gas...we can talk them into anything....."

Think of it as working welfare. The law was always kept on the books because it guaranteed jobs, which works better in cities than rural area's with low volume pumps. Things might be tough, but you could always find a job pumping gas at minimum wage. To be honest, I would rather have someone pump my gas than sit on their but and collect welfare as communist as that sounds.

As a Oregon native who's been in Montana almost a decade, I almost have the pump your own gas thing figured out :P .

Jobs??? Was ain't supposed to have jobs here we are only to be here to pay China to do all our work.

Last fall I flew to Eugene for a job. When I got ready to turn in the rental I whipped into a station near the airport around 5:00 am.

No one around, I just got out stuck the card in the reader slot and filled 'er up.

We went in to get a cup of coffee and I thought Achmed was gonna' have a stroke.

You'll put your eye out with that nozzle and set your
clothes on fire every time. Don't do it!!

And bang all your women.




Dave

Too funny. You guys crack me up.

Have at it...

Is the one on the right Bruce Jenner II?

I guess I need to travel more. 27 years of driving and I have never been to a full service gas station. I've pumped my own gas every time.

'She's' 'transitioning'. And she prefers Rebecca.

No problem,,,,, armpit hair is a turn on for a sheep men.

Them're Oregon womens?

you see cars in Northern California, pull up to the pumps and just sit there, until someone meanders over and tell them they have to pump their own gas.....

or you're from Oregon and say been on a trip down to Texas for a Campfire GetToGether, and you pull up at the station in your home town and get out and start to fill your own car up.... until one of the local teenagers or 20 somethings come over and freak out right in front of you.....

older guys really don't care... they usually start off with " just coming back from an out of state trip, huh? where did ya go?"

I have to admit, after living here 20 years now, I still think Oregon does it this way, to give job security to the habitually stupid.... ya know, Democrats who can't figure out how to fill out the welfare forms, food stamp forms and their Medical Marijuana Card Application...

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Good evening to you sir, hopefully the week treated you well.

I had to think about the last time I saw someone pump gas before our family traveled to Oregon a few summers back and truly I believe it mostly went away up on this side of the medicine line by the early '80's.

Honestly it was entertaining in some ways as I got to tell some "old timer" stories to our teen aged daughters to whom it was an entirely new experience.

Anyway we really enjoyed our visit to Oregon, both the scenery and the folks there put it on our list of places to return to someday.

All the best to you this weekend sir - wherever your travels take you.

Dwayne

In OR you still don't get full service. They pump the gas but they don't clean the windshield or check your oil. A lot of the bigger stations will hire 1 or 2 flunkies to handle a dozen pumps. They have to run between pumps to keep up and you usually have to wait.

I figured that's the way it was. I know that it's to prevent drive offs.

So don't they trust the people to be smart enough to pump their own or is it a "control issue" by the socialists in power?

Shall we go down the list of Oregonians?




Dave