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| Grumpy Old Pharts Board Gerritol, Ex-Lax, Immodium, Bad Breath - all requirements for the Grumpy Board |
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03-09-2006, 11:35 AM
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Retired Surfer
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Bigfish you missed this grumpage
What about the car manufacturers that have in the last couple of years are again starting to put gas fills on the right side of the motor vehicles causing massive snarlups at gas stations? In Massachusetts thier used to be an adhered to rule that all cars must fill on the right side of the gas island when getting gas. It never changed that I know of. I know in the eighties the manufacturers started doing this, placing the fills on the right side, because people who were running out of gas on the highways were getting run over while putting gas in the cars from a five gallon container while standing adjacent to the travel lane. This must piss you off Larry.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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03-09-2006, 11:47 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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No not so much Frank...gotta do what you gotta do. Funny thing is I used to work at a gas station pumping gas years back.....you wanna see one pissed off MF!!!!! I would be yelling and screaming at customers (it was a full serve station) and they would pull into a full 2 lanes of cars and pull up facing the cars at the pumps and expect to be able to get in the line like that!!!!! I used to flip out on people like you would not believe...  (or maybe you would!) I would scream at them that they needed to get in line behind everyone else and I had no problem reaching their fills!!!  I had this one old bastard that would come in every week....he wanted me to pump $10.00 worth of 87 octane and then pump in $10.00 worth of 93?????? What the hell was he trying to accomplish???? Other than saving an extra 30 cents?????    Gawd I hated that guy! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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03-09-2006, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
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I used to pump gas too...it was a perfect job for a teenager back in the seventies...you dont see many kids doing it these days...I remember having pockets full of cake and hoping I wouldnt get robbed....different times......
Swimmer... I hit one of those the other day ...at a cheapo place...messed up things big time |
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03-09-2006, 04:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Maine
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Originally Posted by BigFish
No not so much Frank...gotta do what you gotta do. Funny thing is I used to work at a gas station pumping gas years back.....you wanna see one pissed off MF!!!!! I would be yelling and screaming at customers (it was a full serve station) and they would pull into a full 2 lanes of cars and pull up facing the cars at the pumps and expect to be able to get in the line like that!!!!! I used to flip out on people like you would not believe... (or maybe you would!) I would scream at them that they needed to get in line behind everyone else and I had no problem reaching their fills!!! I had this one old bastard that would come in every week....he wanted me to pump $10.00 worth of 87 octane and then pump in $10.00 worth of 93?????? What the hell was he trying to accomplish???? Other than saving an extra 30 cents????? Gawd I hated that guy! |
Larry, I can't picture you dealing with customers  |
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03-09-2006, 04:54 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Its an ugly thing MAC!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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03-09-2006, 04:59 PM
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Registered User
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Originally Posted by BigFish
Its an ugly thing MAC! |
What, you or me  |
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03-09-2006, 05:00 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Me dealing with customers!  Actually I am real good with my customers....treat them real nice...they love me! Imagine that?  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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03-09-2006, 05:17 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
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larry LOVES people!!! |
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03-09-2006, 05:22 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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I am a people person....  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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03-09-2006, 06:08 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
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were'nt you in the original cast of "up with people"?
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03-09-2006, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by afterhours
larry LOVES people!!! |
Yea,,,,,,, MEDIUM RARE !!!!
I have quite a few gas pumping stories too, did the grave yard shift.
Pumped gas during the blizzard of 78'.
but man did I see some sights at 2-5 in the morning..  |
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Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
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03-09-2006, 09:27 PM
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Registered User
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Location: RI
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My car fills on the passenger side, is there something wrong with that?
-spence
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03-09-2006, 09:36 PM
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Registered User
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Location: Whitman,Ma.
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BF'S song...People....People ,loving people...Its the lovelist feeling... |
I'm going where I'm going... 
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03-10-2006, 12:14 PM
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Retired Surfer
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Location: Sunset Grill
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Bigfish
Did you wash the old guys windshield?  |
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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