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i go to costco on sunday after the gym, before 9.....no lines. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
I wish that the Costco gas stations around here did that. I buy almost all of my gas at Costco. I have never seen mid grade, only two choices at the pump, regular (87) and premium (93). Never seen E0 at Costco, either. Must be a regional thing. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
You know, I'm in my 50s, and I honestly don't recall EVER seeing a dude in a wheelchair in a public bathroom. I never came out of one to see a (visibly) handicapped person waiting on the stall. Using a 'handicap' bathroom stall is nothing like using a handicap parking space, and I would certainly not consider those of us who do so as being 'dicks.' I'm in and out (not 'camping') of a bathroom stall in under 5 minutes, so EVEN IF a real handicapped person needed it, the consequences of me using that stall instead of the normal ones are almost insignificant. As for getting unleaded at 'The Only Diesel Pump,' I honestly don't look to see which pumps have regular and which have diesel. I usually go for the first available if there is a line (like Costco), or my 'favorite' pumps at my 3 'regular' gas stations I use locally. I suppose it's irritating for those needing diesel for me to use 'The One Pump With Diesel' (if I actually do so), but it honestly never occurred to me to actually check until I read this thread. Perhaps, I might do so in the future. Anyway, I'm in and out so quickly that it shouldn't matter. Now, I DETEST those who get gas at a pump and THEN go inside to shop. I always gas up, park in a regular parking space, and THEN go inside the store to shop or use the bathroom. . . Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
dang, I just read this while I was making a democrat in the handicap stall at WaWa, and I left my truck at the Diesel/Ethanol/Unleaded pump... I hope they get my mochafrappalattechinodoubleshotsoynowhip drink done so I don't have to wait on it, I hate having to stand around ...  | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
We dropped our Costco membership a year or so ago because the two locations are just to far away and involve driving through congested areas. That statement was based on internet search for our area which listed them as offering E0. Quicktrip for sure 90 octane is E0 around here. Quicktrips are every in North Texas. Maybe more than 7-11's. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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I had also never noticed until Dad got cancer and became frail very quickly. We'd go into a bathroom and every stall would be empty except for the handicap one, with someone sitting there for awhile. There was insufficient room for a wheelchair in the regular empty stalls, especially with a second person in there to do the lifting, so we'd just have to wait until it opened up, while Dad was sitting there feeling ill from the chemo. I hope you never have to go through it. He didn't last long like that, which was a blessing really. I find it interesting how many people will become a vigilante if they see a non-handicap person using a handicap parking space, but have no problems occupying the handicap stall in a bathroom. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe a handicap stall is a handicap person's personal restroom, there for their exclusive use. I'm not going to crap to my socks just to stay off the cripple stool. However, if there's another stall available, I like to use it instead. We must have twenty handicap parking spaces down at Walmart, and I've never seen more than five in use. However, I'd never park in one because I'd probably get ticketed, or worse, someone would get all offended and key my car. It's odd how we as a society are so militant about parking, but jump right on the handicap crapper. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
The local Costco is maybe five minutes from my house. Could be seven or eight minutes if timing is wrong for the traffic lights. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I start the pump and then go inside. The pump is usually done or just getting when I come out. Hang it up and drive away. Fortunately, though, we don't typically have any back ups. They just built a big new Town Pump with eight islands (16 places to pull up) and the trucker pumps clear on the other end of the lot. All this for a one-horse town. At best you'll find five or six people at the pumps at any given time. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
I'm not handicapped (officially) but I prefer to use the handicapped stall because the fixture is higher and sometimes longer and I'm more comfortable on it. I try not to be there long. BTW, I've never seen the larger stall actually marked "handicapped only". flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Official Space Nerd |
Well, (in my state, at least) it's a crime to park in a handicap parking spot without proper credentials (handicap plate, tag, etc). Some cops I've talked to will actually ticket people who have handicap plates, but they themselves aren't the handicapped ones (like seeing a handicap plated car park there and 4 teenage girls hop out - I've seen this quite a lot when I worked parking lot security at my church). I honestly don't believe the same convention applies to bathroom stalls. A handicap parking spot can be occupied for hours (mall, Wally-mart, movie theater, amusement park, etc). A 'handicap' bathroom stall, on the other hand, is not (generally) in use for ANYWHERE near that amount of time. You do have a good point, though, and I will take it into consideration in the future. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
I have never seen "only," but I do see the blue placard with the white wheel chair. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado |
The gym I go to has but two stalls. One regular and one handicap. On the rare odd occasion I need to take a crap while there, I'll use the regular unless it's occupied or extremely dirty, in which as I have no qualms about sitting my ass in the handicap stall. If a truly handicap person came in and said, hey I need to go real bad, I'd cut it short and give him the throne. Or I guess he could declare that he identifies as women and go see if one is available there.  Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
Here in UK it's very rare to see a two-nozzle pump. All our locals have three - Diesel, regular and super gasoline. Here in UK we have very high proportion of diesel cars, far more than you do, and far less pick-ups - usually a farmer/professional job vehicle or, in towns out in the 'rurals', a poser. A guy around the corner from us has a V10 dodge Ram with a gasoline engine - same as the Viper, I bleeve. It is electric blue, utterly immaculate in every way and used maybe once a week. With gas costing almost $8 a gallon and economy like running an M1 Abrams, it's no big surprise. | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
Illegal here in Europe. You have to attend to the hose - they don't have trigger stops like your pumps do. | |||
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It's "technically" illegal here as well. I think the fire marshal can fine you. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
We have at least one state that does not allow self-service at the gas pump (Oregon?). flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Thank you Very little |
New Jersey as well | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado |
NJ too, unless they changed that in the last couple of years. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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I believe you're technically responsible for cleanup costs of any significant quantity of fuel spilled while you didn't monitor the fueling process. ------------- $ | |||
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