Bags on Gass pump = NO GAS!!!

[Namrepus221]

Alright... anyone here that know anything about chemistry knows that Fire plus Gasoline equals BAD!!!

So today, when 3 bikers told me that one of our pumpside trash bins was smoking because someone emptied an ashtray into them, I did what anyone who knows anything about anything would do.

I shut the pumps off for safety.

of course I have to go outside and place bags on all of the pump handels to make sure people odnt' use them.

Of course one person thought that the bag had to mean that it was there to keep the pump handle fresh or something and just removed it and attempted to pump anyways... Of course getting on the intercom and saying "Our pumps are shut off due to a fire incident earlier today" ment "Just leave and dont' replace the bag you removed"

5 or 6 people tried pumping gas on that pump. Nearly all of them understood that we couldn't do anything about it.

the one that didn't kept saying "Can't you just put them back on for me?" "Can't you make an exception for me?" 'I dont' understand why they are off, why are they off?"

I admit I got a little terse with that person, but apologized profusely for it and told him that I couldn't because the entire system was down and it wasn't possible at all.

God... some people's children...

[JustADude]

If they got insistent, I'd just say "Okay, you know how in movies, if there's a leaky pump and someone flicks a cigarette at it the gas station it goes BOOM, really big? That's one of the few things in Hollywood that ISN'T an exaggeration. Capiche?"

[icmedia]

At one of the gas stations I was lucky enough to jockey, I noticed a customer pumping gas with a lit cigarette in their mouth. Following protocol I promptly stopped their pump and notified them via intercom that they needed to extinguish their flame. The guy argued with me for a good 10 minutes, insisting that I was an idiot and that a cigarette couldn't catch a gas pump on fire. His logic? "It's METAL, STUPID. A CIGARETTE CAN'T BURN METAL."

Yeah, but it can sure make the fumes coming off that metal pump go boom, buddy. Needless to day, neither of us left the station that night in a good mood.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=6820935

I wonder if your SC is related to this Darwin award contender?

[Dreamstalker]

Part of me wants to say WTF was she thinking, but part of me is not surprised at all given where it happened...

[ThePhoneGoddess]

Hey now Dreamstalker, I lived in new Mexico for a long time and loved it there. Not all rural people are stupid and inbred.

[Becks]

Sometimes I think we really should let these people harm themselves, since they're so hell-bent on doing so.

[Dreamstalker]

I didn't really mean it in that sense, more in the "don't read signs" sense. You'd be surprised (or maybe not) at some of the things I saw while out there for college.

The NM DMV did tell me on my second application for a permit (first one expired) "You can drive, just not legally" and the "you can drive" part was emphasized.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Sometimes I think we really should let these people harm themselves, since they're so hell-bent on doing so.

Sadly, our government doesn't allow for Natural Selection.

Why do you think we have all these warning labels on everything under the sun?

It's because somewhere . . . someone was stupid enough to try what they weren't supposed to do.

[Pagan]

Part of me wants to say WTF was she thinking, but part of me is not surprised at all given where it happened...

I was thinking it was in Espanola until I looked at the location.

Hey now Dreamstalker, I lived in new Mexico for a long time and loved it there. Not all rural people are stupid and inbred.

No, just the ones that wind up plastered all over the national news.
(PhoneGoddess, where and how long did you live in NM?)

The NM DMV did tell me on my second application for a permit (first one expired) "You can drive, just not legally" and the "you can drive" part was emphasized.

Didn't you know could do that? Along with getting insurance to get your car registered and then immediately cancelling it?

Sometimes, I'm embarrassed to be a native New Mexican.

[Dreamstalker]

I once heard that NM has the highest percentage of uninsured and/or illegal drivers in the country...

My dad was bringing me back to school one day after we went out for lunch. We're at the 4-way intersection where the road through campus crosses a main drag. Light changes, we go, and this little shitbox with no front tag and a tinted cover on the rear one (isn't that illegal?) screams through against the light (neither of us even saw him at the intersection) and we almost T-bone him A case of soda in the back committed suicide but we were able to stop in time.

It must be some universal law of the uninsured, try to hit (or be hit by) something bigger/more expensive than you.

[Pagan]

Light changes, we go, and this little shitbox with no front tag and a tinted cover on the rear one (isn't that illegal?) screams through against the light (neither of us even saw him at the intersection) and we almost T-bone him

Actually, there's nothing in New Mexico law that says anything about them. The plates just need to be clearly visible and free of obstruction. That's where the problem comes in in ABQ. Some of them are supposed to make them unreadable for the red light/speed cams, but not to the naked eye. Naturally, the city (esp. APD) claim that the robotic eyes are "the same thing".

I don't have to deal with the stupid red light cams anymore. I just wish they'd start enforcing the "no talking on your cell phone while driving" more. That's the most terrifying thing around here: A soccer mom trying to back and turn the way-too-big for her SUV with one hand because she's got a phone shoved in her other ear. But that's ok, she's the only one in the parking lot anyway!

A-n-n-n-d back to our regularly scheduled Topic!

[Sir Spaniard the 12th]

At one of the gas stations I was lucky enough to jockey, I noticed a customer pumping gas with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

Just once? I see it happen here at least once a month..... Most I've seen on a single shift is 4. 2 a week is a regular occurance....

[Rapscallion]

Sometimes I think we really should let these people harm themselves, since they're so hell-bent on doing so.

With explosives, though, it's the people they take out with them that worry me.

Rapscallion

[Becks]

The NM DMV did tell me on my second application for a permit (first one expired) "You can drive, just not legally" and the "you can drive" part was emphasized.

Lovely. Just lovely.

Why do you think we have all these warning labels on everything under the sun?

To give people cheap laughs?

With explosives, though, it's the people they take out with them that worry me.

Good point. That didn't occur to me, for whatever reason.