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As if filling up the tank of your car isn’t painful enough with the rising cost of gasoline, most gas stations also engage in the practice of putting huge concrete blocks or posts right where you open your car door at:
These concrete blocks are placed right at door level. You can’t park any farther away from them or you will not be able to reach the hose to the tank of your car. It does not matter what kind of car you drive – I’ve had this problem with sedans, trucks, mini-vans, you name it!
Does anyone know what purpose these serve other than to make someone open their door and say “Shit! Why is that thing there?” and then scramble to make sure they didn’t scratch their car door? Do you do this too, or am I the stupid one for not remembering it is there? (Though it seems everytime I am at the gas station I also see everyone else with the same problem!)
Add this one to the list of “things I would like to change about the world”.
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Move to New Jersey. We are not allowed to pump our gas. We just sit in the car while someone does it for us. We also have some of the cheapest gas in the nation.
Annoying as those blocks are, they are there for your safety. Those blocks are there to keep a car from running into the gas pumps. I worked in gas stations and truck stops for many years, and I had the misfortune of seeing an out-of-control car hit a gas pump that wasn’t protected. Ever see a geyser of gasoline? It wasn’t pretty. Very dangerous, too.
You are right Sprucemoose, they are supposedly there for our safety, it would be scary for a car to wreck into one. But I think there are more effective ways of doing it – i don’t think those barriers like in my pic even do a good job of preventing catastrophe.
coops i love new jersey.
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Luckily we don’t have those stuff here. Must be really sad to have those!
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