Jersey girls don't pump gas

[bballmom56]

First, I'd hardly call filling a vase with flowers a "physical" job. Second, no one with a real physical job has said that they CAN'T get out of the car and pump their own gas...just that they enjoy NOT.

Is that what Belle calls a physical job? Please. Spend a day with me and you will see what physical is! Part of my day yesterday was moving sixteen 50 lb bags of feed to our feed room. And that isn't the only heavy lifting. Plus when the weather is below 40 degrees like it was yesterday, that takes a toll. Today the weather was MUCH nicer.

Thanks MaryAnn for defending me!

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

Is that what Belle calls a physical job? Please. Spend a day with me and you will see what physical is! Part of my day yesterday was moving sixteen 50 lb bags of feed to our feed room. And that isn't the only heavy lifting. Plus when the weather is below 40 degrees like it was yesterday, that takes a toll. Today the weather was MUCH nicer.

Thanks MaryAnn for defending me!

As one Northern NJ girl (born and raised) to another, you're welcome.

 

[CapeMayMommy]

All things being equal a NJ station has a 16.5 cent advantage in price every day. Other factors make the price different as well. In NYC regulations do not allow for 18 wheelers to deliver gas so they have to use smaller trucks which increases the cost. Also since no new gas stations have been built in the market for a long time sellers can charge a premium. The real value of selling more gas at self serve sites is the amount foot traffic it drives into the C store. Margins on the sale of cokes and twinkies are north of 30%. Gas staitions in NJ would like self serve simply because they would generate more business in the store thus making more money for their businesses.

When I moved from northern New Jersey to southern New Jersey I was introduced to the concept of a "Super Wawa". There are no Wawa's in northern New Jersey.

Wawa is a convience store. Super Wawa is a convience store with a gas station. The store is always busy. ALWAYS--24 hours of gas, 24 hours of coffee, chips, breakfast sandwiches, subs, donuts, milk, ect. The stores and gas stations are always clean and the staff always looks good. (not scruffy)

I think that the difference is that it is a convience store with a gas station, rather than a gas station with a convience store. The gas station is just a sideline.

I think it's definately possible for a gas attendent to have full benefits including tuition reimbursement for college.

 

[locolala]

Is that what Belle calls a physical job? Please. Spend a day with me and you will see what physical is! Part of my day yesterday was moving sixteen 50 lb bags of feed to our feed room. And that isn't the only heavy lifting. Plus when the weather is below 40 degrees like it was yesterday, that takes a toll. Today the weather was MUCH nicer.

Thanks MaryAnn for defending me!

Ew. I hate hauling feed almost as much as I hate hauling hay. Before I got pregnant I only weighed 125, so moving haybales was torture for me. I'd rather muck 40 stalls.

 

[tevagirl]

Hey Exit Zero Neighbor!!

Hi there Neighbor!

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

There are no Wawa's in northern New Jersey.

Just quoting that because I thought it sounded funny. (Note my signature. )

Does Michael Phelps live in NJ? The reason I ask is because some of my DS's friends said they saw Michael Phelps at a Wawa last weekend.

 

[bballmom56]

Ew. I hate hauling feed almost as much as I hate hauling hay. Before I got pregnant I only weighed 125, so moving haybales was torture for me. I'd rather muck 40 stalls.

LOL, yeah, I really don't mind mucking the stalls. I just wish I had someone to empty the wheelbarrow! When it's full, I have to push it uphill to dump in the spreader.

And hauling the feed is in addition to hauling hay bales to the hay room, lugging water in 5 gallon containers (40 lbs. each) out to the field horses, then mucking 13 large stalls, emptying, scrubbing and refilling water buckets (2 per stall), sweeping 2 aisles, turning out all the horses, and bringing them back in 7 hours later.

And yes, I was that size before I was pregnant, too. Now, 25 years later, I swear those feed bags seem heavier. And I have to put 400 bales of hay each year into my own barn, so when we get hay at the farm I work at, I bow out of that job!

 

[Just Jan]

I haven't had time to read the whole thread, but wanted to add...
I pump my own gas, usually at Cumbies....But......
On the way to work this morning I HAD to stop for gas. The station I pulled into was Full Service. I giggled because this thread immediately came to mind.

 

[JerseyJanice]

When I moved from northern New Jersey to southern New Jersey I was introduced to the concept of a "Super Wawa". There are no Wawa's in northern New Jersey.

Wawa is a convience store. Super Wawa is a convience store with a gas station. The store is always busy. ALWAYS--24 hours of gas, 24 hours of coffee, chips, breakfast sandwiches, subs, donuts, milk, ect. The stores and gas stations are always clean and the staff always looks good. (not scruffy)

My son won a $10 Wawa gift card on the Seaside Heights boardwalk this summer. We stopped at a Super Wawa on Route 37 on the drive back to the Parkway to spend it on gas. As you said, there are no Wawa's up here where we could have spent it.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

Does "Wawa" MEAN something? Who thought that name up? I'd feel a little silly saying I'm going to Wawa...or is it "to the Wawa"?

It's funny how odd store names sound in different areas of the country. When we moved from NJ (where we had A&Ps and a new Grand Union) to MA, where there was a "Fernandez", I thought "What the heck kind of name is that for a supermarket?" Then I think there was a "Food Lion" (?) in Virginia Beach. Funny.

 

[JerseyJanice]

I always thought the "Wawa" stood for something Native American, but what I don't know.

The most common convenience store around here is Quick Chek. It sells awesome coffee, but no gas.

 

[bballmom56]

Yes, Quick Chek is the hot new place around here. Each new one they put in is bigger and nicer than the last. And all ours have gas stations attached. Great variety of foods available. Sandwiches are really good.

 

[Buckalew11]

I think the Wawa is a fun thing to say. But I would, wouldn't I? lol

When I lived in NJ we had Cumberland Farms.

We have Food Lion here also.

 

[Tweevil]

I always thought the "Wawa" stood for something Native American, but what I don't know.

The most common convenience store around here is Quick Chek. It sells awesome coffee, but no gas.

Wawa is supposed to be the Native American word for Canadian goose in flight. There is the goose in the logo.
I have to ask my nieces if they knew that's what it means - they are members of the local tribal group.

Got my coffee and gas there tonight.