Jersey girls don't pump gas

[akhenaten]

I guess I'll be the first to admit this........ If I pull into a station where you can pump your own, or pay more to have it pumped, well, I'm paying more. Pumping gas is like dusting, I only do it when forced to.

You can be an honorary Jersey Girl if you'd like....

 

[crazyme5kids]

Well, I did marry a Jersey boy....

 

[akhenaten]

Well, I did marry a Jersey boy....

me too!! lol

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

I just got back from NJ an hour ago (home to RI), and I have to say, I love having someone pump my gas. (I didn't read this whole thread...what should have been a 4 1/2 hour trip turned into 6 1/2 hours and I'm beat and heading to bed.) As the full serve stations started disappearing in this area (RI/MA), I'd drive a little further to a full-serve. Now, full serve stations are few and far between, and I pump my own about 95% of the time; there's one full serve fairly close, but overpriced, so I avoid it; there's another with prices about the same or LOWER than full serve, and sometimes I drive a little ways further than my destination to get it pumped for me there, especially on an ice cold New England day. What can I say...it's a treat.

Oh...and I was born and raised in NJ till I was 15; I moved to New England before I started driving, but I guess I'm still just a NJ girl at heart.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I wouldn't even know how to let someone else pump my gas for me.

First off, I'd assume anyone approaching my car at a gas station was going to rob me or try and smudge up my windows with newspapers and water in a squirt bottle.

I would then be forced to go all crazy on the poor person and then they'd be too scared to start their job. So that would leave me at a gas station in New Jersey with no gas. No thanks!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

I wouldn't even know how to let someone else pump my gas for me.

First off, I'd assume anyone approaching my car at a gas station was going to rob me or try and smudge up my windows with newspapers and water in a squirt bottle.

I would then be forced to go all crazy on the poor person and then they'd be too scared to start their job. So that would leave me at a gas station in New Jersey with no gas. No thanks!

Wow, I'm really glad I don't live in a place where I think anyone trying to come up to me is going to rob me.

 

[ford family]

What happens in NJ regarding prepayment? Do you give the cash to the pump attendant first?
One of the strangest aspects of Florida vacations is having to go into the petrol station, make a guess at how much the hired car will take and then hand that over to the cashier. Then, after fuelling the car, you have to go back into the cashier to collect your change. How does that work in NJ or is the prepayment thing confined to the badlands of Florida?

ford family

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

What happens in NJ regarding prepayment? Do you give the cash to the pump attendant first?
One of the strangest aspects of Florida vacations is having to go into the petrol station, make a guess at how much the hired car will take and then hand that over to the cashier. Then, after fuelling the car, you have to go back into the cashier to collect your change. How does that work in NJ or is the prepayment thing confined to the badlands of Florida?

ford family

Why would the patron be the person paying for a hired car's gas?

 

[gina2000]

How would you know that? You never leave your car!

I'm having this vision........

Vivian Leigh as Jersey Scarlett O'hara...pulls into a gas station..."twiddle-dee-dee...ah nevah pump mah gas/ ah dont leave mah car. i am a delicate feemale. That's whay ah married...the ONLY reason ah married...to have a man pump mah gas.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Enjoy your little ha-ha. I never said any of those things.

You see, you don't get it. No one in NJ leaves the car to use a credit card. We give the credit card to the gas attendant. So in my world, every time I travel, we either pay cash or use a credit card. I can't answer if others use a debit card but since we don't swipe, we don't have a place to put in a security/access code. All of our stations list two prices for each grade of gas - cash or credit prices.

So please forgive my obvious ignorance. Your petty humor astounds me. All because I have no desire to learn how to pump gas? "A man" as you so eloquently put it, doesn't pump gas in NJ either unless he works at a gas station.

 

[gina2000]

What happens in NJ regarding prepayment? Do you give the cash to the pump attendant first?
One of the strangest aspects of Florida vacations is having to go into the petrol station, make a guess at how much the hired car will take and then hand that over to the cashier. Then, after fuelling the car, you have to go back into the cashier to collect your change. How does that work in NJ or is the prepayment thing confined to the badlands of Florida?

ford family

We don't have prepayment. All we do is tell them a dollar amount or to fill it up. We settle up when the transaction is concluded.

From my travels, prepayment exists everywhere people pump their own gas. If you pay by cc, you can swipe. If you pay with cash, you have to go into the store, arrange payment, fill the car up, go back into the store to collect change, and then carry on. I could be wrong but that's just what I've experienced.

 

[ford family]

Why would the patron be the person paying for a hired car's gas?

Sorry, that would be a rental car in American English.

ford family

 

[Uuaww]

No wonder no one from New Jersey vacations here... Not only do we have to pump our own gas, but paying at the pump isn't at option, credit cards are rarely accepted, and rust covers most pumps. haha.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

And I always pay cash for my gas.....and I don't have to leave the warmth and comfort of my car....

You guys crack me up. Why can't I like not pumping gas? Why do I have to declare my independent spirit by grabbing a gas nozzle? In NJ I don't have to and I don't want to. Oh, and for the record, DH hates pumping gas also. I'm not sure what that makes him, but he's definitely not a Jersey girl.....

Seriously! I enjoy being in NJ and having someone else pumping my gas. I'm no more or less "independent" when I'm there than I am living in RI and pumping my own.

I'm convinced. There's not a single topic on the DIS that people can't turn into an argument.

Women in 48 states pump their own gas-the jersey girls on this thread sound simply horrified to ever having to do so. Sounds like the Women's Movement took a huge leap backwards in new jersey.

Oh, JB, cut the drama. I haven't seen one "horrified" woman. And yeah, THAT would be the measure of the status of the "Women's Movement"...pumping gas in another state.

 

[MouseketeerOvaHere]

Sounds like a bunch of prima donna's to me.

 

[J3nn78]

Jersey Girl here too. I LOVE not having to pump my own, but I would never base that on who I would or would not vote for in an election

 

[BelleWDW]

You see, you don't get it. No one in NJ leaves the car to use a credit card. We give the credit card to the gas attendant. So in my world, every time I travel, we either pay cash or use a credit card. I can't answer if others use a debit card but since we don't swipe, we don't have a place to put in a security/access code. All of our stations list two prices for each grade of gas - cash or credit prices.

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The modern"state of the Art" gas pumps in the other 48 states asks if its credit or debit when you swipe. Its a computer screen .

People that pay cash , usually go inside with a $10 or $20 bill and put that much in the car. I find its mostly people who cant get credit-or dont have a bank account who pay cash-from what I see.

But from what the Op originally said-that she didnt vote fro a particular polititian because he might make her pump gas-is simply silly

 

[ford family]

The modern"state of the Art" gas pumps in the other 48 states asks if its credit or debit when you swipe. Its a computer screen .

People that pay cash , usually go inside with a $10 or $20 bill and put that much in the car. I find its mostly people who cant get credit-or dont have a bank account who pay cash-from what I see.
But from what the Op originally said-that she didnt vote fro a particular polititian because he might make her pump gas-is simply silly

Or tourists who have it drilled into them not to use a credit card in the US because of the high level of cloning.
We spend at least three months a year in the US and the only places we use a credit card are WDW to settle the room bill and Alamo. Everything else is cash.

ford family

 

[eliza61]

Love never having to pump my gas.

 

[MouseketeerOvaHere]

There is a button on the pump that says "call for assistance."

Disabled users here in GA are to blow their horn and the attendant will come out to assist the driver.

 

[mhsjax]

Sounds like a bunch of prima donna's to me.

True, and then people wonder why New Jersey has such a bad rap.