Some guy threw a fit today because I was smoking a cig while pumping gas.

[LeftyFingerPop]

God, have we become a nation of uptight jerks?

[Deja Q]

1. No. Despite the arsoning of Wal Street, people don't like getting burned.

[Tom Kitten]

2. How long was the ash?

Some people get really uptight about people who have cigarettes with a really long ash...when and where is it going to drop?

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Let me guess

Some jerk put must have put "NO Smoking" signs all over the place, forgot to add "Just kidding" in fine print.

[Danger Mouse]

4. Seriously. Nobody seems to like explosive gasoline fires anymore.

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. Yea, really. What's up with that? LOL

[BlueJazz]

5. I was burned over 60 percent of my body by a Guy smoking while filling up.

[LeftyFingerPop]

6. I'm really sorry to hear that.

What happened to the other guy?

[BlueJazz]

10. He beat the shit out of me ...because I have this awfull habit of Lying.

...about getting burned.

[BlueJazz]

11. That wasn't funny. You're an Asshole....making people feel bad about posting.

[BlueJazz]

12. I'm sorry..I was watching "My own worst Enemy" and got carried away.

[orleans]

115. omg! who the fuck are you talking to?

stop it!

(it's always spooky when people talk to themselves when they're not alone!)

[Radical Activist]

113. I cracked up. n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. People are completely unreasonable. I was doing heart surgery on a guy once,

and he was all "Dude, you've had like 30 Martinis in the last three hours, you're not cutting me!" and I was like "WYeffr fhferk EIHYIHGGGR$RR WHgfgour!!!!!!!!" and he was all "What?! I'm not letting you touch me!" and I was all "Yargfrggar hurffertls HRIHYGJKHG@!!!!!" at him and shit and he was totally all in my face, so finally I just popped a cap in his ass.

Fucking Christ, that's barely even 2 liters of gin.

[nomorenomore08]

15. "So finally I just popped a cap in his ass..."

Seriously, that is like the perfect ending to any anecdote!

[PVnRT]

54. What a jerk. I'm sure you were, like, totally cool to do the surgery

Fucking pansy-ass.

[Rabrrrrrr]

77. Oh, dude, I was totally cool to do the surgery. I was only drinking with one hand

I mean, seriously, like how many hands does it take to do surgery? I've totally, like, operated on people when I've been way more totally shitfaced than that and stuff, and they mostly worked. I mean, fuck,what do they want - hundred percent success or something? I better they never did that well in, like, school and shit, so why they harpin' on me and shit?

People are just fuckin' unthankful, that's all I'm sayin', you know what I'm saying.

[applegrove]

8. That was me!! Seriously I was a smoker and I never smoked at gas station. Are you well?

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. I'm good thank you....

How are you?

I have never smoked at a gas station either.

I actually had a guy once flick a cig on the ground within 10 feet of me pumping gas. Too close for my comfort. I told him he best step on that in a hurry...he responds "Oh yeah....right"...then he steps on it.

I also can't stand when people use their cell phone while pumping gas...I know the risk is low here, but there is a sign that says to turn the phones off, so I will remind people of that fact.

[applegrove]

13. Never realized that about cell phones. Then again I don't have a car so why would I.

[rug]

14. Were you near any birds?

[pokerfan]

16. I once told a guy that he shouldn't smoke next to the gas pumps

so he walked about fifty feet away and finished his cig while standing next to a gigantic propane tank.

Yeah, the risk is probably small but I'm a safety guy. I didn't bother to say anything further as I figured the blast would have probably just knocked me down.

[Z_I_Peevey]

67. I saw a propane explosion once--WOW--

took out two buildings and a truck, killed one man and shook foundations for at least a mile in all directions. Not something to take lightly, nosirree bob.

[SarahB]

17. Sometimes,

But we certainly do have a nation of self absorbed, dumbasses.

[LeftyFingerPop]

18. I agree 100%...

How dare, he, infringe upon, my God given right, to pump, gas while, smoking.

Sometimes, people, act, like they, are the only ones who need, to, pump, gas.

[Deep13]

19. About the same time we decided that we don't like exploding.

Assuming you are not being ironic, He was right. You are wrong. Gasoline is not flammable, but its vapors are explosive. So the mere fact that you were not in contact with liquid gasoline is immaterial. You could have caused an explosion of gasoline vapor and took the other guy with you. There is a reason it says "no smoking" on those pumps.

[LeftyFingerPop]

22. Everyone knows that "no smoking" signs are to be ignored.

[Deep13]

25. Yes, only the feelings of addicts should be respected.

[LeftyFingerPop]

32. Nice photoshop....

that stuff doesn't really happen.

[Deep13]

33. Of course not.

Who could possibly think that gasoline vapors will explode if exposed to a smoldering fire? After all, when gasoline fumes are introduced into an engine cylinder and a spark is applied, nothing happens.

[LeftyFingerPop]

34. Listen...I've placed a lit match into the pump nozzle while dispensing gas...

nothing happened. Contrary to the urban legends floating around, it is in fact very difficult to get stuff to explode.

[Deep13]

40. It only has to happen once. nt

[LeftyFingerPop]

41. What only has to happen once? I'm not sure I am following you here. n/t

[Deep13]

43. It may be rare, but the results of a single fire are catastrophic.

When you say it has never happened to you, don't you mean it has never happened to you YET? Anyway, Federal law requires not smoking at the gas pump. Is it REALLY too much to ask of you to go without smoking for the five minutes it takes to fill up? How important is that cigarrette anyway?

[LeftyFingerPop]

46. What are you saying here?

[Deep13]

49. I realize some people on this website...

...think it is funny to say something bizzarre and then sit back and watch the fireworks or to engage people in a fake conversation. Frankly, it strikes me as a mean-spirited variety of humor and I don't really appreciate being made a Costello to your Abbot.

[LeftyFingerPop]

51. What website?

[JVS]

63. !

[Book Lover]

69. ...

[LeftyFingerPop]

70. Right, so that means that until it gets into your fuel injectors, it is totally harmless.

[slutticus]

85. Bwahahaha

Best reply I've seen all day

[Odin2005]

20. Gee, maybe he didn't want to get bown up?

Hmmm, a lit cigarette in close proximity and a flammable, volatile liquid; who sees the problem here?

[LeftyFingerPop]

21. What's the problem?

I have been smoking around gasoline all my life.

Some people are just alarmists.

[Odin2005]

23. Some people don't like to tempt fate?

[LeftyFingerPop]

24. How is that tempting fate?

I never gotted blowed up.

[Odin2005]

26. That don't mean you won't get blown up in the future.

[LeftyFingerPop]

29. You are over reacting.

[Odin2005]

78. Being prudent is over-reacting?

[LeftyFingerPop]

81. Yes.

[slutticus]

86. may i steal this for my sigline?

[LeftyFingerPop]

87. Of course.

[snooper2]

27. You know what happens when you throw a cig

In a gallon of gas?


It goes out


OPEN FLAME + VAPORS = IGNITION


not rocket science people, well- for some it is

[LeftyFingerPop]

28. I think it is a myth that the danger is that prevalent...

If it were that bad, they wouldn't even sell cigarettes at gas stations.

[snooper2]

31. Something really funny...

Mythbusters were trying to see if they could blowup a car like in the movies...

( shoot at car- hole in gas tank- car takes off- you light the gas and watch the fire chase the car- BOOM! )


It was funny as Jamie was driving with his foot on the brake, the fire moved at like 4 mph

[Capn Sunshine]

76. actually Phil my Boy

gas vapors created by fillups are heavier than air, so they are congreated at your feet.
If you smoked with your toes, it might be more dangerous

This guy is clearly smoking as he blows up his vehicle. Caught on station surveillance camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsJ19sy3JI

[LeftyFingerPop]

80. That's a photoshop.

[Capn Sunshine]

94. No, it's totally real

My brother's girlfriend's uncle knows the guy that took it

[Capn Sunshine]

111. everyone should watch this btw

[Heidi]

109. Who says he doesn't smoke with his toes?

I know philboy to be a multi-talented man.

[NoPasaran]

117. You BASTARD!!!!

[Inchworm]

30. Some people are just all caught up with modern rules

Pfft, this entire region would not exist had the danger actually been ligitimate.

I pumped gas and did oil changes for a year or so and I think I constantly smoked then too.

Stupid rules. Oh yea! That distant scream you hear late at night... it's a skunkape.

[LeftyFingerPop]

83. Yes, these people have a general uptightness about them.

[Arugula Latte]

35. What's wrong with people? They don't like third degree burns anymore?

[LeftyFingerPop]

36. That's a myth about the burns.

[GreenPartyVoter]

38. I wouldn't be too sure. Have you ever turned on the gas on your stove, waited a few seconds and

_then_ lit the burner? WHOOSH! I did that just the other night. Not on purpose, but still.

Granted that's propane and not gasoline. But if gasoline vapors can act like that, I don't want to take any chances. It was really scary watching that fireball roll out from under my frying pan and right at me.

[LeftyFingerPop]

39. For the last time, gasoline is, in fact, EXTREMELY difficult to ignite...

Please refer to snopes. com.

That is one of the reasons they are thinking of switching all cars in the US to natural gas by the end of 2009. It ignites much easier than gasoline.

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. There is a difference though, between a cigarette trying to light a

puddle of gas and a lighter setting off gas vapors. So technically, you are right but there is still some risk there if one were to light up at the pump, as documented by the occasional news story about people accidentally setting their cars on fire.

[LeftyFingerPop]

47. I'm not sure that I know what you mean.

[GreenPartyVoter]

56. I mean that it's still possible to set off gas and gas fumes with a cig, although

it's more likely if you light up with a lighter as you pump, as the gas fumes in the air could very well could ignite because the temp of the lighter is hot enough to set off them off.

"Gas thieves use cigarette lighter at the wrong time"
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=91078

"Gas in water bottle ignites, kills driver"
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3737/is_/ai_n13...

"Woman Smoking While Pumping Gas Ignites Fire, Burns Self And Car"
http://www.local6.com/news/9979636/detail.html

The physics of smoking around gasoline:
http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae1.cfm

[LeftyFingerPop]

57. I think I understand what you are saying, but the gas we put in our cars...

is the liquid kind, not the vapor kind. Now that would be a problem if it were the vapor kind of gas.

[GreenPartyVoter]

59. There are still some vapors whenever you fill your car. Evaporation and all that.

[LeftyFingerPop]

60. That's like saying that water gives off a vapor.

[GreenPartyVoter]

64. Yes, but if it's enough that there's a even a chance of ignition? I think that's

why they play it safe and say don't smoke at the gas station.

[LeftyFingerPop]

65. Here in New York, up until 1987, they had ashtrays on top of the pumps...

That was before everyone got all uptight about everything.

[PVnRT]

52. LIQUID gasoline is difficult to ignite

Fixed that for you.

[LeftyFingerPop]

53. I know. That's what I'm saying.

[pokerfan]

71. Really?

That is one of the reasons they are thinking of switching all cars in the US to natural gas by the end of 2009. It ignites much easier than gasoline.

They're thinking about changing all cars to LNG next year because there aren't enough fuel station fires?

[LeftyFingerPop]

82. No, don't be silly.

[kwassa]

44. Great chain-yanking.

Some might call it trolling, but not I.

[LeftyFingerPop]

50. I'm not sure I understand the "chain- yanking" part.

[kwassa]

55. You stick a chain into the gas tank, drop in a lit cigarette, ...

and see how many people you can get to go fishing for it.

See?

[LeftyFingerPop]

58. Yes, I think I see what you are saying now.

[Writer]

45. And anti-social behavior is so en vogue now! n/t

[LeftyFingerPop]

48. I know!

I was minding my own business...he should have left me alone.

[Lucian]

61. I wonder why?

[LeftyFingerPop]

62. I know...I still can't figure it out...

I think it has to do with the general "uptightness" of society today.

[krispos42]

66. You must have missed the sign...

"If your life isn't worth anything, gasoline is"

[LeftyFingerPop]

68. I might have missed it...

My eyesight is really bad...I can't see 2 feet in front of my face. If they ever find out I don't have a driver's license, I'm screwed.

[LanternWaste]

72. You're a prime target for the...

You're a prime target for the "Nanny Staters" now, you know...

[LeftyFingerPop]

73. What are they?

[Hangingon]

74. It is illegal here to smoke while pumping gas.

We have become a nation of careless people?

[LeftyFingerPop]

79. Illegal?

[Hangingon]

96. Yes - illegal

as in not legal or contrary to law. Can cause an explosion and/or fire that would be dangerous to other people. Looks like you ran into somebody with a brain.

[LeftyFingerPop]

97. Like I said...

I've been doing this all of my life. I am 50 years old, and I've never had a problem.

[S n o w b a l l]

75. ....

[doc03]

84. There was a guy here just a few days ago

smoking while filling his car. Anyway the tank filled up and some gas splashed out and caught his shirt sleeve on fire, luckily another quick thinking customer put the flames out with the windshield squeegee water. Everything turned out Ok for the victim he wasn't burn seriously but the Police did charge him for carrying an illegal firearm.

[LeftyFingerPop]

88. Now that got me laughing...

[NoPasaran]

118. That's odd

In school they always claimed that if you threw water at a gas fire, all it did was spread the fire. And squeegee waster? That stuff is so nasty I wouldn't be surprised if it blowed up itself.

[cboy4]

89. I like it when people throw their butts out at night and the

glowing ember narrowly misses dropping in through my sun roof.

[LeftyFingerPop]

90. I always throw mine out the window....

Saves me from having to clean out the ashtray.

I've never heard of a lit cigarette actually falling through an open sunroof. I think that is another urban legend.

[cboy4]

91. That's the Republican spirit!

LOL

[LeftyFingerPop]

92. Nothing wrong with keeping a clean ashtray.

[cboy4]

93. Nope. Nothing wrong with being a Republican either.

HA

[LeftyFingerPop]

95. I am a Democrat.

I just like to keep the interior of my SUV tidy.

[cboy4]

100. Oh you're right. Litterers are renown for their concern about

cleanliness.

What was I thinking?

[LeftyFingerPop]

101. Cigarettes biodegrade.

They pose absolutely no hazard to the environment. They are made of all natural materials.

[cboy4]

102. I know. I say they same thing when I throw my banana peels

out my sunroof on the freeway during the evening commute.

[LeftyFingerPop]

103. Now that is just wrong...those things are slippery.

[cboy4]

104. Not my problem.

lol

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

110. Sorry about that

[sarcasmo]

98. It's not the smartest thing to do.

[LeftyFingerPop]

99. How come?

[Heidi]

105. "Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours."

[LeftyFingerPop]

106. Nice photoshop.

[Heidi]

107. Mornin',

Queens.

Happy Wednesday, philboy, and thanks for this thread. It cracks me up!

[LeftyFingerPop]

108. Good morning Heidi...

and Happy Wednesday to you.

I'm glad you like the thread...it went places I never imagined.

[Heidi]

112. Kick.

[LeftyFingerPop]

116. Thanks. These are my RIGHTS we are talking about here.

[Heidi]

119. That's EXACTLY what I was thinkin' when I kicked it.

Kinda.

[Radical Activist]

114. Was he on his way to dinner at Olive Garden and was his dog on a leash?

a-holes.