This is what happens when people from Oregon or New Jersey travel out of state

[Major Nikon]

[rocktivity]

1. This Jersey girl sat in her car at a gas station in Washington DC for ten minutes

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wondering why there weren't any attendants around!


rocktivity

[Shankapotomus]

2. First time out of NJ for job training

I had to pump my own gas in Marietta Georgia. After sitting in the car waiting for 5 minutes I realized I was supposed to do it myself. I don't attribute this to any skill but I aced it the first and only time. I don't know if I'd be as lucky again. I know my brother didn't fair as well on one of his trips because he was clearly angry and ashamed when he recounted his own experience.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. I remember when the attendants came to clean the wipers and check the air in your tires.

I be ooooooollllllllld!

[Wounded Bear]

4. I be old , too....

I used to DO that job.

[fizzgig]

5. i was so confused the first time i went to oregon

i knew you could get full service, but i had no idea there were places where you were not allowed to pump your own gas.

[pokerfan]

6. guess it's a safety issue

Statute: ORS 480.330
Title: Operation of gasoline dispensing device by public prohibited; aviation fuel exception.
Text: An owner, operator or employee of a filling station, service station, garage or other dispensary where Class 1 flammable liquids, except aviation fuels, are dispensed at retail may not permit any person other than the owner, operator or employee to use or manipulate any pump, hose, pipe or other device for dispensing the liquids into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle or other retail container.

[elleng]

11. I think, in NJ anyway, its a labor/union issue.

[hay rick]

15. It's state law.

It's not a union issue.

[Panasonic]

7. Ha yeah.

My frequent visits to New York has often have side trips to NJ - and I find it very funny is that while most of us are used to getting gas on our own, it's just finding it very odd to see somebody fill their tanks up.

My question is this: does one even tip the guy for servicing you?

[Denninmi]

8. Seriously, you don't pump your own gas in NJ or OR?

I never would have guessed that was still a law anywhere in the US. I think pump your own came to Michigan around the time Ford was President.

[rocktivity]

9. Seriously, you CAN'T -- it's against state law!

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But tipping isn't necessary.


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[elleng]

10. Oregon too???

Daughter, from DC, attended college in Philly, with MANY classmates and friends from NJ, so daughter was always asked to pump gas for them! She LIVES in NJ now, so her kids (far future!) will have to be taught when they visit me in MD!

[Shankapotomus]

12. What happens when you're on the way to a wedding

and you need to get gas? Do they make you pump gas in a tux or wedding dress?

[elleng]

13. Yes, Shank! No personnel to do it!

[Shankapotomus]

14. The barbarians!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I actually FORGOT how to pump gas while I lived in Oregon

between living there with a car for nine years and without a car for ten years.