You Can Now Pump The Gas Yourself In Oregon’s Rural Places, And People’s Reactions Take Stupidity To Another Level
Oregon passed a law at the turn of the year which allows people in rural areas to pump their own gas. So what? Is that it? What do I care? All the above are perfectly understandable reactions to a seemingly mundane piece of legal news, which you wouldn’t expect to make much of a splash outside of the few counties affected.
However, this is a big deal for some Oregonians, many of whom have reacted to the law change with a fury that many outsiders find bizarre, and quite amusing. Scroll down below to check out some of the reactions from the internet at large, and feel free to add your own take on the issue in the comments!
Oregon’s local news channel recently wrote a piece about the change in gas pumping law, which unleashed one of the most entertaining comments threads ever
Some immediately went up in arms
While others shared completely different opinions
Yet the complaints kept coming
The responses to those were even funnier
Do you have your opinion to add? Then do so in the comment section below!
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Share on FacebookAt first, I wasn't sure what the "pumping your own gas" even meant (sorry, not an English language native). Do I understand it correctly, that it's the process of opening the caps on the fuel tank, lifting the pistol (and choosing the right one!) without it spilling, moving it and putting it in your car, pressing a handle to allow the gas to go into the tank, then having to stop it, take it out, put it back on the stand and close both of the caps on the tank? Wow, now, writing it all down, it does seem like a lot of work, I feel so sorry for them!
at first I thought they refer to autogas (LPG). And I could understand somebody not willing to tank LPG to his/her car by herself, as for eg. in my country customers are hardly never allowed to pump LPG by themselves at a station, so maybe it's more complicated or dangerous than pumping gasoline or diesel. But then I realised that they mean gasoline... omg :P Seems I'm risking my life at least twice a month :P
Load More Replies...I....I....didn't even know that a whole state was full service gas. I've never been to such a place. I can hardly believe this is real. Nobody in the state ever pumped their own gas? How is this even possible?
Yep, New Jersey too. Throws them too. Personally, whenever we pass through OR, it freaks me the hell out that I CAN'T pump my own gas.
Load More Replies...I have a feeling there will be a lot of people running out of gas and walking in Oregon.
Load More Replies...I'm legally blind and though I cannot drive a vehicle, I CAN pump gas for my driver!! If a blind person can do it, anyone can! The pumps we have now make it so easy. You don't even have to go INTO the station/store to pay for it anymore either. How could it get any easier??
The only reason I can think of for some people is that Oregon has had it full serve for so long that there are lots of elderly people here that are actually kind of nervous about using the pumps. It's not that they can't learn...of course they can. Oregon (where I live) has VERY harsh weather. The wind is so bad that the windows blow out of the buildings. People can literally be blown over. I'm not joking. There are lots and lots of older people here and they don't have much help. It's a poor area...very kind of hardscrabble. People are acting like they're morons here. Well...some of them are frankly but so what? They are what they are but that doesn't mean that old people need to be made fun of for their lot in life. People love to denigrate others. Not you Molly....I'm just saying there are a hell of a lot of people here who are talking out of their asses. You all might want to step down off of your high horses before someone knocks you off.
Load More Replies...Poor Oregon, pumping your own gas, I guess soon the state will mandate that citizens know how to boil water, change a light bulb and identify a stop sign?
Oregonian here and that's not very nice. I can totally do... the stop sign one.
Load More Replies...Okay, folks, just how spoiled are you? I'm a 75 year old woman with heart problems and arthritis. I have pumped my own gas for many years and never once got any gas on me. I check my own oil, add air to the tires and replace the washer fluid when needed. I can't imagine any adult who is capable of driving a car who can't pump their own gas!!!
I'm 64 and we were raised in a time when we were expected to know how to do basic car maintenance before we could drive a different time.
Load More Replies...I live in Oregon and I'm glad we can pump our own gas now. I hate having to wait for Maynard to saunter out and finish chit chatting with Rufus about the deer he bagged last weekend before he decides to get to my car. It's like everyone thinks we're on manana time here. Granted I live in a very rural area and not everyone is like that here but I've had to get out of my car to prompt the attendant to come over and then he freaks out and tells me it's illegal. Yeah I know but put a fire under it holmes. I've got places to go. Not everyone here is retired or on the government dole.
Do I hate pumping my gas? Why yes I do. Do I have children? Yes I do. Do I pump my own gas? YES! It is a great CONVENIENCE for someone else to pump your gas, but it is just that... a convenience.
Meanwhile in Europe (atleast I think in most countries here?) people have been pumping their own gas for many years without any issues... :P
And in every other place besides Oregon and New Jersey
Load More Replies...Oregonian here. I pumped my own gas for a few decades in California before moving up here. I was a new mom with an infant and it was nice to not have to get out and listen to him scream. 18 years later, I still appreciate someone else pumping my gas and I tip accordingly. Anyway, if they changed the state law so I had to pump it again, I'd do it happily. Why? Because I'm a freakin' adult who is self-sufficient. I follow the law here and let someone else do it. But when I go to California or Washington, I pump my own. When I see the Oregonian comments above, I just shake my head. Only TWO states ban drivers from pumping their own gas and I've yet to see national headlines about people dropping dead from breathing gas fumes or children being neglected because their parents pumped gas, and there's a nifty seal around the gas tank opening to keep fumes to a minimum. Geez.
I didn't know that Oregon was a post-apocalyptic Mad Max hellscape where performing the most menial of tasks puts you in mortal danger. Going to the bathroom must be a nightmare...
I was passing through one time and didn't know the law and I pumped my own gas......the attendant came out and gave me a scolding and took the pump handle from me. Apparently he was a professional and knew the "right" way to pump the gas :).
Years and years ago, my folks were driving from California to Washington. They didn't know they couldn't pump their own gas, so they stopped, dad popped out and grabbed the nozzle. A guy ran out and said, "Sir, you can't pump your own gas." Dad looked at him and said, "Yes, I can... watch."
Load More Replies...I'm from Oregon. Trust me, we're not all characters in Portlandia. Most of us are sensible. Pumping our own gas in rural counties? Well, it's a start...
Yep, sometimes, I forget too. ANd I'm going to write 2017 until april or may ;p
Load More Replies...This is hilarious. Oh no! vagrants will get us!! I laughed out loud at the statement by some saying they would just stand and wait for their gas to get pumped lol
Ah yes, the vagrants. Also known as human beings who have names. 99.999% sure no one could walk ten feet in their shoes and survive. G*d forbid, FORBID, that feeling useful matters to "these" people, even for five minutes, because of course, "they" have no feelings. Or hopes.
Load More Replies...I get a migraine from the smell so I go to a full service station for gas as well as my 2 vehicles are serviced by one of the best,honest mechanics there is, so I support them by getting my gas there.
Load More Replies...It's no joke! Pumping gas is extremely dangerous. Every time I am about to do it, I say goodbye to my loved ones.
It's deadly. You always have to revamp your will before getting out of the car
Load More Replies...I'm pretty old, so I remember when self-serve was a new idea and they were convincing all of us that doing this labor was going to save us all money. Now I guess we've all swallowed the brainwash. I live in Michigan where I pump my own gas. I go to Oregon frequently, where someone else pumps my gas. I don't notice a big savings or any savings at the pump in Michigan where the business is relieved of hiring help. I say Oregon should fight the good fight against standing in the rain pumping their own so that business owners will be able to reduce their payroll. Like a lot of people in Oregon I'd guess, being able to pump my own gas, checkout my own groceries, and use a banking machine, doesn't mean I want to always have to do it. I wouldn't mind some service since I know not getting it wont save me any money. And for someone else it is a job.
You can really tell the youngsters that never grew up with full serve. It makes gas slightly more, but they also checked your air, oil. Back then cars needed more maintenance. It was kind of nice actually, more so for people who didn't like checking their own car etc. It's just another service we've forgone to get the cheapest price, yeah even grocery stores had nice service nothing like walmart or most stores for that matter. You don't know what you never had, which is amazing customer service. Imagine every place you went treated you like royalty, yes all businesses used to be that way.
I remember back in the day when drug stores delivered without asking for your credit card number, when ALL grocery stores had baggers and people who would help you to your car -AND load the groceries in it, when Texacos big ad was "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star..." but that was long ago and far away. There is no such thing as Customer Service nowadays, rudeness is a way of life now. BUT... the complaints that I am reading from these ding-a-lings from Oregon are ludicrous! Fear of transients, possibly smelling like gas, having to leave Junior alone in the car for the 3 minutes it takes to swipe their credit cards and pump a few gallons of gas into their tanks, etc, etc, are just lame excuses. Obviously these people from rural Oregon have never left their comfort zone and travelled across the borders of their backwoods home, because the surrounding states are all self-service! And if you are afraid of possibly smelling like gas? Bring along a pack of baby wipes!
Load More Replies..."The elderly have to pump their own gas" In the other 48 states, when we see an elderly person struggling to pump their gas, we help them.
If you aren't able to pump your own gas without great difficulty because you're so old and feeble you shouldn't be able to drive a multi ton machine that may require split second evasive maneuvers at highway speeds either.
Load More Replies...I live in NZ and i've never even heard of having someone else pump your own gas, and its' so simple why is everyone getting so upset about it, you literally just open the gas tank, put the pump in the tank, fill it up and screw on the cap.
i don't drive. i never have. i do know how to pump gas because as a kid my parents drove. an 8 year old could and has pumped gas.
Switch to an electric car. No more pumping gas. :) You can plug in at home and have a full tank/battery when you wake up in in the morning.
Haha the pump pumps it, you just press the trigger. You Americans can shoot a gun, you can fill up with fuel..
"I don't want to smell like gasoline." It's a gas pump, not a freakin shower!
So funny seeing all the comments saying they are shocked about the "full-service" we have here in Oregon. Give me a break! Full-service? No. A person pumps the gas. You wash your own windshield/windows and check your own oil. I can't stand that we can't just pump our own gas. Oh - and I've yet to witness a transient stalking people at gas stations...
Mmmmh, i don't get it... In France, we all pump our own gas and....well, we seem to have not too much difficulties surviving it. I could act chauvinist as French are supposed to be and say that we are superiorly smart or talented to be able to perform alone this sooooo diffocult task. But I'm sure people in Oregon have an average IQ. They should ba able to do it, even without specific training ;p . I'm sure gas station are going to put the same sign we have to remind people to not smoke or use device that could provoque sparks. Oregon, you'll survive I promis
Growing up on Long Island, NY there used to be full-service gas stations with attendants - I should know because I was one of them - yup, all of 12 years old and I would "volunteer" at my local station to make money to buy my mom her mother's day present! Folks, it ain't no biggie - really!. I still remember when self-service stations came into being. People complained, but they got over it. Even my mother, who still can't program her DVD player, set up her TV set, or go online without help can and does pump her own gas. She has never set herself on fire, drowned in a puddle of Hi-Test or been trampled by rampaging transients! If the idea of actually doing something for yourself that basically the entire world knows how to do - other than YOU - then stop driving and leave your carbon footprint at your front door. Sheesh!
Not sure if it's ever enforced, but I've seen on most all pumps nowadays that it's illegal for anybody under the minimum driving age to pump gas now.
Load More Replies...I was in Oregon in 1990. I think the law had just been passed. It mystified me-and I had several people carefully (and condescendingly) explain to me that this provided jobs for inner city youths. I asked them if they had ever visited the inner city and counted the gas stations/job opportunities, and was usually treated with the tongue-clucking disapproval that I now reserve for Trump supporters.
Well in my country the normal thing to do is not to pump your own gas...so more people can actually have a job.
The only point I agree with is that people slotted under unskilled labour, who don't have the aptitude for other tasks, might end up losing their small way of adding to their income... the rest are a tad...dramatic.
That is the most demeaning and venemous comment I've ever read bt someone agreeing with something!
Load More Replies...if all you people in Oregon hate pumping your own gas so much then WHY don't you ever TIP the gas attendant and show some appreciation! Most attendants are making minimum wage standing outside on blistering hot days, freezing cold days, rainy and snowy days but nobody gives a damn about them until they have to do it themselves!
How do people in Oregon and New Jersey fuel their lawn mowers and snow blowers? Do they have an attendant pump the gas into their canister, then take the canister home and pour it into their machine themselves (effectively pumping the gas via gravity)? Does a gas delivery service drive come and fuel the machines directly? Other? I'm seriously curious.
this was pretty funny, but i have the feeling that the "outrage" in Oregon over this newfound responsibility is a bit overblown. I have seen 5 or 6 different articles on this subject and everyone of them has the same twitter posts from people upset about this. so, like, 5 people. I would venture a guess that some or even all of these people are just trolling.
Why are americans so helpless in simple practical matters? Anything wrong with their education or intellect?
Dear Oregon, comment from the rest of the world, we are confused why can't you fill up your own petrol tanks when the rest of us have been doing it successfully and not blowing up our cities on a regular basis. Yours faithfully the rest of motoring kind
It's a good job you lot don't live in Britain or your tires would grow roots if you waited for somebody to pump fuel in your car, get off your big fat arses and do it yourself you idle buggers.
OMFG !!!!!! And these people are allowed to vote and reproduce? God help us....
As it says "can begin pumping their own gas", that sounds like it's an option, not that you have to do it yourself anyway. In NZ, it's standard to pump your own. There is only one brand of petrol station (Z) that still has forecourt attendants as far as I can tell, but you can still pump your own there. As for the person paying transients (that are apparently terrifying) to pump her gas, how does she pay them, or for the gas, without getting murdered I wonder, if they're such an issue?
I remember I was on vacation in Oregon and stopped at a gas station. This nice guy came running out and asked what kind of gas I wanted. I was so shocked. I told him "I got it" and he said....get this: "You cannot pump your own gas" to which I said: "what?" and he repeated the same. then he said: "it is against the law to pump your own gas in Oregon". I literally was in shock. I had never heard those words before. This was in the 80's which means I have been pumping my own gas for almost 40 years!! And I am still alive and don't smell like gasoline! Yahoo!!
No, she did NOT pay a "transient" (who even uses that word anymore) to pump her gas in Colorado. Either she gave money to a homeless man and sat in her car wondering how long it should take him to pump it as he walked away with her money or she pulled up to a station where an unfortunate attendant made the mistake of checking on her after she sat in her car at the pump for too long. Don't buy that woman's lies - we still pump our own fuel, like responsible vehicle owners, throughout the state of Colorado!
Heh heh heh. By the way, New Jersey is the only other state where self serve gasoline is illegal. Though I've been there a couple of times each time I've gotten out and started to pump myself before being reminded by the attendant.
I think pumping your own gas is for peasants. 29 years in New Jersey, and 4 in Nevada where you're forced to pump your own gas; and I'll never get used to the latter. I don't want to get out of the car, I don't want to deal with the (almost always) faulty machinery, I don't want to touch the stupid thing, or risk smelling like gas when I go somewhere. There's no reason to not pay some young high school kid Minumum wage to convenience everyone's day. I'm sorry, it's just disgusting. I'll ride on empty for days and risk running out of gas before inconveniencing myself to go stand at the stupid pump
Or any other US state that you have to drive through to get from Oregon to New Jersey (which is probably 2500 mile (4000 km) away. Anybody got a car that can go 2500 miles without that icky refueling?
Load More Replies...I don't understand how someone is completely against it. It doesn't take a 'professional' to do this, this is not brain surgery, this isn't HAZMAT stuff. I'm from TN, we pump our own gas, you have to learn how to do that to drive. I moved to Oregon and was completely shocked that these people have no idea how to pump gas. Like, it literally is not only one of the simplest f*****g things to do, but the screen...gives you directions. It really blows my mind that these people are freaking out.
Meanwhile, in the UK- we've been 'pumping our own gas' since... forever, I think. And people wonder why we make fun of ( some ) Americans for being r******d...
... It's a thing to keep MORE people employed... It's not just to make life easier (that's just the added bonus)
Load More Replies...Where I live I haven't even seen a full serve station in a few decades. As a teenager, this is the first thing we learn after obtaining a beginners driving permit, along with checking oil, tire pressure and how to change a flat tire. I feel sorry for the people in Oregon that are unable to do what teenagers/children are able to do where I live!
I am literally 11 and i know how to pump gas without help. These people probably don't even know what they are talking about. They just think "OMG another simple task? ITS GIVING MY OWN CAR FUEL!!! ITS GONNA GIVE ME AUTISM IF I GET OUT OF THE CAR!!!!"
This is extra funny for me, since I'm german and the concept of someone filling my gas tank is so incredibly foreign to me... Besides, its a gas station, not effing Sparta... Your kid is not going to get snatched while you stand literally 5 feet away... And to pay you could, oh I don't know, lock the doors or take the kids with you to the counter... So much about the States confuses the ever-loving eff out of me, but this takes the cake!
My mom was in her 30's when she learned found out that there were states where you have to pump your own gas. Reason why is because the only 2 states that she has lived in are Oregon and New Jersey, the 2 states where you can't pump your own gas. She found out while on a trip to San Francisco and waited 45 minutes for someone to pump her own gas.
Tell you what, don't smoke when you're pumping gas. Now that is a real hazard. And I might as well warn the owners of these here gas pumps. Watch out for non-payers. It doesn't take long for them to get back into the car and drive off, tires screechin' 'n all.
I can just imagine these people accidentally taking a freeway exit that takes them into Vancouver, WA., and then pull into a gas station where they sit for two hours waiting for someone to come and pump their gas, because they are too afraid of getting out of their car to ask why the attendant hasn't shown up.
Jim Bryant's reply.... Brilliant. 😂 Coming from the UK I have never had my gas pumped for me. It's manual all over the UK.
I consider pumping your own gas to be a test. If you are not able to pump your own gas, you should not be driving.
Is this a joke??? Are these people so backward they can't do something so simple for themselves or do they just feel they are above the rest of the country and should be waited on like royalty!! Get a grip of your lives Oregonians jeez!!!
I am 80 and have been pumping my own gas, checking my oil and tires and cleaning my windows for50 of those years.
being an aussie, where "full driveway service" is something of a luxury, i wondered if pumping your own gas meant using some kind of manual pump, like an antiquated well. nope. literally just using a fuel bowser. people scare me sometimes.
I pumped my own gas in Oregon once. I was driving from California, to my sister's house, for Thanksgiving in Washington. I had 4 children in my Audi and it was pouring rain. People looked at me like I had lost my mind. I thought it was just because I had California plates on my car. Lol
This law (and the posts from people who are shattered at the notion that they might have to dispense their own fuel) is really just a means of gathering the names of all of the people who are to be removed from the gene pool for the good of the country. The Republican Party has been making lists from the posts and Nazi Trump voters will be making the rounds of Oregon neighborhoods engaging in "Snowflake Cleansing" any day now. Please be patient and don't run or try to move to Texas or anything.
Very amusing to me, DIFFERENT COUNTRY, DIFFERENT HABITS. In Germany there is only self-service available, and that since the mid-1980s. At first, I do admit, it was kind of a "strange thing", when I had to "do the job" on my own. But you live and learn. - (If someone feels too old, to do the self-service refuel job, I would kindly say, "maybe you are too old, to drive a car in public!"
We have our gas pumped for us in all weather and it costs no more for the service, and WE are backwards? Portland has not changed this, and aren't going to, because we see no point.
How much time do you spend waiting for this "luxury" service?
Load More Replies...I am shocked by these comments. I have been driving every day since I was 16 and have never had anyone pump my gas for me. When you go to a restaurant do you have the waitress cut your steak for you too? You all sound like a bunch of entitled little snowflakes. C
Well I guess if it's not something you're used to doing I can see where it might take all of about 30 seconds of brain activity coupled with frikin common sense but most people with a brain in their head could figure it out! If being afraid to get out of your car because you're worried about the "not so desirable elements around " maybe you should consider relocating. Hey maybe you could get the same person that wipes your b*** for you to go with next time you have to get gas. Just a thought! Good luck with that!
"and who knows what cooties are on there". Just spent some time in hospital where a swab showed positive for MRSA. Nurse said nothing to worry about as nearly everyone carries the virus anyway. It only becomes a health threat if it manages to get into an open wound, or so I was told. Bloody good job the ones complaining don't come to the UK they'd be well and truly screwed. I can't think of any fuel garages I've been to where the fuel is put into your car for you. One word springs to my mind, "Lazy".
Here in Australia, we have been pumping our own fuel for YEARS! We have survived. We will continue to do so.
You lazy Yanks better not hire a car in England, ALL the petrol stations here are self service, and too the best of my knowledge, no one has died in the 40 odd years this has been the norm.
Man. I have homes in California and Oregon. I buy gas in Oregon and I am COMEPLETELY freaked out by the attendant taking my card...and pumping my gas. I have never seen a transient there, although I am sure they exist. But I do know this. I have 3 kids and a wife. I have pumped gas nearly my entire life. I have left my wife and kids and the car for half of it. I have not even NEARLY lost one of them. I have been asked for a dollar or 2 in 30 years by a homeless person. And I have never spilled gas on my shoes. GET WITH THE PROGRAM Oregon. You sound like IDIOTS.
Anyone over the legal age can pump fuel here in australia, if u do it in a safe manner and avoid stupidity then any adult should be able to pump fuel..
Wow, can't believe folks are freaking out about pumping their own gas. What most folks from oregon haven't been to the other states in the USA where we have to pump our own gas. Pumping gas is so easy that even a monkey can do it.
Oregonians: "I can't pump my own gas my children will die from the smell." "I can't pump my own gas I'm super lazy." "I can't pump my own gas I wear the shortest clothes in history." "I can't pump my own gas, there is something called cooties you know, and there is no such thing as hand sanitizer here." "I can't pump my own gas my car will throw up from me pouring gasoline on myself." Other states: "Are y'all idiots?" "Hey lets open up a school for everyday things in Oregon, we'll make Billions every day, minuet, second!
I love it when people use the I don't want to touch something that 50 other people have touched. But, they will go into a grocery store and grab a cart. LOL what a bunch of lazy-assed people. And the disabled persons excuse...they have a call button for people who needs assistance you dimwit. I am absolutely flabbergasted by some of these dimwitted comments. This is completely about being lazy and nothing else. Germs on the gas pump handle. The gas pump handle is probably cleaner because of the gas that can get on it. SMH is all I can do...just SMH.
It sounds like a number of them may indeed be too stupid to pump their own gas
I have filled my car up with gas myself since I learned how to drive and it isn't hard to do.
Wow, I live in Wales (UK) and we don't have people filling up our cars for us. I would be a bit perplexed if I pulled up at a fuel station and someone came out to do it for me. I'd be like 'back away Sir, I have this'
...smh....but, i know, change can be difficult.!!...just a word to the self-pumping wise....do NOT use your cellphone when you are pumping....that was deemed dangerous a few years ago
Oregonians are still whining about not electing a criminal for President. I'm surprised that through their tears and screaming at the sky, they even noticed they have to pump their own gas, poor babies.
In New York State many people prefer self service stations because the fuel is less expensive. Why pay up to 5¢ per gallon more for gas just to sit on your butt and be waited on? Maybe because that's how you were raised.
Where to even begin on this one! I was maybe 12 when I first pumped gas into my parent's car. 51 now and still haven't managed to ruin myself with gasoline. I used to think Oregon was this cool, progressive place, now I see it's a state full of pansies and dangerous transients. What other law's do they have that say "carry me"
If this young lady can pump gas without hands. Why can't some of the people in Oregon do it!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1_dgZ4-Ldw
Someone from Oregon explain this to me, is every gas station there full of transients, we don't seem to have them hanging out at gas stations in Indiana
Seems like every time I get gas in Indianapolis somebody comes up to me and asks for gas money to get home.
Load More Replies...I'm not living in the US but in any case, I would also be afraid to pump the gas myself. If I was acting in the "Walking Dead"..... :D
I bet you know how to have sex right?.. well its very similar, here I will explain in detail: First you need to identify and uncover anything blocking the entry point, then you can give it a light rub to freshen up any dry components, however it may or may not be a bit smelly so this part is optional, once you are satisfied with your progress, you will need to grab the hose with a strong firm grip, whether you are male or female this apparatus need a good commander so taking charge is optimal, once this is achieved gracefully slide it into the tank, care should be taken not to hit the sides, it may coarse injury but generally nothing fatal, once it's all the way in, gently squeeze the release valve (usually located below the nozzle) once finished, you can give it a quick shake, pop it back where you found it, you will probably need to hand over your credit card or some cash, but after that you are good to go!!! Gratz on completing self serve gas 101 hope you enjoyed my tutorial
I'm a New Jerseyite. NJ is the other state where it is illegal to pump your own. I fully understand both sides. I am also accustomed to the NJ joke invented by lazy New York comedy writers who transferred all their shortcomings to NJ as "Jersey Shore" A New Yorkers idea of NJ & its people.Still, there are times I get out to pump my own or at least start, when tired of waiting for someone. I also have times I don't want gas or oil or other station dirty on my hands, like on my way to eat.Also, gas is a toxic substance Not good for dogs, children or sick or respiratory sensitive people. We do have as many independent small dealers and chains as big chain company stations. We have people who do nothing but pump and mechanics who only do their thing, so yes jobs. It would seem that this law does not extend to urban areas, so the people are rural who complain about having to pump. It can be confusing. Some pumps have the nozzle shutoff and it must be put in upside down to work.
Hey Oregon! Sack up!! Quit being such pussies! It's just pumping gas?! Everyone else in the entire world has been doing it for years and we're all just fine. Better than you all in fact. So sack up!!
In Scotland we fill our own cars up. Ya all need to get a grip lol this is the sort of thinking that got you an orange hitler as a leader lol
I'd have to look it up but I'm pretty sure neither Oregon nor New Jersey went for Trump. So I don't think you can blame that on this....
Load More Replies...Wow. I feel weirded out at the moment. I've been driving for more than 35 years and a passenger for another 15 years in Australia - in all my life or memory, I don't remember ever going to a service station where they filled our tank. We pump out own petrol and LPG. We do all our own stuff and walk into the station to pay. I honestly thought this only happened in movies!! Ha ha
In Oregon nobody drinks hard liquor with ice in it anymore . The lady who had the recipie died .
It's a current practice where I live since at least 30 years. We call it self service. No help at the pump. You do it yourself. You slip your card choose the amount, of gas, put the pistol in your reservoir, and click it. When done. You close your lid and leave. You did not have to talk to anyone. Self Service.
Washington State: about 35 years ago, I'd be in Mom's car and she'd be driving. She stopped for gas. She would NOT let me pump her gas. She's driving; she's pumping! So, here's a 70-year-old cancer survivor pumping gas with a 35-year-old delicate flower sitting in the passenger seat.
A whole state full of lazy people , welcome to the real world , things change & sometimes you’ve just got to pull up your big girl panties and do it 😀🤣😂🤪
Connecticut has survived over four decades of self-service gas pumping.
Maybe public transportation will now be more popular in Oregon . . .
what most people on here don't realize is that its not about being able to pump your own gas, because any idiot can pump their own gas, obviously people in 48 out of 50 states do it. It is about not wanting to pump my own gas after not having to pump it ever. one more thing in my state of NJ, it's is cheaper to have someone pump it for you then going to any neighboring state and pump it yourself, so why would i pump it if i can have someone do it for me at a cheaper rate.
Riddle me this: I live in NY and while full service has been fewer and hard to come by in recent years, it does still exist. However, for as long as I have been driving (since 1987) full service has always been MORE EXPENSIVE than self serve. I don't know what they have been doing in NJ? Maybe you can answer that question.
Load More Replies...This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. I have minimal manual dexterity, but I worked pumping gas for numerous years when I was young, and it really is not difficult. The first time I visited Oregon I was shocked that I was not allowed to fuel my own bike, as self-serve had already become almost universal in California by then. In Back To The Future I had one of my biggest laughs at Marty McFly's first experiencing witnessing a full-service station. where tires, oil, and radiator were checked for every customer, and every windshield washed.
Reading these comments made me laugh so hard! Heaven forbid people have to pump there own gas. Us Canadians know how to pump gas or we wouldn't have it in our cars! And people think Canadians are stupid? Really? After reading all the comments, I beg to differ! If you cant pump gas then you shouldn't be able to drive! Get with the rest of society and stop complaining about how lazy you are! LMFAO.
The most fraught tging about filling your own vehicle is remembering if it takes petrol or diesel if you drive more than one (and what side the tank is on!)
Sigh. Attendants USED to do more. Clean windshields, check tire pressure and pump gas. And in icy places, I understand people in shoes not ice friendly would want to have someone just do it for them. However, when it is not winter and you are a capable adult that just needs gas, you can handle it. If you can drive (questionable) with kids in the car, you can pump gas with kids in the car.
I grew up in India where, due to low labour costs, a 'petrol pump' (that is what we call 'gas' there) has multiple attendants. When you drive in, not only do they pump gas for you, they also clean your windshield and check your coolant. However, the few times I have rented cars in UK and South Africa, I have pumped my own gas - and even though it's something I have done very rarely, and each time in cars whose gas tank covers were needlessly fiddly and complicated to get on and off, I managed more or less fine. I can completely understand why in economies with high labour costs, people would be expected to pump their own gas. It's really not that complicated.
What a buncha lazy, entitles people! I refuse to let anyone pump my gas. I'm fully capable of doing it myself. I've been doing it for 30 years in several countries both home and abroad. Put me in Oregon and they might think I'm a frikking nuclear scientist.
I was born in Oregon and lived there till I was 11, Thank God I moved to Kansas, shoot it is rare that you can find someone to pump for you here. I check my own oil, clean my own car windows and pump my own gas. If not I would have to travel 45 miles at least to get someone to do it for me. Grow up Oregonians, it is not rocket science!
Try driving in 4 feet of snow. Having to get all the winter clothes zipped. Then having to stand there filling up the tank and then walking to the station to pay and walk back. No skirts or shoes in wintery Montreal. We always fill our own. Big girl panties.
I'm laughing so hard at this, I live in rural Maine where EVERYONE pumps their own gas!
It is really a law in Oregon that the gas is pumped by an attendant. They don't usually do windshields, however some stations do, they aren't full service. They just pump the fricking gas. Why is this causing so much heartache for all of you. It's a law!!!
I'm OK with sensible laws. Everybody in the other 48 states is still trying to make sense of this one. Do you guys have a "backwards day" or "Simon says" law on the books that you heed as rigorously?
Load More Replies...Incredible. Every time I read something about Oregon, I realize that it must be someplace on the moon or outer space. I'm sure it's beautiful, but it sounds like living in Soviet Russia. And allowed to pump your own gas? What?! I've pumped my own gas most of my life. Full service gas stations disappeared in Texas 50 years ago. Everybody here pumps their own gas and has for years!
I live in Virginia. I didn't know having someone else pump my gas was even an option.
Good God!! I am 53 years old and I have been pumping my own gas since I was a teenager!! Time to come out of the twilight zone and into reality people. I have pumped gas in below zero weather, pouring rain, blizzards, scorching hot weather, you name it, I've done it. Oh yeah, I have had kids in my car , in high heels, pumping gas too. Get yourself some gloves to protect your pretty little hands, and pump your own gas. Quit with the princess attitudes, that goes for you Men too.
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Are you fucktards for real? Not knowing how to pump your own gas at 62? (that was one comment) How do you people get your driver's license???
I didn't know 'pumping gas' was hard. Never had anyone fill my tank for me, and I am mostly useless. I fear that if people say moronic things, they will be judged for it. Don't speak up if you can't take it. And if you don't like someone's opinion....ignore them! You're supposed to be an adult
I'm moving to Oregon, there's money to be made hanging out at the gas station and offering my gas pumping services.
I'm 81, disabled and cannot pump it myself. There is only one station where they do it for you. As far as I can remember the other stations have self service for decades.
Now it makes sense why now all cars have infotainment systems: To show people a step by step instructional video on how to pump they're own gas.
PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE!!! For Christ’s sake. It says you are now ALLOWED to pump your own gas. It doesn’t say you are REQUIRED to pump your own gas. I’m sure there will still be full service available to all you idiots who aparently don’t pay attention. Actually, I’m now kinda glad you are not required to pump it yourself, you probably wouldn’t pay attention to the directions and warnings then either. I’m picturing the gas pump scene in Zoolander.
I've been around for 70+ years and always had the impression that the US were a nation of early adopters of new technologies, especially where it meant less work & more profit for the supplier and more work & less product for the consumer. The change to self-service filling stations happened in the early 60's in the UK, i.e. about 50 years ago. Some of us were disturbed about it, too, but not for the reasons the Oregon folk are giving. What bothered us was that it heralded the demise of small independents & take-over of virtually all fuel retailing by Standard Oil, Shell, and British Petroleum. Also, there was no price drop, despite the fact that personal service disappeared and many attendants lost their jobs. Those Oregon folk who are upset by the loss of personal service are, in my view, justified. Automation can be brilliant, I agree, but it has never done what we were told by technocrats and politicians that it would do - reduce our need to work to survive.
I've been around for 70+ years and just when I begin to think that nothing else about people in this world can amaze me - i come across this story about Oregon folk's reaction to having to fill their petrol tanks themselves! Amazing. I'd always had the impression that, no matter how alienating or commercially corrupt it may be, the USA would always be in front in terms of making money and introducing new technologies. It was around 1965 when self service petrol stations first appeared in England and some of us were upset but not because we had to fill our own tanks, but because it accelerated the demise of independents and the transition to impersonal, large petrol stations, almost all under the control of Standard Oil, British Petroleum or Shell. It's certainly a quaint enough reaction to make one laugh but they are fortunate to have had personal service for so long and those that are bothered on that account are justified, in my view. 'Old fashioned' service was good.
I think that it would be useful for Bored Panda to prevent commenting without first being signed in. I find it annoying to come across a post when I'm not signed in, write a comment, and then be told that I have to sign in to leave a comment, after which what I've written has disappeared. Perhaps I'm as silly of some of those folk who are worried about pumping their own gas but it seems to me that the site designers could easily adjust this. However, perhaps I'm the only one that's been caught out in that way.
I pumped gas since I was 10 years old. Jeeze these people. if they can't figure out how to pump gas then they don't deserve a license.
Thanks! Not only funny, but also it's now easier to understand how Trump got into power . Is it legal to breed with vegetables in Oregon?
are they that stupid in the usa, bloody hell in australia we still pump our own petrol all self service. there isn't many if any service stations that serve people.
We're talking 2 out of 50 states here, and most people in the US (even from Oregon) are laughing at the trolls.
Load More Replies...My only complaint about pumping my own gas is when men who bathe in after shave leave excess cologne on the handle.(gag) I would rather have my hands smell of gasoline....
When I was in Oregon I stopped in a gas station. Went in to see the clerk so I could use cash to pay for the pump. They had one person at the station and she was nowhere to be found. I said forget it and just used the credit and began to pump. She runs out yelling at me "What are you doing.. do you want me to call the police?!" Then when I told her I dont know what the hell you are talking about she saw the license plates and said "You should know oregon doesnt allow self pumping." Blew my mind.
Sheesh! Crying because they now have to do a menial task of putting petrol (gasoline) into their own vehicles. Get out your big-boy, or big-girl.. or for those who wish to believe otherwise than that... their adult pants on and get over it. You don't need a high school education to do it... and even having several doctorates isn't too much, to do it yourself. Betchya didn't even cry when the grocery stores, like WalMart, added those self-checkout lines, did ya? Did you cry when your power company replaced the meters with those remote control ones? Oh, wait... did you cry when they replaced traffic cops at intersections with traffic lights? Have you complained about since fast food workers started getting $15/hr that when you go get your big-mac you now punch it into a KIOSK instead of telling the kid behind the counter what you wanted, and then paid for it?
You are allowed to pump your own gas in every country in Europe. Why is it different in some US states? It's not unsafe, it's not difficult, it's totally straightfoward and easy process. I did it when I was a kid, always asked my dad to let me do it. It's not a service "only qualifed people should do", well, perhaps in Europe everybody is qualified to pump their own gas! xD Why are some people obsessed with safety to the point that they are even scared to get out of their own car at gas station ?! It's insane. I think this is what happens when people are taught not to be responsible for thei actions, fear everything, follow manuals and instructions all the time and quit thinking so somebody else can do it for you.
I drove through NJ last year and was shocked that they can't pump their own gas. I googled why when I got home and it was some ridiculous political thing from long ago. So ridiculous!
I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is cold I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is cold sometimes and I I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is cold sometimes and I have I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is cold sometime. it's simple all you do is open up the door that covers your gasoline tank twist that open stick the nozzle into the gas tank push the button of the fuel that you want lift up on the handle of the nozzle and there is a locking device underneath or behind the handle so that you can get back into your car and wait for the gasoline to stop pumping. And if you have a diesel it's the green colored pump
Omgosh, These comments are too funny! My grandchildren knows how to pump gas and the youngest is 6..lol..And all you need to do is drive up turn your car off grab your keys lock the doors pump your gas , I like to pay at the pump so much easier. Then just put your gas lid on and drive away😂😂😂😂
This is funny. Of course, I live in NJ and we don't pump our own gas. I have lived in other states where I did. I'm now with a balance problem. I can drive but walking around isn't easy, so for that reason I'm glad. Heck, I just needed air in my tires and got someone to do it for me. Lame, I know. But he did it a helluva lot faster than I ever could.
It is always weird to me to be in Oregon and have the attendant rip the pump out of my hand and pump the gas for me, but, whatever. We've been pumping our own in CA for 40+ years. We do have full service for disabled, elderly etc, you honk and they are supposed to come out and do it for them. I guess if you don't know how to do it without dumping it all over yourself, sit in the car and honk pitifully until an attendant takes pity.
I don't know whether to be amused or frightened that there are people out there that don't know how to pump their own gas. From what I understand it said you *can* pump your own gas, not that you have to. I mean, how hard is it to plan to fill your gas at a full service gas station? But I guess people who don't know how to fill their own gas tank, might not be capable of planning how to get gas at the station that offers full service. Geebus. Every time I think Utah stinks, someone out there has to prove to me that other states are worse.
I lived in PDX and hated not being able to pump my own gas. For the full-service price you don’t get full service - no checking of oil or other fluids, no couteous, professional attendant. You get a kid who doesn’t care about his job, moves slowly, and takes 15 minutes to do. 5-minute job. I would gladly pay the full-service price to be able to pump my own gas and get out of there quicker.
Open filler flap, take cap off, insert nozzle, pull lever until you get the amount of fuel required. Surely the reddest of necks can do that?
I can't believe how ignorant these people are - you put your card into the machine - open the little door on the side of your car - put the hose in it (make sure its not the green one unless you want diesel) pull the little trigger handle and put the freaking gas in your car. Transients don't hang around gas stations to harass you - no one is going to steal your kids - lock the doors - so what you have a skirt - get off your little high horse and pump your own gas. Unless you tip the guy pumping it - he doesn't make any extra money doing it for your lazy a*s. You people need to come to Texas and see the real world LMAO.
I moved to Oregon from Colorado and it is demeaning not to be allowed to pump your own gas. You have to sit and wait for someone to come along and do for you what every other mammal has figured out, sticking a nozzle in a hole. After 7 years I still haven't gotten used to it, I always feel like the attendant should at the least hand me a coloring page and some cheap crayons while I'm waiting.
as a canadian who pumped my own gas in -25°C temp the other day (-13°f) i have to laugh. i'll just file that in with americans: still use paper dollar bills and refuse to get onboard with the rest of the world with the metric system.
First of all I didn't even know full service stations were still in existence. Second-I sat here and laughed till tears ran down my face!! Thanks guys for making my day better!!
Im from the UK, and if it isnt bad enough changing you own windscreen wipers, checking your oil, changing light bulbs and charging you battery imagine having to fill your own tank every other day coz of the high milage I do, with the constant rain we have over here, if i didnt get to fill my own taNK in the rain, I problebly wouldnt get to shower either.
I just need to know if this is a true story........I can not believe that there are people this stupid, In any state..........
I guess another good reason to NOT move to Oregon, and here I thought its citizens were rather in the know. I've been pumping my own gas since I was 16 which means, dang, 40 years. :O
Pump your gas and pay for it? Not only that, who'll pump air in the tires? Or add water to the radiator or check the oil and brake fluid? And pay for the gas? No.
I have to question whether this is fake news or not. I visited a college friend a couple summers ago and we took a trip to the pacific coast. We had to fill the car up one time and I pumped our own gas at a gas station. No attendant screamed at me and no one came out to assist me. Course I am from Kansas and have pumping my own gas since I started driving.
People are worried about losing no-skill, low-paying jobs in the area but aren't willing to pay fifty cents extra for lettuce so that migrant workers can have a decent wage. Let's just admit this isn't about safety or jobs, it's because change is scary.
so the majority of Oregon residents have never left the state? Maybe I am a crazy traveler, but I can't imagine not driving out of state EVER, and if so likely you would need gas to get back. well unless you live in Portland and drove to Vancouver for an hour.
Over here, we have basically two reasons to not even consider the possibility of letting people pump their own gas. One is that: people need the jobs. The other is basically theft and vandalism... you just can't trust people in many places here to not be a******s if given the chance. Having more employees and giving people less freedom helps to control that. That's why we only have vending machines in places like inside the subway stations or in shopping malls - they'd be easy prey in the streets.
Wait, people don't pump their own gas? I guess I'm being an ignorant Australian again, woops, I seriously thought that was just a given...
Some years ago I worked at a gas station pumping gas as well as other duties. Sometimes when it got busy people would pump their own gas. Every time that happened at least one person would have a spill on themselves or others simply because they didn't have any instruction or experience on how to do it. Not everyone is mechanically adept.
I wouldn't mind the "full service" in Oregon if it was truly "full service." I'm in Oregon a few times a year. If someone else needs to fill my tank, they can also clean my windows and check under the hood. That's what "full service" meant 30 years ago!
You mean there's a law against pumping your own gas in Oregon? That just boggles my mind. I've had the rare occasion when an attendant pumped gas for me, and found it quaint, if a little weird. I thought that kind of stuff ended in the 70's
Man... I was raised in Canada and then moved to Australia. I was told by my Dad not to go to the states because there are very stupid people live there. Dad also added They are all rejects from canada when they first arrived in canada from other countries in the world and if they did not answer 1 easy question they had to go to the states. That question was " Are you willing to pump your own gas?" They said no and then Canadian government bought them a greyhound ticket and sent them to Oregon. True story.
maybe the loss of dignity Oregon has just suffered will get people will stop moving here.
To the people who say they should have attendants because it creates jobs. So you’re saying a private business should have to incur the cost of employing an attendant because it creates a job? In that case, why not make a law that every grocery store should have an attendant to carry people’s groceries to their car?
To all Oregonians. If you don't want to smell of gasoline simply use your lighter to burn the excess fuel off the nozzle while you are pumping the gas into your car. This will also kill the germs of the 50 plus people that handled the nozzle before you got there.
Yeah, and putting your IPhone in the microwave for 4 minutes speeds up the processor.
Load More Replies...In case anyone else is wondering what other state where you don't pump your own gas is: New Jersey. I must say, reading those comments gave me quite the self-confidence boost! I've never felt so much like a mature and capable adult! I've lived in Iowa, Oklahoma, and Texas and I've always pumped my own gas. It's not particulary fun or enjoyable or anything but you do it because you have too and there are far worse things in life.
...Look at the bright side. If they don't want or can't pump their own gas, they will be looking for another option. Like hiring a person to do it for them and pay them out of their own wallets (which means a new career opportunity, Overseer of Gasoline Distribution, could be illegal though as they new employees need to register for tax) or they can use a bike (which is way more nature-friendly).
These people are too funny. In Chicago we have been pumping our own gas for decades.
I'm originally from WA. Drives me crazy to have to wait for someone to pump my gas here in Oregon.
I drove through Oregon in 2008 and stopped for gas. Pumped it myself because i didn't know such a stupid-a*s law existed. Some guy (the attendant, I assume) came out and wrote down my license plate info. I found out why later from someone who knew about the law. I honestly feel like the only reason I didn't get a ticket (or something) in the mail was because the local DMV had given me the wrong plates. (a whole different story) The plates on my vehicle weren't assigned to anybody.
I’ve been on this Earth, driving my car for 30 years. Never have I ever seen, nor concerned myself with “transients”. If Oregonians are sincerely worried about these “Transients attacking” then the state has larger problems than pumping ones own gas. Oh, and by the way, if you were handicapped or disabled there are pumps that you go to where the attendant will come out and pump your gas. The other 48 states United States do not forsake those populations. Yikes, Oregon.
At first I thought this was a satire piece. Talk about FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS!!! Can anyone tell me WHY Oregon has not kept up with modern life??
Pumping gas was my first job in high school. Now that job doesn't exist and how many people are unemployed? Not a good law.
But what will become of the Refueler's Pride Parade, when we celebrate those intrepid souls who risk life and limb EVERY DAY to make sure vehicles are fueled properly?! Not to mention the Professional Refueler's Union (local 182) and the beloved magazine, Refueler's Quarterly. This truly is the end of days.
Oh.....my......wow.......in Iowa, right this very moment, there are people (including elderly, people with disability's, and do i dare say parents with kids) pumping their own gas *gasp* and to top it off its been like -20 without the wind chill factor * double gasp*!!! Not to mention its been snowing and windy, other people have used the nozzle, AND there are people standing by the door!!!!! Guess what *triple gasp* no one walked away smelling like gas, no one's children were abducted, and lord have mercy someone who isnt "a trained professional" or a relative helped the elderly so they didnt have to get out in the cold. Grow up Oregon and learn how to pump gas......its not rocket science!!!
What happens when the pumps don't worK? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x683nrt
It is very easy. I would rather do it myself. Not helpless. Or maybe they are too lazy or entitled. Oh my dear lord.
You still have people just to pump gas for you? What year are you living in, América? :D
trust me, where I live, it's juuuusst about thirty years behind the times so...yeah about that old. The older folks are living in the 50's at the most.
Load More Replies...This must be what people talk about when they mention "privilege" . Because honestly I have never seen so many whiny and spoiled humans in my life. Seriously Boo-hoo you have to pump your own gas... *eyeroll*
I'm speechless! I was pumping gas into my parent's cars as soon as I could reach the handles. (Rural Virginia). Back in the 70's before unleaded was invented, and children were convienent unpaid servants.
I was a transient. I was able to steal a car with children in it while some terrible parent was pumping their own gas in rural montana. Because of that experience, I was able to raise the kids, met a nice woman to care for them, go to law school, clerk for a supreme court justice and now we moved back to Oregon and I'm running for governor. I will support keeping this new law because I want other transients to have the opportunities I've had. Oregon has been anti-transient for too long. Transient Lives Matter!
I don't mind it if someone fills my tank for me, it is a nice luxury, but for the most part 99% of the time I do it myself. I guess when you are told something enough times, like your job is being taken, you start to believe it. The human mind is susceptible to suggestion.
Oregon people are just f*****g LAZY ! Its not I can not pump gas because I do not know how , all I will smell gas .Just why should I do it myself if someone does it for me and I do not have to move my a*s out of the car ? Just admit it, you're F*****G LAZY OREGON .
I was born and grew up in Greece where it's almost unheard of to pump your own gas. There's always someone to do it for you (plus they'd be rather mad if you tried to do it yourself). When I moved to the Netherlands and had to do it myself the first time I was completely puzzled and found it rather hard. But I was also surprised to see how natural it was for the others. I can understand the sentiment of the people being reluctant but of course their reactions and arguments are indeed ridiculous.
Hi! Ob-gyn physician from Ohio, I have actually pumped my own gas, petrified I would injure my surgery performing hands or splatter gas into my eyes, so necessary for examining patients and seeing to operate or deliver babies. Never had anybody break into my car while fueling. Never had my car explode (I turned it off before putting gas in.) Hate gassing up in the winter, though. We are in single digits now, so frostbite could happen in that 3-5 minute window.
So obviously that car insurance commercial where they didn't even know what a lug wrench was, must be in Oregon. No wonder they had the self sufficient ranchers gunned down out there, they made the rest of you look like the pathetic wastes of sperm & egg you obviously are. God help you if Korea actually sends a missle your direction and you lose all power, you'll be totally screwed.
As a Washingtonian I really couldn't help my laughter at our region's neighbor.
Oh my goodness. Oregon (and New Jersey, I think) should get with the program. Maybe they could have the option for full service but self service would be less expensive. It is literally not that hard to not spill gas on yourself. Smh.
Yikes. The whole reason this is a thing, is because it EMPLOYS more people. Looks like you got egg on yours face there, pal.
Load More Replies...Why only the rural areas ? City people too stupid to pump their own gasoline ? I'll respond my own question ...The answer is Portland
I was distracted when I first read this: I thought it stated that we have to pump our own Oregonians, but in Colorado they will pump your Oregonian for you. And 47 other states, too. Well, I was wrong. Whew.
I've pumped my own gas since I was 17, I've only had an attendant do it on a handful of occasions and they were all abroad. Here in Ireland vehicle fuel is a very minor part of what can be bought at a petrol station.
Come to New Jersey, we still can't pump our own gas. I have to drive to Pennsyl-freakin'-vania to pump it myself.
How will we recognize the stations that will let us do that? Or do we just sit until we figure it out?
Well, Oregon isn't known for it's rocket scientist, brain surgeons, and MENSA members. Having seen these comments, I would be very reluctant to move to Oregon.
I literally fell out of my chair laughing so hard at the comments !!!!!!! This made my day.... "I'm typing this with my tongue".... BWAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!
The first time I was in Oregon, I stopped to get some fuel, and the attendant nearly had a fit when I took matters into my own hands. I couldn't understand why he insisted that he was going to pump the gas. I kept saying, I got it, bro. Thanks, though. Finally he explained that the LAW states that he needs to pump the gas. Ah. I finally got it. He probably thought I was some sort of dimwit.
https://youtu.be/IdOF7xg5lug "Oh my god! That man's trying to pump his own gas!"
I never realized how hard I had it living in a backwards state where you have to pump your own gas?? I guess it's just become a normal thing for me fighting off transients and kidnappers while in a skirt in the snow. Maybe I need to move to Oregon where life is better and I'm not expected to do simple everyday tasks...
It’s nice to have your gas pumped, I always do it when I am in Oregon.
I've never been anyplace where you DIDN'T have to pump your own gas for the last thirty years or so. Now I feel like Big Oil has been using me and I didn't even realize it.
Is this a real outrage? lol I feel like if you can't get your butt out and pump your own gas like everyone else you are seriously touched in the head lol.
And these same people are allowex to operate a motor vehicle. If you choos eto pay extra for someone ot pump your fuel, then that s your prerogative, but to demand it on the grounds of being incapable really says a lot about these Oregonians.
I USE TO LOVE THE SOME OF "REGULAR" GAS WHEN THERE WAS "REGULSR GAS"! WEIRD I KNOW!
There's maybe 20 people in Oregon who have anything negative to say about this new law, and yeah they all deserve ridicule.
Seeing all the people who are upset about the pumping their own gas shows that there is a market opportunity for people who want their gas pumped for them. Sounds like a job opportunity. Why are we making fun of these people who clearly feel like they need help at the pump? In other countries they have these services and its very convenient! This drama around the responses is not needed, and not news worthy at all. Pure shameful gossip.
Guys, seriously? I'm an Oregon native - I've lived here for most of my life. It's been this way for ages, and do you want to know why? It's because it keeps people EMPLOYED. Don't call Oregonians stupid just because you don't understand that. This is something we've had for a very long time, and for me it's disheartening to hear that it could be changing solely for this reason. I don't want to see Gas Stations getting cheap and laying people off. Not cool.
So why should an private business how to incur then cost of employing somebody for the sole reason that it employs somebody? They should have a law for designated cart pushers at the grocery store then.
Load More Replies...why is this a surprise for everyone?Let's be realistic USA is the country with most stupid and lazy people from the entire world..and that's not something new!
Yeah, stereotyping is really the way to make the peace in the world (says a European girl who finds the complaining people ridiculous).
Load More Replies...Maybe they should learn to READ before trying something as complicated as filling their own fuel tank! Quote: "allows people in rural areas to pump their own gas" Maybe buy a dictionary too since the word "allows" is not the same as "requires". For you dimwitted Oregonians that means it is "voluntary". You have a choice. What is it you fear? How to insert credit card? Remembering your zip code? Pressing yes for receipt? How to open gas door and remove cap? Which button to press? 87, 89, 91, 93? Better live in fear of that GREEN nozzle if your vehicle is NOT a diesel.
Fear that we will have more unemployed folk perhaps. Why don't you read about why we have this law in place before being so judgmental?
Load More Replies...That's all Oregonians need, another way to get dysentery on that dreadful trail. it's a miracle they have not gone extinct as it is.
I empathize with the Oregon people. pumping your own gas is horrible and I hate having to do it!
Why should a business have to incur the cost of employing someone only because it gives someone job?
Load More Replies...How did someone "die" and then tweet their story? Seems a bit fake to me.
What? I like the smell of gasoline. What is your point?
Load More Replies...At first, I wasn't sure what the "pumping your own gas" even meant (sorry, not an English language native). Do I understand it correctly, that it's the process of opening the caps on the fuel tank, lifting the pistol (and choosing the right one!) without it spilling, moving it and putting it in your car, pressing a handle to allow the gas to go into the tank, then having to stop it, take it out, put it back on the stand and close both of the caps on the tank? Wow, now, writing it all down, it does seem like a lot of work, I feel so sorry for them!
at first I thought they refer to autogas (LPG). And I could understand somebody not willing to tank LPG to his/her car by herself, as for eg. in my country customers are hardly never allowed to pump LPG by themselves at a station, so maybe it's more complicated or dangerous than pumping gasoline or diesel. But then I realised that they mean gasoline... omg :P Seems I'm risking my life at least twice a month :P
Load More Replies...I....I....didn't even know that a whole state was full service gas. I've never been to such a place. I can hardly believe this is real. Nobody in the state ever pumped their own gas? How is this even possible?
Yep, New Jersey too. Throws them too. Personally, whenever we pass through OR, it freaks me the hell out that I CAN'T pump my own gas.
Load More Replies...I have a feeling there will be a lot of people running out of gas and walking in Oregon.
Load More Replies...I'm legally blind and though I cannot drive a vehicle, I CAN pump gas for my driver!! If a blind person can do it, anyone can! The pumps we have now make it so easy. You don't even have to go INTO the station/store to pay for it anymore either. How could it get any easier??
The only reason I can think of for some people is that Oregon has had it full serve for so long that there are lots of elderly people here that are actually kind of nervous about using the pumps. It's not that they can't learn...of course they can. Oregon (where I live) has VERY harsh weather. The wind is so bad that the windows blow out of the buildings. People can literally be blown over. I'm not joking. There are lots and lots of older people here and they don't have much help. It's a poor area...very kind of hardscrabble. People are acting like they're morons here. Well...some of them are frankly but so what? They are what they are but that doesn't mean that old people need to be made fun of for their lot in life. People love to denigrate others. Not you Molly....I'm just saying there are a hell of a lot of people here who are talking out of their asses. You all might want to step down off of your high horses before someone knocks you off.
Load More Replies...Poor Oregon, pumping your own gas, I guess soon the state will mandate that citizens know how to boil water, change a light bulb and identify a stop sign?
Oregonian here and that's not very nice. I can totally do... the stop sign one.
Load More Replies...Okay, folks, just how spoiled are you? I'm a 75 year old woman with heart problems and arthritis. I have pumped my own gas for many years and never once got any gas on me. I check my own oil, add air to the tires and replace the washer fluid when needed. I can't imagine any adult who is capable of driving a car who can't pump their own gas!!!
I'm 64 and we were raised in a time when we were expected to know how to do basic car maintenance before we could drive a different time.
Load More Replies...I live in Oregon and I'm glad we can pump our own gas now. I hate having to wait for Maynard to saunter out and finish chit chatting with Rufus about the deer he bagged last weekend before he decides to get to my car. It's like everyone thinks we're on manana time here. Granted I live in a very rural area and not everyone is like that here but I've had to get out of my car to prompt the attendant to come over and then he freaks out and tells me it's illegal. Yeah I know but put a fire under it holmes. I've got places to go. Not everyone here is retired or on the government dole.
Do I hate pumping my gas? Why yes I do. Do I have children? Yes I do. Do I pump my own gas? YES! It is a great CONVENIENCE for someone else to pump your gas, but it is just that... a convenience.
Meanwhile in Europe (atleast I think in most countries here?) people have been pumping their own gas for many years without any issues... :P
And in every other place besides Oregon and New Jersey
Load More Replies...Oregonian here. I pumped my own gas for a few decades in California before moving up here. I was a new mom with an infant and it was nice to not have to get out and listen to him scream. 18 years later, I still appreciate someone else pumping my gas and I tip accordingly. Anyway, if they changed the state law so I had to pump it again, I'd do it happily. Why? Because I'm a freakin' adult who is self-sufficient. I follow the law here and let someone else do it. But when I go to California or Washington, I pump my own. When I see the Oregonian comments above, I just shake my head. Only TWO states ban drivers from pumping their own gas and I've yet to see national headlines about people dropping dead from breathing gas fumes or children being neglected because their parents pumped gas, and there's a nifty seal around the gas tank opening to keep fumes to a minimum. Geez.
I didn't know that Oregon was a post-apocalyptic Mad Max hellscape where performing the most menial of tasks puts you in mortal danger. Going to the bathroom must be a nightmare...
I was passing through one time and didn't know the law and I pumped my own gas......the attendant came out and gave me a scolding and took the pump handle from me. Apparently he was a professional and knew the "right" way to pump the gas :).
Years and years ago, my folks were driving from California to Washington. They didn't know they couldn't pump their own gas, so they stopped, dad popped out and grabbed the nozzle. A guy ran out and said, "Sir, you can't pump your own gas." Dad looked at him and said, "Yes, I can... watch."
Load More Replies...I'm from Oregon. Trust me, we're not all characters in Portlandia. Most of us are sensible. Pumping our own gas in rural counties? Well, it's a start...
Yep, sometimes, I forget too. ANd I'm going to write 2017 until april or may ;p
Load More Replies...This is hilarious. Oh no! vagrants will get us!! I laughed out loud at the statement by some saying they would just stand and wait for their gas to get pumped lol
Ah yes, the vagrants. Also known as human beings who have names. 99.999% sure no one could walk ten feet in their shoes and survive. G*d forbid, FORBID, that feeling useful matters to "these" people, even for five minutes, because of course, "they" have no feelings. Or hopes.
Load More Replies...I get a migraine from the smell so I go to a full service station for gas as well as my 2 vehicles are serviced by one of the best,honest mechanics there is, so I support them by getting my gas there.
Load More Replies...It's no joke! Pumping gas is extremely dangerous. Every time I am about to do it, I say goodbye to my loved ones.
It's deadly. You always have to revamp your will before getting out of the car
Load More Replies...I'm pretty old, so I remember when self-serve was a new idea and they were convincing all of us that doing this labor was going to save us all money. Now I guess we've all swallowed the brainwash. I live in Michigan where I pump my own gas. I go to Oregon frequently, where someone else pumps my gas. I don't notice a big savings or any savings at the pump in Michigan where the business is relieved of hiring help. I say Oregon should fight the good fight against standing in the rain pumping their own so that business owners will be able to reduce their payroll. Like a lot of people in Oregon I'd guess, being able to pump my own gas, checkout my own groceries, and use a banking machine, doesn't mean I want to always have to do it. I wouldn't mind some service since I know not getting it wont save me any money. And for someone else it is a job.
You can really tell the youngsters that never grew up with full serve. It makes gas slightly more, but they also checked your air, oil. Back then cars needed more maintenance. It was kind of nice actually, more so for people who didn't like checking their own car etc. It's just another service we've forgone to get the cheapest price, yeah even grocery stores had nice service nothing like walmart or most stores for that matter. You don't know what you never had, which is amazing customer service. Imagine every place you went treated you like royalty, yes all businesses used to be that way.
I remember back in the day when drug stores delivered without asking for your credit card number, when ALL grocery stores had baggers and people who would help you to your car -AND load the groceries in it, when Texacos big ad was "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star..." but that was long ago and far away. There is no such thing as Customer Service nowadays, rudeness is a way of life now. BUT... the complaints that I am reading from these ding-a-lings from Oregon are ludicrous! Fear of transients, possibly smelling like gas, having to leave Junior alone in the car for the 3 minutes it takes to swipe their credit cards and pump a few gallons of gas into their tanks, etc, etc, are just lame excuses. Obviously these people from rural Oregon have never left their comfort zone and travelled across the borders of their backwoods home, because the surrounding states are all self-service! And if you are afraid of possibly smelling like gas? Bring along a pack of baby wipes!
Load More Replies..."The elderly have to pump their own gas" In the other 48 states, when we see an elderly person struggling to pump their gas, we help them.
If you aren't able to pump your own gas without great difficulty because you're so old and feeble you shouldn't be able to drive a multi ton machine that may require split second evasive maneuvers at highway speeds either.
Load More Replies...I live in NZ and i've never even heard of having someone else pump your own gas, and its' so simple why is everyone getting so upset about it, you literally just open the gas tank, put the pump in the tank, fill it up and screw on the cap.
i don't drive. i never have. i do know how to pump gas because as a kid my parents drove. an 8 year old could and has pumped gas.
Switch to an electric car. No more pumping gas. :) You can plug in at home and have a full tank/battery when you wake up in in the morning.
Haha the pump pumps it, you just press the trigger. You Americans can shoot a gun, you can fill up with fuel..
"I don't want to smell like gasoline." It's a gas pump, not a freakin shower!
So funny seeing all the comments saying they are shocked about the "full-service" we have here in Oregon. Give me a break! Full-service? No. A person pumps the gas. You wash your own windshield/windows and check your own oil. I can't stand that we can't just pump our own gas. Oh - and I've yet to witness a transient stalking people at gas stations...
Mmmmh, i don't get it... In France, we all pump our own gas and....well, we seem to have not too much difficulties surviving it. I could act chauvinist as French are supposed to be and say that we are superiorly smart or talented to be able to perform alone this sooooo diffocult task. But I'm sure people in Oregon have an average IQ. They should ba able to do it, even without specific training ;p . I'm sure gas station are going to put the same sign we have to remind people to not smoke or use device that could provoque sparks. Oregon, you'll survive I promis
Growing up on Long Island, NY there used to be full-service gas stations with attendants - I should know because I was one of them - yup, all of 12 years old and I would "volunteer" at my local station to make money to buy my mom her mother's day present! Folks, it ain't no biggie - really!. I still remember when self-service stations came into being. People complained, but they got over it. Even my mother, who still can't program her DVD player, set up her TV set, or go online without help can and does pump her own gas. She has never set herself on fire, drowned in a puddle of Hi-Test or been trampled by rampaging transients! If the idea of actually doing something for yourself that basically the entire world knows how to do - other than YOU - then stop driving and leave your carbon footprint at your front door. Sheesh!
Not sure if it's ever enforced, but I've seen on most all pumps nowadays that it's illegal for anybody under the minimum driving age to pump gas now.
Load More Replies...I was in Oregon in 1990. I think the law had just been passed. It mystified me-and I had several people carefully (and condescendingly) explain to me that this provided jobs for inner city youths. I asked them if they had ever visited the inner city and counted the gas stations/job opportunities, and was usually treated with the tongue-clucking disapproval that I now reserve for Trump supporters.
Well in my country the normal thing to do is not to pump your own gas...so more people can actually have a job.
The only point I agree with is that people slotted under unskilled labour, who don't have the aptitude for other tasks, might end up losing their small way of adding to their income... the rest are a tad...dramatic.
That is the most demeaning and venemous comment I've ever read bt someone agreeing with something!
Load More Replies...if all you people in Oregon hate pumping your own gas so much then WHY don't you ever TIP the gas attendant and show some appreciation! Most attendants are making minimum wage standing outside on blistering hot days, freezing cold days, rainy and snowy days but nobody gives a damn about them until they have to do it themselves!
How do people in Oregon and New Jersey fuel their lawn mowers and snow blowers? Do they have an attendant pump the gas into their canister, then take the canister home and pour it into their machine themselves (effectively pumping the gas via gravity)? Does a gas delivery service drive come and fuel the machines directly? Other? I'm seriously curious.
this was pretty funny, but i have the feeling that the "outrage" in Oregon over this newfound responsibility is a bit overblown. I have seen 5 or 6 different articles on this subject and everyone of them has the same twitter posts from people upset about this. so, like, 5 people. I would venture a guess that some or even all of these people are just trolling.
Why are americans so helpless in simple practical matters? Anything wrong with their education or intellect?
Dear Oregon, comment from the rest of the world, we are confused why can't you fill up your own petrol tanks when the rest of us have been doing it successfully and not blowing up our cities on a regular basis. Yours faithfully the rest of motoring kind
It's a good job you lot don't live in Britain or your tires would grow roots if you waited for somebody to pump fuel in your car, get off your big fat arses and do it yourself you idle buggers.
OMFG !!!!!! And these people are allowed to vote and reproduce? God help us....
As it says "can begin pumping their own gas", that sounds like it's an option, not that you have to do it yourself anyway. In NZ, it's standard to pump your own. There is only one brand of petrol station (Z) that still has forecourt attendants as far as I can tell, but you can still pump your own there. As for the person paying transients (that are apparently terrifying) to pump her gas, how does she pay them, or for the gas, without getting murdered I wonder, if they're such an issue?
I remember I was on vacation in Oregon and stopped at a gas station. This nice guy came running out and asked what kind of gas I wanted. I was so shocked. I told him "I got it" and he said....get this: "You cannot pump your own gas" to which I said: "what?" and he repeated the same. then he said: "it is against the law to pump your own gas in Oregon". I literally was in shock. I had never heard those words before. This was in the 80's which means I have been pumping my own gas for almost 40 years!! And I am still alive and don't smell like gasoline! Yahoo!!
No, she did NOT pay a "transient" (who even uses that word anymore) to pump her gas in Colorado. Either she gave money to a homeless man and sat in her car wondering how long it should take him to pump it as he walked away with her money or she pulled up to a station where an unfortunate attendant made the mistake of checking on her after she sat in her car at the pump for too long. Don't buy that woman's lies - we still pump our own fuel, like responsible vehicle owners, throughout the state of Colorado!
Heh heh heh. By the way, New Jersey is the only other state where self serve gasoline is illegal. Though I've been there a couple of times each time I've gotten out and started to pump myself before being reminded by the attendant.
I think pumping your own gas is for peasants. 29 years in New Jersey, and 4 in Nevada where you're forced to pump your own gas; and I'll never get used to the latter. I don't want to get out of the car, I don't want to deal with the (almost always) faulty machinery, I don't want to touch the stupid thing, or risk smelling like gas when I go somewhere. There's no reason to not pay some young high school kid Minumum wage to convenience everyone's day. I'm sorry, it's just disgusting. I'll ride on empty for days and risk running out of gas before inconveniencing myself to go stand at the stupid pump
Or any other US state that you have to drive through to get from Oregon to New Jersey (which is probably 2500 mile (4000 km) away. Anybody got a car that can go 2500 miles without that icky refueling?
Load More Replies...I don't understand how someone is completely against it. It doesn't take a 'professional' to do this, this is not brain surgery, this isn't HAZMAT stuff. I'm from TN, we pump our own gas, you have to learn how to do that to drive. I moved to Oregon and was completely shocked that these people have no idea how to pump gas. Like, it literally is not only one of the simplest f*****g things to do, but the screen...gives you directions. It really blows my mind that these people are freaking out.
Meanwhile, in the UK- we've been 'pumping our own gas' since... forever, I think. And people wonder why we make fun of ( some ) Americans for being r******d...
... It's a thing to keep MORE people employed... It's not just to make life easier (that's just the added bonus)
Load More Replies...Where I live I haven't even seen a full serve station in a few decades. As a teenager, this is the first thing we learn after obtaining a beginners driving permit, along with checking oil, tire pressure and how to change a flat tire. I feel sorry for the people in Oregon that are unable to do what teenagers/children are able to do where I live!
I am literally 11 and i know how to pump gas without help. These people probably don't even know what they are talking about. They just think "OMG another simple task? ITS GIVING MY OWN CAR FUEL!!! ITS GONNA GIVE ME AUTISM IF I GET OUT OF THE CAR!!!!"
This is extra funny for me, since I'm german and the concept of someone filling my gas tank is so incredibly foreign to me... Besides, its a gas station, not effing Sparta... Your kid is not going to get snatched while you stand literally 5 feet away... And to pay you could, oh I don't know, lock the doors or take the kids with you to the counter... So much about the States confuses the ever-loving eff out of me, but this takes the cake!
My mom was in her 30's when she learned found out that there were states where you have to pump your own gas. Reason why is because the only 2 states that she has lived in are Oregon and New Jersey, the 2 states where you can't pump your own gas. She found out while on a trip to San Francisco and waited 45 minutes for someone to pump her own gas.
Tell you what, don't smoke when you're pumping gas. Now that is a real hazard. And I might as well warn the owners of these here gas pumps. Watch out for non-payers. It doesn't take long for them to get back into the car and drive off, tires screechin' 'n all.
I can just imagine these people accidentally taking a freeway exit that takes them into Vancouver, WA., and then pull into a gas station where they sit for two hours waiting for someone to come and pump their gas, because they are too afraid of getting out of their car to ask why the attendant hasn't shown up.
Jim Bryant's reply.... Brilliant. 😂 Coming from the UK I have never had my gas pumped for me. It's manual all over the UK.
I consider pumping your own gas to be a test. If you are not able to pump your own gas, you should not be driving.
Is this a joke??? Are these people so backward they can't do something so simple for themselves or do they just feel they are above the rest of the country and should be waited on like royalty!! Get a grip of your lives Oregonians jeez!!!
I am 80 and have been pumping my own gas, checking my oil and tires and cleaning my windows for50 of those years.
being an aussie, where "full driveway service" is something of a luxury, i wondered if pumping your own gas meant using some kind of manual pump, like an antiquated well. nope. literally just using a fuel bowser. people scare me sometimes.
I pumped my own gas in Oregon once. I was driving from California, to my sister's house, for Thanksgiving in Washington. I had 4 children in my Audi and it was pouring rain. People looked at me like I had lost my mind. I thought it was just because I had California plates on my car. Lol
This law (and the posts from people who are shattered at the notion that they might have to dispense their own fuel) is really just a means of gathering the names of all of the people who are to be removed from the gene pool for the good of the country. The Republican Party has been making lists from the posts and Nazi Trump voters will be making the rounds of Oregon neighborhoods engaging in "Snowflake Cleansing" any day now. Please be patient and don't run or try to move to Texas or anything.
Very amusing to me, DIFFERENT COUNTRY, DIFFERENT HABITS. In Germany there is only self-service available, and that since the mid-1980s. At first, I do admit, it was kind of a "strange thing", when I had to "do the job" on my own. But you live and learn. - (If someone feels too old, to do the self-service refuel job, I would kindly say, "maybe you are too old, to drive a car in public!"
We have our gas pumped for us in all weather and it costs no more for the service, and WE are backwards? Portland has not changed this, and aren't going to, because we see no point.
How much time do you spend waiting for this "luxury" service?
Load More Replies...I am shocked by these comments. I have been driving every day since I was 16 and have never had anyone pump my gas for me. When you go to a restaurant do you have the waitress cut your steak for you too? You all sound like a bunch of entitled little snowflakes. C
Well I guess if it's not something you're used to doing I can see where it might take all of about 30 seconds of brain activity coupled with frikin common sense but most people with a brain in their head could figure it out! If being afraid to get out of your car because you're worried about the "not so desirable elements around " maybe you should consider relocating. Hey maybe you could get the same person that wipes your b*** for you to go with next time you have to get gas. Just a thought! Good luck with that!
"and who knows what cooties are on there". Just spent some time in hospital where a swab showed positive for MRSA. Nurse said nothing to worry about as nearly everyone carries the virus anyway. It only becomes a health threat if it manages to get into an open wound, or so I was told. Bloody good job the ones complaining don't come to the UK they'd be well and truly screwed. I can't think of any fuel garages I've been to where the fuel is put into your car for you. One word springs to my mind, "Lazy".
Here in Australia, we have been pumping our own fuel for YEARS! We have survived. We will continue to do so.
You lazy Yanks better not hire a car in England, ALL the petrol stations here are self service, and too the best of my knowledge, no one has died in the 40 odd years this has been the norm.
Man. I have homes in California and Oregon. I buy gas in Oregon and I am COMEPLETELY freaked out by the attendant taking my card...and pumping my gas. I have never seen a transient there, although I am sure they exist. But I do know this. I have 3 kids and a wife. I have pumped gas nearly my entire life. I have left my wife and kids and the car for half of it. I have not even NEARLY lost one of them. I have been asked for a dollar or 2 in 30 years by a homeless person. And I have never spilled gas on my shoes. GET WITH THE PROGRAM Oregon. You sound like IDIOTS.
Anyone over the legal age can pump fuel here in australia, if u do it in a safe manner and avoid stupidity then any adult should be able to pump fuel..
Wow, can't believe folks are freaking out about pumping their own gas. What most folks from oregon haven't been to the other states in the USA where we have to pump our own gas. Pumping gas is so easy that even a monkey can do it.
Oregonians: "I can't pump my own gas my children will die from the smell." "I can't pump my own gas I'm super lazy." "I can't pump my own gas I wear the shortest clothes in history." "I can't pump my own gas, there is something called cooties you know, and there is no such thing as hand sanitizer here." "I can't pump my own gas my car will throw up from me pouring gasoline on myself." Other states: "Are y'all idiots?" "Hey lets open up a school for everyday things in Oregon, we'll make Billions every day, minuet, second!
I love it when people use the I don't want to touch something that 50 other people have touched. But, they will go into a grocery store and grab a cart. LOL what a bunch of lazy-assed people. And the disabled persons excuse...they have a call button for people who needs assistance you dimwit. I am absolutely flabbergasted by some of these dimwitted comments. This is completely about being lazy and nothing else. Germs on the gas pump handle. The gas pump handle is probably cleaner because of the gas that can get on it. SMH is all I can do...just SMH.
It sounds like a number of them may indeed be too stupid to pump their own gas
I have filled my car up with gas myself since I learned how to drive and it isn't hard to do.
Wow, I live in Wales (UK) and we don't have people filling up our cars for us. I would be a bit perplexed if I pulled up at a fuel station and someone came out to do it for me. I'd be like 'back away Sir, I have this'
...smh....but, i know, change can be difficult.!!...just a word to the self-pumping wise....do NOT use your cellphone when you are pumping....that was deemed dangerous a few years ago
Oregonians are still whining about not electing a criminal for President. I'm surprised that through their tears and screaming at the sky, they even noticed they have to pump their own gas, poor babies.
In New York State many people prefer self service stations because the fuel is less expensive. Why pay up to 5¢ per gallon more for gas just to sit on your butt and be waited on? Maybe because that's how you were raised.
Where to even begin on this one! I was maybe 12 when I first pumped gas into my parent's car. 51 now and still haven't managed to ruin myself with gasoline. I used to think Oregon was this cool, progressive place, now I see it's a state full of pansies and dangerous transients. What other law's do they have that say "carry me"
If this young lady can pump gas without hands. Why can't some of the people in Oregon do it!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1_dgZ4-Ldw
Someone from Oregon explain this to me, is every gas station there full of transients, we don't seem to have them hanging out at gas stations in Indiana
Seems like every time I get gas in Indianapolis somebody comes up to me and asks for gas money to get home.
Load More Replies...I'm not living in the US but in any case, I would also be afraid to pump the gas myself. If I was acting in the "Walking Dead"..... :D
I bet you know how to have sex right?.. well its very similar, here I will explain in detail: First you need to identify and uncover anything blocking the entry point, then you can give it a light rub to freshen up any dry components, however it may or may not be a bit smelly so this part is optional, once you are satisfied with your progress, you will need to grab the hose with a strong firm grip, whether you are male or female this apparatus need a good commander so taking charge is optimal, once this is achieved gracefully slide it into the tank, care should be taken not to hit the sides, it may coarse injury but generally nothing fatal, once it's all the way in, gently squeeze the release valve (usually located below the nozzle) once finished, you can give it a quick shake, pop it back where you found it, you will probably need to hand over your credit card or some cash, but after that you are good to go!!! Gratz on completing self serve gas 101 hope you enjoyed my tutorial
I'm a New Jerseyite. NJ is the other state where it is illegal to pump your own. I fully understand both sides. I am also accustomed to the NJ joke invented by lazy New York comedy writers who transferred all their shortcomings to NJ as "Jersey Shore" A New Yorkers idea of NJ & its people.Still, there are times I get out to pump my own or at least start, when tired of waiting for someone. I also have times I don't want gas or oil or other station dirty on my hands, like on my way to eat.Also, gas is a toxic substance Not good for dogs, children or sick or respiratory sensitive people. We do have as many independent small dealers and chains as big chain company stations. We have people who do nothing but pump and mechanics who only do their thing, so yes jobs. It would seem that this law does not extend to urban areas, so the people are rural who complain about having to pump. It can be confusing. Some pumps have the nozzle shutoff and it must be put in upside down to work.
Hey Oregon! Sack up!! Quit being such pussies! It's just pumping gas?! Everyone else in the entire world has been doing it for years and we're all just fine. Better than you all in fact. So sack up!!
In Scotland we fill our own cars up. Ya all need to get a grip lol this is the sort of thinking that got you an orange hitler as a leader lol
I'd have to look it up but I'm pretty sure neither Oregon nor New Jersey went for Trump. So I don't think you can blame that on this....
Load More Replies...Wow. I feel weirded out at the moment. I've been driving for more than 35 years and a passenger for another 15 years in Australia - in all my life or memory, I don't remember ever going to a service station where they filled our tank. We pump out own petrol and LPG. We do all our own stuff and walk into the station to pay. I honestly thought this only happened in movies!! Ha ha
In Oregon nobody drinks hard liquor with ice in it anymore . The lady who had the recipie died .
It's a current practice where I live since at least 30 years. We call it self service. No help at the pump. You do it yourself. You slip your card choose the amount, of gas, put the pistol in your reservoir, and click it. When done. You close your lid and leave. You did not have to talk to anyone. Self Service.
Washington State: about 35 years ago, I'd be in Mom's car and she'd be driving. She stopped for gas. She would NOT let me pump her gas. She's driving; she's pumping! So, here's a 70-year-old cancer survivor pumping gas with a 35-year-old delicate flower sitting in the passenger seat.
A whole state full of lazy people , welcome to the real world , things change & sometimes you’ve just got to pull up your big girl panties and do it 😀🤣😂🤪
Connecticut has survived over four decades of self-service gas pumping.
Maybe public transportation will now be more popular in Oregon . . .
what most people on here don't realize is that its not about being able to pump your own gas, because any idiot can pump their own gas, obviously people in 48 out of 50 states do it. It is about not wanting to pump my own gas after not having to pump it ever. one more thing in my state of NJ, it's is cheaper to have someone pump it for you then going to any neighboring state and pump it yourself, so why would i pump it if i can have someone do it for me at a cheaper rate.
Riddle me this: I live in NY and while full service has been fewer and hard to come by in recent years, it does still exist. However, for as long as I have been driving (since 1987) full service has always been MORE EXPENSIVE than self serve. I don't know what they have been doing in NJ? Maybe you can answer that question.
Load More Replies...This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. I have minimal manual dexterity, but I worked pumping gas for numerous years when I was young, and it really is not difficult. The first time I visited Oregon I was shocked that I was not allowed to fuel my own bike, as self-serve had already become almost universal in California by then. In Back To The Future I had one of my biggest laughs at Marty McFly's first experiencing witnessing a full-service station. where tires, oil, and radiator were checked for every customer, and every windshield washed.
Reading these comments made me laugh so hard! Heaven forbid people have to pump there own gas. Us Canadians know how to pump gas or we wouldn't have it in our cars! And people think Canadians are stupid? Really? After reading all the comments, I beg to differ! If you cant pump gas then you shouldn't be able to drive! Get with the rest of society and stop complaining about how lazy you are! LMFAO.
The most fraught tging about filling your own vehicle is remembering if it takes petrol or diesel if you drive more than one (and what side the tank is on!)
Sigh. Attendants USED to do more. Clean windshields, check tire pressure and pump gas. And in icy places, I understand people in shoes not ice friendly would want to have someone just do it for them. However, when it is not winter and you are a capable adult that just needs gas, you can handle it. If you can drive (questionable) with kids in the car, you can pump gas with kids in the car.
I grew up in India where, due to low labour costs, a 'petrol pump' (that is what we call 'gas' there) has multiple attendants. When you drive in, not only do they pump gas for you, they also clean your windshield and check your coolant. However, the few times I have rented cars in UK and South Africa, I have pumped my own gas - and even though it's something I have done very rarely, and each time in cars whose gas tank covers were needlessly fiddly and complicated to get on and off, I managed more or less fine. I can completely understand why in economies with high labour costs, people would be expected to pump their own gas. It's really not that complicated.
What a buncha lazy, entitles people! I refuse to let anyone pump my gas. I'm fully capable of doing it myself. I've been doing it for 30 years in several countries both home and abroad. Put me in Oregon and they might think I'm a frikking nuclear scientist.
I was born in Oregon and lived there till I was 11, Thank God I moved to Kansas, shoot it is rare that you can find someone to pump for you here. I check my own oil, clean my own car windows and pump my own gas. If not I would have to travel 45 miles at least to get someone to do it for me. Grow up Oregonians, it is not rocket science!
Try driving in 4 feet of snow. Having to get all the winter clothes zipped. Then having to stand there filling up the tank and then walking to the station to pay and walk back. No skirts or shoes in wintery Montreal. We always fill our own. Big girl panties.
I'm laughing so hard at this, I live in rural Maine where EVERYONE pumps their own gas!
It is really a law in Oregon that the gas is pumped by an attendant. They don't usually do windshields, however some stations do, they aren't full service. They just pump the fricking gas. Why is this causing so much heartache for all of you. It's a law!!!
I'm OK with sensible laws. Everybody in the other 48 states is still trying to make sense of this one. Do you guys have a "backwards day" or "Simon says" law on the books that you heed as rigorously?
Load More Replies...Incredible. Every time I read something about Oregon, I realize that it must be someplace on the moon or outer space. I'm sure it's beautiful, but it sounds like living in Soviet Russia. And allowed to pump your own gas? What?! I've pumped my own gas most of my life. Full service gas stations disappeared in Texas 50 years ago. Everybody here pumps their own gas and has for years!
I live in Virginia. I didn't know having someone else pump my gas was even an option.
Good God!! I am 53 years old and I have been pumping my own gas since I was a teenager!! Time to come out of the twilight zone and into reality people. I have pumped gas in below zero weather, pouring rain, blizzards, scorching hot weather, you name it, I've done it. Oh yeah, I have had kids in my car , in high heels, pumping gas too. Get yourself some gloves to protect your pretty little hands, and pump your own gas. Quit with the princess attitudes, that goes for you Men too.
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Are you fucktards for real? Not knowing how to pump your own gas at 62? (that was one comment) How do you people get your driver's license???
I didn't know 'pumping gas' was hard. Never had anyone fill my tank for me, and I am mostly useless. I fear that if people say moronic things, they will be judged for it. Don't speak up if you can't take it. And if you don't like someone's opinion....ignore them! You're supposed to be an adult
I'm moving to Oregon, there's money to be made hanging out at the gas station and offering my gas pumping services.
I'm 81, disabled and cannot pump it myself. There is only one station where they do it for you. As far as I can remember the other stations have self service for decades.
Now it makes sense why now all cars have infotainment systems: To show people a step by step instructional video on how to pump they're own gas.
PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE!!! For Christ’s sake. It says you are now ALLOWED to pump your own gas. It doesn’t say you are REQUIRED to pump your own gas. I’m sure there will still be full service available to all you idiots who aparently don’t pay attention. Actually, I’m now kinda glad you are not required to pump it yourself, you probably wouldn’t pay attention to the directions and warnings then either. I’m picturing the gas pump scene in Zoolander.
I've been around for 70+ years and always had the impression that the US were a nation of early adopters of new technologies, especially where it meant less work & more profit for the supplier and more work & less product for the consumer. The change to self-service filling stations happened in the early 60's in the UK, i.e. about 50 years ago. Some of us were disturbed about it, too, but not for the reasons the Oregon folk are giving. What bothered us was that it heralded the demise of small independents & take-over of virtually all fuel retailing by Standard Oil, Shell, and British Petroleum. Also, there was no price drop, despite the fact that personal service disappeared and many attendants lost their jobs. Those Oregon folk who are upset by the loss of personal service are, in my view, justified. Automation can be brilliant, I agree, but it has never done what we were told by technocrats and politicians that it would do - reduce our need to work to survive.
I've been around for 70+ years and just when I begin to think that nothing else about people in this world can amaze me - i come across this story about Oregon folk's reaction to having to fill their petrol tanks themselves! Amazing. I'd always had the impression that, no matter how alienating or commercially corrupt it may be, the USA would always be in front in terms of making money and introducing new technologies. It was around 1965 when self service petrol stations first appeared in England and some of us were upset but not because we had to fill our own tanks, but because it accelerated the demise of independents and the transition to impersonal, large petrol stations, almost all under the control of Standard Oil, British Petroleum or Shell. It's certainly a quaint enough reaction to make one laugh but they are fortunate to have had personal service for so long and those that are bothered on that account are justified, in my view. 'Old fashioned' service was good.
I think that it would be useful for Bored Panda to prevent commenting without first being signed in. I find it annoying to come across a post when I'm not signed in, write a comment, and then be told that I have to sign in to leave a comment, after which what I've written has disappeared. Perhaps I'm as silly of some of those folk who are worried about pumping their own gas but it seems to me that the site designers could easily adjust this. However, perhaps I'm the only one that's been caught out in that way.
I pumped gas since I was 10 years old. Jeeze these people. if they can't figure out how to pump gas then they don't deserve a license.
Thanks! Not only funny, but also it's now easier to understand how Trump got into power . Is it legal to breed with vegetables in Oregon?
are they that stupid in the usa, bloody hell in australia we still pump our own petrol all self service. there isn't many if any service stations that serve people.
We're talking 2 out of 50 states here, and most people in the US (even from Oregon) are laughing at the trolls.
Load More Replies...My only complaint about pumping my own gas is when men who bathe in after shave leave excess cologne on the handle.(gag) I would rather have my hands smell of gasoline....
When I was in Oregon I stopped in a gas station. Went in to see the clerk so I could use cash to pay for the pump. They had one person at the station and she was nowhere to be found. I said forget it and just used the credit and began to pump. She runs out yelling at me "What are you doing.. do you want me to call the police?!" Then when I told her I dont know what the hell you are talking about she saw the license plates and said "You should know oregon doesnt allow self pumping." Blew my mind.
Sheesh! Crying because they now have to do a menial task of putting petrol (gasoline) into their own vehicles. Get out your big-boy, or big-girl.. or for those who wish to believe otherwise than that... their adult pants on and get over it. You don't need a high school education to do it... and even having several doctorates isn't too much, to do it yourself. Betchya didn't even cry when the grocery stores, like WalMart, added those self-checkout lines, did ya? Did you cry when your power company replaced the meters with those remote control ones? Oh, wait... did you cry when they replaced traffic cops at intersections with traffic lights? Have you complained about since fast food workers started getting $15/hr that when you go get your big-mac you now punch it into a KIOSK instead of telling the kid behind the counter what you wanted, and then paid for it?
You are allowed to pump your own gas in every country in Europe. Why is it different in some US states? It's not unsafe, it's not difficult, it's totally straightfoward and easy process. I did it when I was a kid, always asked my dad to let me do it. It's not a service "only qualifed people should do", well, perhaps in Europe everybody is qualified to pump their own gas! xD Why are some people obsessed with safety to the point that they are even scared to get out of their own car at gas station ?! It's insane. I think this is what happens when people are taught not to be responsible for thei actions, fear everything, follow manuals and instructions all the time and quit thinking so somebody else can do it for you.
I drove through NJ last year and was shocked that they can't pump their own gas. I googled why when I got home and it was some ridiculous political thing from long ago. So ridiculous!
I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is cold I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is cold sometimes and I I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is cold sometimes and I have I live in Seattle and I have to pump my own gas. And yes it is cold sometime. it's simple all you do is open up the door that covers your gasoline tank twist that open stick the nozzle into the gas tank push the button of the fuel that you want lift up on the handle of the nozzle and there is a locking device underneath or behind the handle so that you can get back into your car and wait for the gasoline to stop pumping. And if you have a diesel it's the green colored pump
Omgosh, These comments are too funny! My grandchildren knows how to pump gas and the youngest is 6..lol..And all you need to do is drive up turn your car off grab your keys lock the doors pump your gas , I like to pay at the pump so much easier. Then just put your gas lid on and drive away😂😂😂😂
This is funny. Of course, I live in NJ and we don't pump our own gas. I have lived in other states where I did. I'm now with a balance problem. I can drive but walking around isn't easy, so for that reason I'm glad. Heck, I just needed air in my tires and got someone to do it for me. Lame, I know. But he did it a helluva lot faster than I ever could.
It is always weird to me to be in Oregon and have the attendant rip the pump out of my hand and pump the gas for me, but, whatever. We've been pumping our own in CA for 40+ years. We do have full service for disabled, elderly etc, you honk and they are supposed to come out and do it for them. I guess if you don't know how to do it without dumping it all over yourself, sit in the car and honk pitifully until an attendant takes pity.
I don't know whether to be amused or frightened that there are people out there that don't know how to pump their own gas. From what I understand it said you *can* pump your own gas, not that you have to. I mean, how hard is it to plan to fill your gas at a full service gas station? But I guess people who don't know how to fill their own gas tank, might not be capable of planning how to get gas at the station that offers full service. Geebus. Every time I think Utah stinks, someone out there has to prove to me that other states are worse.
I lived in PDX and hated not being able to pump my own gas. For the full-service price you don’t get full service - no checking of oil or other fluids, no couteous, professional attendant. You get a kid who doesn’t care about his job, moves slowly, and takes 15 minutes to do. 5-minute job. I would gladly pay the full-service price to be able to pump my own gas and get out of there quicker.
Open filler flap, take cap off, insert nozzle, pull lever until you get the amount of fuel required. Surely the reddest of necks can do that?
I can't believe how ignorant these people are - you put your card into the machine - open the little door on the side of your car - put the hose in it (make sure its not the green one unless you want diesel) pull the little trigger handle and put the freaking gas in your car. Transients don't hang around gas stations to harass you - no one is going to steal your kids - lock the doors - so what you have a skirt - get off your little high horse and pump your own gas. Unless you tip the guy pumping it - he doesn't make any extra money doing it for your lazy a*s. You people need to come to Texas and see the real world LMAO.
I moved to Oregon from Colorado and it is demeaning not to be allowed to pump your own gas. You have to sit and wait for someone to come along and do for you what every other mammal has figured out, sticking a nozzle in a hole. After 7 years I still haven't gotten used to it, I always feel like the attendant should at the least hand me a coloring page and some cheap crayons while I'm waiting.
as a canadian who pumped my own gas in -25°C temp the other day (-13°f) i have to laugh. i'll just file that in with americans: still use paper dollar bills and refuse to get onboard with the rest of the world with the metric system.
First of all I didn't even know full service stations were still in existence. Second-I sat here and laughed till tears ran down my face!! Thanks guys for making my day better!!
Im from the UK, and if it isnt bad enough changing you own windscreen wipers, checking your oil, changing light bulbs and charging you battery imagine having to fill your own tank every other day coz of the high milage I do, with the constant rain we have over here, if i didnt get to fill my own taNK in the rain, I problebly wouldnt get to shower either.
I just need to know if this is a true story........I can not believe that there are people this stupid, In any state..........
I guess another good reason to NOT move to Oregon, and here I thought its citizens were rather in the know. I've been pumping my own gas since I was 16 which means, dang, 40 years. :O
Pump your gas and pay for it? Not only that, who'll pump air in the tires? Or add water to the radiator or check the oil and brake fluid? And pay for the gas? No.
I have to question whether this is fake news or not. I visited a college friend a couple summers ago and we took a trip to the pacific coast. We had to fill the car up one time and I pumped our own gas at a gas station. No attendant screamed at me and no one came out to assist me. Course I am from Kansas and have pumping my own gas since I started driving.
People are worried about losing no-skill, low-paying jobs in the area but aren't willing to pay fifty cents extra for lettuce so that migrant workers can have a decent wage. Let's just admit this isn't about safety or jobs, it's because change is scary.
so the majority of Oregon residents have never left the state? Maybe I am a crazy traveler, but I can't imagine not driving out of state EVER, and if so likely you would need gas to get back. well unless you live in Portland and drove to Vancouver for an hour.
Over here, we have basically two reasons to not even consider the possibility of letting people pump their own gas. One is that: people need the jobs. The other is basically theft and vandalism... you just can't trust people in many places here to not be a******s if given the chance. Having more employees and giving people less freedom helps to control that. That's why we only have vending machines in places like inside the subway stations or in shopping malls - they'd be easy prey in the streets.
Wait, people don't pump their own gas? I guess I'm being an ignorant Australian again, woops, I seriously thought that was just a given...
Some years ago I worked at a gas station pumping gas as well as other duties. Sometimes when it got busy people would pump their own gas. Every time that happened at least one person would have a spill on themselves or others simply because they didn't have any instruction or experience on how to do it. Not everyone is mechanically adept.
I wouldn't mind the "full service" in Oregon if it was truly "full service." I'm in Oregon a few times a year. If someone else needs to fill my tank, they can also clean my windows and check under the hood. That's what "full service" meant 30 years ago!
You mean there's a law against pumping your own gas in Oregon? That just boggles my mind. I've had the rare occasion when an attendant pumped gas for me, and found it quaint, if a little weird. I thought that kind of stuff ended in the 70's
Man... I was raised in Canada and then moved to Australia. I was told by my Dad not to go to the states because there are very stupid people live there. Dad also added They are all rejects from canada when they first arrived in canada from other countries in the world and if they did not answer 1 easy question they had to go to the states. That question was " Are you willing to pump your own gas?" They said no and then Canadian government bought them a greyhound ticket and sent them to Oregon. True story.
maybe the loss of dignity Oregon has just suffered will get people will stop moving here.
To the people who say they should have attendants because it creates jobs. So you’re saying a private business should have to incur the cost of employing an attendant because it creates a job? In that case, why not make a law that every grocery store should have an attendant to carry people’s groceries to their car?
To all Oregonians. If you don't want to smell of gasoline simply use your lighter to burn the excess fuel off the nozzle while you are pumping the gas into your car. This will also kill the germs of the 50 plus people that handled the nozzle before you got there.
Yeah, and putting your IPhone in the microwave for 4 minutes speeds up the processor.
Load More Replies...In case anyone else is wondering what other state where you don't pump your own gas is: New Jersey. I must say, reading those comments gave me quite the self-confidence boost! I've never felt so much like a mature and capable adult! I've lived in Iowa, Oklahoma, and Texas and I've always pumped my own gas. It's not particulary fun or enjoyable or anything but you do it because you have too and there are far worse things in life.
...Look at the bright side. If they don't want or can't pump their own gas, they will be looking for another option. Like hiring a person to do it for them and pay them out of their own wallets (which means a new career opportunity, Overseer of Gasoline Distribution, could be illegal though as they new employees need to register for tax) or they can use a bike (which is way more nature-friendly).
These people are too funny. In Chicago we have been pumping our own gas for decades.
I'm originally from WA. Drives me crazy to have to wait for someone to pump my gas here in Oregon.
I drove through Oregon in 2008 and stopped for gas. Pumped it myself because i didn't know such a stupid-a*s law existed. Some guy (the attendant, I assume) came out and wrote down my license plate info. I found out why later from someone who knew about the law. I honestly feel like the only reason I didn't get a ticket (or something) in the mail was because the local DMV had given me the wrong plates. (a whole different story) The plates on my vehicle weren't assigned to anybody.
I’ve been on this Earth, driving my car for 30 years. Never have I ever seen, nor concerned myself with “transients”. If Oregonians are sincerely worried about these “Transients attacking” then the state has larger problems than pumping ones own gas. Oh, and by the way, if you were handicapped or disabled there are pumps that you go to where the attendant will come out and pump your gas. The other 48 states United States do not forsake those populations. Yikes, Oregon.
At first I thought this was a satire piece. Talk about FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS!!! Can anyone tell me WHY Oregon has not kept up with modern life??
Pumping gas was my first job in high school. Now that job doesn't exist and how many people are unemployed? Not a good law.
But what will become of the Refueler's Pride Parade, when we celebrate those intrepid souls who risk life and limb EVERY DAY to make sure vehicles are fueled properly?! Not to mention the Professional Refueler's Union (local 182) and the beloved magazine, Refueler's Quarterly. This truly is the end of days.
Oh.....my......wow.......in Iowa, right this very moment, there are people (including elderly, people with disability's, and do i dare say parents with kids) pumping their own gas *gasp* and to top it off its been like -20 without the wind chill factor * double gasp*!!! Not to mention its been snowing and windy, other people have used the nozzle, AND there are people standing by the door!!!!! Guess what *triple gasp* no one walked away smelling like gas, no one's children were abducted, and lord have mercy someone who isnt "a trained professional" or a relative helped the elderly so they didnt have to get out in the cold. Grow up Oregon and learn how to pump gas......its not rocket science!!!
What happens when the pumps don't worK? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x683nrt
It is very easy. I would rather do it myself. Not helpless. Or maybe they are too lazy or entitled. Oh my dear lord.
You still have people just to pump gas for you? What year are you living in, América? :D
trust me, where I live, it's juuuusst about thirty years behind the times so...yeah about that old. The older folks are living in the 50's at the most.
Load More Replies...This must be what people talk about when they mention "privilege" . Because honestly I have never seen so many whiny and spoiled humans in my life. Seriously Boo-hoo you have to pump your own gas... *eyeroll*
I'm speechless! I was pumping gas into my parent's cars as soon as I could reach the handles. (Rural Virginia). Back in the 70's before unleaded was invented, and children were convienent unpaid servants.
I was a transient. I was able to steal a car with children in it while some terrible parent was pumping their own gas in rural montana. Because of that experience, I was able to raise the kids, met a nice woman to care for them, go to law school, clerk for a supreme court justice and now we moved back to Oregon and I'm running for governor. I will support keeping this new law because I want other transients to have the opportunities I've had. Oregon has been anti-transient for too long. Transient Lives Matter!
I don't mind it if someone fills my tank for me, it is a nice luxury, but for the most part 99% of the time I do it myself. I guess when you are told something enough times, like your job is being taken, you start to believe it. The human mind is susceptible to suggestion.
Oregon people are just f*****g LAZY ! Its not I can not pump gas because I do not know how , all I will smell gas .Just why should I do it myself if someone does it for me and I do not have to move my a*s out of the car ? Just admit it, you're F*****G LAZY OREGON .
I was born and grew up in Greece where it's almost unheard of to pump your own gas. There's always someone to do it for you (plus they'd be rather mad if you tried to do it yourself). When I moved to the Netherlands and had to do it myself the first time I was completely puzzled and found it rather hard. But I was also surprised to see how natural it was for the others. I can understand the sentiment of the people being reluctant but of course their reactions and arguments are indeed ridiculous.
Hi! Ob-gyn physician from Ohio, I have actually pumped my own gas, petrified I would injure my surgery performing hands or splatter gas into my eyes, so necessary for examining patients and seeing to operate or deliver babies. Never had anybody break into my car while fueling. Never had my car explode (I turned it off before putting gas in.) Hate gassing up in the winter, though. We are in single digits now, so frostbite could happen in that 3-5 minute window.
So obviously that car insurance commercial where they didn't even know what a lug wrench was, must be in Oregon. No wonder they had the self sufficient ranchers gunned down out there, they made the rest of you look like the pathetic wastes of sperm & egg you obviously are. God help you if Korea actually sends a missle your direction and you lose all power, you'll be totally screwed.
As a Washingtonian I really couldn't help my laughter at our region's neighbor.
Oh my goodness. Oregon (and New Jersey, I think) should get with the program. Maybe they could have the option for full service but self service would be less expensive. It is literally not that hard to not spill gas on yourself. Smh.
Yikes. The whole reason this is a thing, is because it EMPLOYS more people. Looks like you got egg on yours face there, pal.
Load More Replies...Why only the rural areas ? City people too stupid to pump their own gasoline ? I'll respond my own question ...The answer is Portland
I was distracted when I first read this: I thought it stated that we have to pump our own Oregonians, but in Colorado they will pump your Oregonian for you. And 47 other states, too. Well, I was wrong. Whew.
I've pumped my own gas since I was 17, I've only had an attendant do it on a handful of occasions and they were all abroad. Here in Ireland vehicle fuel is a very minor part of what can be bought at a petrol station.
Come to New Jersey, we still can't pump our own gas. I have to drive to Pennsyl-freakin'-vania to pump it myself.
How will we recognize the stations that will let us do that? Or do we just sit until we figure it out?
Well, Oregon isn't known for it's rocket scientist, brain surgeons, and MENSA members. Having seen these comments, I would be very reluctant to move to Oregon.
I literally fell out of my chair laughing so hard at the comments !!!!!!! This made my day.... "I'm typing this with my tongue".... BWAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!
The first time I was in Oregon, I stopped to get some fuel, and the attendant nearly had a fit when I took matters into my own hands. I couldn't understand why he insisted that he was going to pump the gas. I kept saying, I got it, bro. Thanks, though. Finally he explained that the LAW states that he needs to pump the gas. Ah. I finally got it. He probably thought I was some sort of dimwit.
https://youtu.be/IdOF7xg5lug "Oh my god! That man's trying to pump his own gas!"
I never realized how hard I had it living in a backwards state where you have to pump your own gas?? I guess it's just become a normal thing for me fighting off transients and kidnappers while in a skirt in the snow. Maybe I need to move to Oregon where life is better and I'm not expected to do simple everyday tasks...
It’s nice to have your gas pumped, I always do it when I am in Oregon.
I've never been anyplace where you DIDN'T have to pump your own gas for the last thirty years or so. Now I feel like Big Oil has been using me and I didn't even realize it.
Is this a real outrage? lol I feel like if you can't get your butt out and pump your own gas like everyone else you are seriously touched in the head lol.
And these same people are allowex to operate a motor vehicle. If you choos eto pay extra for someone ot pump your fuel, then that s your prerogative, but to demand it on the grounds of being incapable really says a lot about these Oregonians.
I USE TO LOVE THE SOME OF "REGULAR" GAS WHEN THERE WAS "REGULSR GAS"! WEIRD I KNOW!
There's maybe 20 people in Oregon who have anything negative to say about this new law, and yeah they all deserve ridicule.
Seeing all the people who are upset about the pumping their own gas shows that there is a market opportunity for people who want their gas pumped for them. Sounds like a job opportunity. Why are we making fun of these people who clearly feel like they need help at the pump? In other countries they have these services and its very convenient! This drama around the responses is not needed, and not news worthy at all. Pure shameful gossip.
Guys, seriously? I'm an Oregon native - I've lived here for most of my life. It's been this way for ages, and do you want to know why? It's because it keeps people EMPLOYED. Don't call Oregonians stupid just because you don't understand that. This is something we've had for a very long time, and for me it's disheartening to hear that it could be changing solely for this reason. I don't want to see Gas Stations getting cheap and laying people off. Not cool.
So why should an private business how to incur then cost of employing somebody for the sole reason that it employs somebody? They should have a law for designated cart pushers at the grocery store then.
Load More Replies...why is this a surprise for everyone?Let's be realistic USA is the country with most stupid and lazy people from the entire world..and that's not something new!
Yeah, stereotyping is really the way to make the peace in the world (says a European girl who finds the complaining people ridiculous).
Load More Replies...Maybe they should learn to READ before trying something as complicated as filling their own fuel tank! Quote: "allows people in rural areas to pump their own gas" Maybe buy a dictionary too since the word "allows" is not the same as "requires". For you dimwitted Oregonians that means it is "voluntary". You have a choice. What is it you fear? How to insert credit card? Remembering your zip code? Pressing yes for receipt? How to open gas door and remove cap? Which button to press? 87, 89, 91, 93? Better live in fear of that GREEN nozzle if your vehicle is NOT a diesel.
Fear that we will have more unemployed folk perhaps. Why don't you read about why we have this law in place before being so judgmental?
Load More Replies...That's all Oregonians need, another way to get dysentery on that dreadful trail. it's a miracle they have not gone extinct as it is.
I empathize with the Oregon people. pumping your own gas is horrible and I hate having to do it!
Why should a business have to incur the cost of employing someone only because it gives someone job?
Load More Replies...How did someone "die" and then tweet their story? Seems a bit fake to me.
What? I like the smell of gasoline. What is your point?
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