---- Rob <vwrobb@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> At  6/19/2014 10:28 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>
> >  .
> >Here's a unique and amusing gas station thing...In Oregon they have a law
> >that prohibits you from pumping your own gasoline...so when you get gas
> >there you hand the gas jockey your key and your credit card or cash and sit
> >there while he/she pumps it,...
>
>
> Once I was getting gas in Oregon, I've handed her my key, card & I'm
> waiting. It's been too long, I get out & go around to see her
> twisting the key in the lock. The lock was not moving, just the
> key.... It didn't break.
> I hate buying gas in Oregon, one bad experience <g>.
>
> Rob
> vwrobb@gmail.com

Whenever in Oregon I always open and close the gas cap myself.  No attendant has ever refused to allow that.  I also ran into self service in Oregon, though I was not allowed to use it.  There was (at least in 2012) a chain of stations where members of the public could pay a small amount of money to buy a "share" of the company.  Then they were allowed to fill their own tanks at those stations.  In fact, there wasn't even an employee present at the station.  The pump was unlocked with a code.  I don't know if these stations are still operating.
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David McNeely