EcuPirate07
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Do you still have gas station attendants?
So I was vacationing with my Family in Hilton Head, SC but I had to leave today to drive back home to NC due to work. So I left my family there and came home by myself. I stop to get gas somewhere in SC at a Pilot gas station. As i'm filling up this guy in a gold mini van pulls up directly across the pump from me (if we both were looking at the pump we would be looking at each other)
So here I am a 31 year old male in ray bans, a white tee, athletic shorts and flip flops leaning on my vehicle while pumping my gas. As he gets out of his van, he says "hey Buddy" to which I kinda cock my head in his directions and his son is there too, so I think he is talking to his son. He proceeds to pop his gas tank lid and then I hear "just fill it up for me" again I cock my head toward him thinking he is talking to his son and then look back at my gas pump. Then I see that he and his son leave to go inside and his other son is passed out in the front seat. So I assume he had someone else on the other side of the pump paying for the gas getting ready to pump....NOPE! Then it dawns on me, this guy thinks i'm a gas attendant and is wanting me to fill up his mini van. So I did the only right thing to do. I filled my vehicle with gas, put up the pump and drove away with his mini van sitting there waiting for gas. as i leave i see his plate and he is from Ohio.
One of two things probably happened after I left, 1- He came out and thought I was a jackass for not pumping his gas or 2- He realized what a jackass he was for asking a total stranger to pump his gas.
Is this common up north to have gas attendants? Ive lived in the south my whole life and we have never had them and just figured that was a thing of the past like the Model T I kinda just laughed about the whole situation once I got on the road and had to call my wife about it.
So I was vacationing with my Family in Hilton Head, SC but I had to leave today to drive back home to NC due to work. So I left my family there and came home by myself. I stop to get gas somewhere in SC at a Pilot gas station. As i'm filling up this guy in a gold mini van pulls up directly across the pump from me (if we both were looking at the pump we would be looking at each other)
So here I am a 31 year old male in ray bans, a white tee, athletic shorts and flip flops leaning on my vehicle while pumping my gas. As he gets out of his van, he says "hey Buddy" to which I kinda cock my head in his directions and his son is there too, so I think he is talking to his son. He proceeds to pop his gas tank lid and then I hear "just fill it up for me" again I cock my head toward him thinking he is talking to his son and then look back at my gas pump. Then I see that he and his son leave to go inside and his other son is passed out in the front seat. So I assume he had someone else on the other side of the pump paying for the gas getting ready to pump....NOPE! Then it dawns on me, this guy thinks i'm a gas attendant and is wanting me to fill up his mini van. So I did the only right thing to do. I filled my vehicle with gas, put up the pump and drove away with his mini van sitting there waiting for gas. as i leave i see his plate and he is from Ohio.
One of two things probably happened after I left, 1- He came out and thought I was a jackass for not pumping his gas or 2- He realized what a jackass he was for asking a total stranger to pump his gas.
Is this common up north to have gas attendants? Ive lived in the south my whole life and we have never had them and just figured that was a thing of the past like the Model T I kinda just laughed about the whole situation once I got on the road and had to call my wife about it.