It should be illegal to leave your car parked at the pump

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Anonymous wrote:I have never gone inside tp pay and I’m fifty years old. It’s not a difficult transaction.

Then you come from a privileged lifestyle.

Yes. When Mobile came out with the pay at the pump option in the 1980's, they were the expensive gas. It was at least 5 cents a gallon more there, usually more like 10-12 cents. And the discount gas store was usually a cash only store. And there were no parking spaces by the little building in the middle. So you had to leave your car parked at the pump and walk in.

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08/13/2019 22:25

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:It's super rude, I agree. Even if other pumps are open, you still need to move into a real parking spot. The pump is not a parking spot. It is where your car goes while you are filling it with gas, the end.

The same applies for spots with electric vehicle charging stations. Sometimes it's even worse. People will park in those spots for hours and not charge.

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08/14/2019 08:54

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Anonymous

It should be illegal for OP to post threads like this

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08/14/2019 10:33

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Anonymous

We've been warned to by the police where I live to reconsider walking in to pay for gas.

In my county we've had unending problems with identity theft via gas payments at the pump. I was told some time ago that some of the pumps transmit the data to the building via an unsecured network and people who park nearby can capture the data.

Many of us have noticed our credit cards being used fraudently after using the pumps at specific gas stations.

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08/18/2019 13:01

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Anonymous

Other then having to pay inside or get a receipt it’s simply rude to leave the car at the pump at a busy station. People who do this don’t give a damn about their fellow pumpers.

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08/18/2019 13:06

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:If you have a problem waiting 30 seconds for me to grab a coffee then buy a Tesla and charge it at home.

You think it takes 30 seconds for you to go inside, order a coffee, pay for it, get the coffee, put your sugar/cream whatever in it, stir it up, and return to move your car from a place it shouldn't be in the first instance? Hmmm. Starting to sense the issue here.

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08/26/2019 00:56

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Anonymous

So we were just coming back from a weekend trip to Pennsylvania when I saw this on the pump. It made me think of this thread.