Most pumps have a button where you can set desired quantity (either money or litres). So if I wanted £30 you just select that and fire and forget. That said, $20 would buy you a dribble over here.
Yeah they do, but I just wanted my tank filled, so I didn't ever give an amount. The guy filling it would have no way to know what the closest round amount is, since tanks vary how much they can hold. Hell he may have put a limit and my car just didn't hit it because it only needs like 8 gallons added to be full typically.
There was no reason the amount needed to be round. I was paying with a card, not cash. He was just weird and compulsive about it. Luckily they eventually made topping off illegal (because the pump stopped because your tank is full!!) so people quit that nonsense.
Looked it up.
Self-service is illegal in the entire state of New Jersey.
The rural counties in Oregon (over 40,000 residents): Baker, Clatsop, Crook, Curry, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Tillamook, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, and Wheeler.
The towns of Huntington, New York and Weymouth, Massachusetts.
All stations in Oregon are required to have an attendant except some rural counties, because that requirement was resulting in no stations being open a lot of times. Otherwise stations can be 50/50 full service or self service and you choose which one you want.
The only plausible argument for keeping Full Serve stations in the modern day is that handicapped people won't have to get out to pump gas. And from my POV, people so handicapped that they can't get out of the vehicle to pump their own gas driving around kinda scares me. Driving requires solid reaction time and being able to quickly hit the brakes if needbe. If you are so handicapped that you can't physically get out of your car and take 5 steps to the gas pump, I have my doubts that you'll be able to stop a car quickly when the moment requires it.
As mentioned, being able to walk and being able to control a car are two totally different things. And if you have an automatic, you could have one perfectly working leg and drive a regular car fine but still struggle to walk, you know.
The main reason for it is to increase jobs though, I think. That's kinda silly to me personally, but I love not having to get out in the rainy cold to pump gas, so I appreciate it. Safety was also used as a justification in the past: it prevents people from smoking while pumping, spilling gas everywhere, putting it in containers that they shouldn't, etc. However now you can pump it yourself if you want, so that justification is kinda out (although there's generally an attendant around so they might notice, at least). I feel like they would also be more likely to notice a card skimmer added, since they use the pumps so much.
You don't have to use an attendant if you don't want to. They never expect tips, that's not a thing. It's purely optional, and the only possible downside is waiting a couple of minutes if the attendant is busy.
Pumping gas myself is fine, but it's nice not to have to.
I was only 34 and felt like an old man instantly.
I have only used tap since then unless its not available... which is basically ONLY AT GAS STATIONS.
I love using my phone to tap. It's so much easier to dig out than a credit card, and it hides my real card number, so no risk of fraud.
