Getting back into the car while your gas is pumping

[JuanHamm]

Do any of you do this? (Trag?)

Is it as dangerous as they say?

Do you look down on people that do it?

Let's talk

[bart]

Why would this be dangerous?

[JuanHamm]

Why would this be dangerous?

" Don't get back in your vehicle when re-fueling. A small amount of static electricity can build up and cause a spark when you touch the metal, which could be dangerous when mixed with gasoline vapors "

[tree_]

I am one of these people. Haven't caused an explosion yet.

[JuanHamm]

I am one of these people. Haven't caused an explosion yet.

Only when it's cold?

[tree_]

all the time baby

i also leave it pumping while i run in the store and grab a beer

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[BurtReynolds]

I will. Or I'll go inside and buy something. I don't give an F

[spike]

Burt probably keeps the car running.

[tree_]

Anybody ever forget to remove the pump before driving off?

[BurtReynolds]

Burt probably keeps the car running.

no comment.

[BurtReynolds]

Anybody ever forget to remove the pump before driving off?

I never did that for decades, but recently I've been so distracted I've done it like 3 times.

[warehouse]

tree solidifies himself as a terrible driver

[tree_]

Anybody ever forget to remove the pump before driving off?

I never did that for decades, but recently I've been so distracted I've done it like 3 times.

Did the hose disconnect from the pumper and remain in your car as you drove down the road? I saw that happen in St. Louis once.

[bart]

A couple months ago I was a little under the weather and had a terrible day at work, stopped to get gas and started filling while the car was still running.

[BurtReynolds]

Anybody ever forget to remove the pump before driving off?

I never did that for decades, but recently I've been so distracted I've done it like 3 times.

Did the hose disconnect from the pumper and remain in your car as you drove down the road? I saw that happen in St. Louis once.

It pops off. Sometimes you can pop it back in. Last time I couldn't, so I told the clerk that it just fell off and then I left.

[tree_]

[epilogue]

In New Jersey it's illegal to pump your own gas. The attendant has to do it.

[B]

Fuckin' unions.

I don't get back in my car, but I have talked on my cell phone.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

No.