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Yea, yea, yea. Politics and all that crap aside, it is nice to have someone pump the gas, clean the windshield, check the oil and tires. It reminds me of the old days when the word "service" in "service station" had meaning.

Last Saturday I cracked up when I saw a bride, in full wedding dress, at a gas station pumping her own gas. Oh, for the good old days, when the winters were milder, summers cooler and everyone I knew, including me, was younger.

In the old days you had the freedom to choose between Self Serve or Full Serve, that's the point.
I travel from Washington to The People's Republic of Fruits and Nuts from time to time and nothing irritates me more than not being able to pump my own gas.

No, the law states that they will only pump your gas! It says nothing about the "attendant" washing the windshield, checking the oil, etc. They are usually to busy walking, not running, around to the other cars to fill them up also.

If your in a hurry forget it. I was raised in Washington and was trained earlier on how to pump my own gas. This is nothing but and never has been anything but a JOBS program in the state with the highest unemployment in the US. Unfortunately I had to live in that state from 4/2000 until 6/2002.

Don't forget about the wonderful bottle bill law. You are forced to pay 5 cents deposit on pop and beer. Then the store owner installs return machines. These machines are the "great equalizer" of the masses. They are filthy, sticky, and stink, but ALL must use them to return their empties. It is my opinion that these machines are also rigged to reject a certain number of cans, which enables the store to make a nice extra little profit. The cans must be in pristine condition so the machine can scan the UPC mark, therefore you can't crush them. This then forces a person to dedicate a large portion of their garage to hold the bags of empties before returning them.

And if that is not bad enough, the return machines are programmed to accept all brand name items and only the store brand items. This means that if you buy Safeway brand pop, you can't take it back to Albertsons and vice versa.

I purposely would buy my beverages in Washington and throw them in the trash to the utter horror of my co-workers.

Oregon makes me want to puke!!!