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To: DFG

This is funny.

Though I do remember the days when attendants would pump the gas, clean your windows and check your oil as a routine thing.

Big gas stations used to give out green stamps and some would give you gifts like balloons for the kids or a drinking glass.

But even then everybody still knew how to pump their own gas.


11 posted on 01/03/2018 11:28:38 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

As a teenager, I worked at a “service station”. I fixed flat tires, changed light and signal bulbs, oil changes, washer fluid, new tires, etc....

I also worked the “full service” pumps. These were a set of pumps where people could pay a little more per gallon and I would pump their gas, clean their windows, check their oil and check their tire pressures if necessary. I would check anything they asked for. And now and then, I even got a tip.

I met some odd and sometimes lewd folks in those days (1980s) doing that job. I got the best tips on the coldest and wettest days and some times late at night.

Ahhh. The good ol days. LMAO!


28 posted on 01/03/2018 11:37:41 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being rich or stupid!)
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To: LouieFisk
Big gas stations used to give out green stamps and some would give you gifts like balloons for the kids or a drinking glass.

Or an inflatable green dinosaur!

45 posted on 01/03/2018 11:46:04 AM PST by null and void (Have a MAGAnificent New Year! It'll be YUGE!)
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To: LouieFisk

“Though I do remember the days when attendants would pump the gas, clean your windows and check your oil as a routine thing.”

I did that as a kid. Not a bad first job.

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77 posted on 01/03/2018 12:08:41 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: LouieFisk

My daughter and I were talking about the days when I would give the attendant $5 and tell him to fill it up. He did all the other things too. Those days are long gone.


115 posted on 01/03/2018 1:20:19 PM PST by MamaB (Heb :)
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To: LouieFisk
Heck...I recall a Flying Horse Mobil gas sign as a kid....

There was a caged enclosure with monkeys in it...right there at the station...You could feed them peanuts if you wanted....

.Anaheim, CA...around 1961-62 or so...

Checked your oil...pumped your gas..and washed the windows.

146 posted on 01/03/2018 8:26:59 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: LouieFisk

“Though I do remember the days when ...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lH3On2-GNo


170 posted on 01/05/2018 1:10:03 PM PST by Pelham (all warfare is based on deception)
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