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#93088 01/23/03 12:25 PM
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We don't have'em here (unless the station is full-serve and then only the gas bar person gets to use them). So I don't know the name for them. But my dear WW, if you had worn your toque, mitts, and scarf, like a good girl, you wouldn't've been too cold to stand outside by your car now, would you? (I'm just teasing of course.)


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'gas bar' also sounds like a place where young men go to, um, fart. In groups. Stay away!!!!!!!


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Gas bar strikes me as funny, too! Gee, do they proffer a snifter of each octane so you can test the bouquet?
Our schools are closed today, too, and we only got about an inch.
My guess is that what you're asking about is called the lock-down bar or something like that, but. I just called my friend who works at a BP station, and he didn't know. But he said if he finds out, he'll call me back.



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What are those hold-click things called that enable you to get back into your car when it's 13 degrees Farenheit outside while your tank fills up with gas?


Door handles? Or is there some special mechanism to enable USns to get into their cars during cold weather?

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#93095 01/23/03 02:23 PM
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[regarding above exchange] I think this is what them cross-ponders mean when they say USns don't "get" irony....


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Round this part of the country they usually call them non-functional


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Well, Dub-Dub, I pumped gas, and we always just called it the "nozzle lock".


Only in this case, it locks the nozzle open to keep the gas flowing, so you can attend to other customers at the same time. Which made for a lot of mighty messes in the days before computerized timers on the pumps...because if you didn't orchestrate your timing properly the nozzle would spill onto the pavement, or sometimes even pop out of the full gas tank and start snaking around the lot with a jet-propelled geyser of gas. You could only pray, then, that no one around had a lit cigarette.

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