Newfoundland is most definitely NOT the same as TorontoI KNOW! but what makes you think I'm from (shudder) TORONTO?! Please! gaaaaahhhhhhh! I'm from Kingston (it's slightly less bad).
Maybe nozzle locks, vacuum whatsits or whatever, are an Ontario phenom?
I remember filling up at a station in Brockville (getting closer to you, Bean, by a very little bit!
) and not only was there no nozzle lock, but you had to flip a metal plate from one side to t'other in order to get the petrol flowing. I had not encountered this before (have only been filling up a car - mine own! - since 1998!) so I stood there at the pump, with the nozzle in the gas tank, wondering why nothing was happening when I squeezed the trigger (hey, maybe it should've been called a trigger lock!) - until...the station attendant got on the intercom to the pump island and told me what I had to do. Just a very little bit embarrassing....When are They going to standardise petrol pumps, anyway?!
