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Posted: 11/24/2005 3:33:37 PM EDT
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 Was this in Austin? |
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Posted: 11/24/2005 5:43:28 PM EDT
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A guy in the next island pulled to far forward of the pumps. He opened his door and while looking behind him he backed up. Unfortunately his open door got hung up on the island guard post and bent it open about 120 degrees. Over the years I've seen three cars pull away from the pump with the nozzle still in the filler pipe of the car. |
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Posted: 11/24/2005 5:50:51 PM EDT
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If that's the stupidest thing that has happened in your life so far, you are lucky. No one died or got hurt.
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Posted: 11/24/2005 7:11:09 PM EDT
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No, that means that we as humans learn from our mistakes. That, and the lawyers made them do it. Bob |
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Posted: 11/24/2005 11:42:09 PM EDT
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OK, you've beat yourself up enough on this little goof.
 Now take the therapeutic step of making a list for yourself of a bunch of the BIG and IMPORTANT things you've done RIGHT. Like when you've saved somone's butt, stopped a crime, helped someone get over being a victim, helped a friend in need, given some good advice etc. Everybody has an occasional short-term memory lapse, right? It's not a character defect. It's a measure of your good nature that you even volunteered your mistake here. Don't worry - your buddy will save you the trouble of putting it up on the bulletin board.....  |
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Posted: 11/24/2005 11:46:24 PM EDT
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I could actually understand how that might happen. But what kills me is seeing someone grind the ignition on a car that's already been started! Arghhhhhhhhhh! That kills me. AndI have seen some people do that repeatedly. You just want to choke them. Violently. LOL.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 12:08:11 AM EDT
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Oh, Sherrick! You don't know how much you made my day. 50 bucks will keep my mouth shut! 
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Posted: 11/25/2005 12:14:22 AM EDT
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Yeah, you suck.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 3:17:35 AM EDT
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Well I haven't yet today but it's only 7:19 AM. Give me time.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 4:48:18 AM EDT
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And as we all get older, we will realize there are ALWAYS opportunities to top your last performance .
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Posted: 11/25/2005 5:30:41 AM EDT
[#11]
STFU or 
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Posted: 11/25/2005 5:31:05 AM EDT
[#12]
I saw some asshat get a honda civic stuck like that,boy was he pissed.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 5:34:18 AM EDT
[#13]
 State law?
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Posted: 11/25/2005 5:51:17 AM EDT
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I did it on surveillance once about 5 years ago. It was at the Texaco station at 21st & Lewis in Tulsa. It was about oh-dark-thirty in the morning and I was still about half asleep. I was pumping gas into my vehicle and went in for coffee. My partner called on the radio and said the suspect was already moving (we didn't expect them for a couple more hours at least) I ran out to my car and drove off with the pump handle still stuck in my tank. I didn't make it out of the parking lot because I stopped as soon as I heard the "thunk". Luckily there was an automatic shu-off switch at a socket connection where the fuel hose meets the pump so the pump stopped and not a lot of gas was spilled. The attendant sent out a mechanic (full service station) who had just arrived for work. He hooked the hose back up as easily as putting a socket on the end of a rachet wrench.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 6:09:22 AM EDT
[#15]
+1 |
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Posted: 11/25/2005 6:10:26 AM EDT
[#16]
Don't worry about it.
Sounds like if you live long enough you'll do something far more stupid than that! 
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Posted: 11/25/2005 7:10:24 AM EDT
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It is in Oregon, that was WIERD. I wonder what prompts those laws? |
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Posted: 11/25/2005 8:54:56 AM EDT
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You stopped a 7-11??? How fast was it going? |
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Posted: 11/25/2005 8:56:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/25/2005 9:00:13 AM EDT
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Yup. Its nice not having to get outa the car.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 9:04:25 AM EDT
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Well, atleast you didn't get on an internet board and tell everyone about it - oh, wait a minute...
Ahh, don't sweat it, bud - I'm sure it *could* have turned out worse... - georgestrings |
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Posted: 11/25/2005 9:08:15 AM EDT
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High school test scores? 
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Posted: 11/25/2005 9:15:56 AM EDT
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Alberta Canada is that way too. First time I hopped out and started pumping gas into the rental car some young lady looked at me like I was a lunatic.  (Every gas pumper in Canada is a usually hot young lady, though it can be kind of hard to tell thru the snowsuit) We stopped for gas a lot. That whole liters to gallons vs miles to kilometers thing.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 11:32:46 AM EDT
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Fortunately, you didn't endanger anyone, like those other folks with memory loss.....
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Posted: 11/25/2005 11:34:48 AM EDT
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Whoa! IN plates, IL locus, NE fan. Nice combo.  |
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Posted: 11/25/2005 11:59:59 AM EDT
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My buddy did that one day but he was stoned, You were to wernt YaWernt Ya!!
I laughed my ass off
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Posted: 11/25/2005 12:02:38 PM EDT
[#27]
Do you alsor leave the men's room with your monster hanging out of your pants?
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Posted: 11/25/2005 12:03:31 PM EDT
[#28]
Really, if that's the stupidest thing you've ever done I think your way ahead of the game.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 1:22:29 PM EDT
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Hey man, at least I get around!
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Posted: 11/25/2005 1:26:17 PM EDT
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+1 |
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Posted: 11/25/2005 1:27:39 PM EDT
[#31]
Tag
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Posted: 11/25/2005 1:28:15 PM EDT
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I did it too once, when I was in high school at the end of a long workshift.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 2:40:44 PM EDT
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I saw a gal at a gas station drive her fender straight into the steel concrete filled barrier by the gas pump.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 8:50:57 PM EDT
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Should I tell Ted or Rick? |
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Posted: 11/25/2005 10:14:58 PM EDT
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Gas stations screw up, too. The guy I worked for didn't maintain his nozzles, and the automatic shut-off failed. A bunch went into the trunk of a Porche while I was washing his windows. He was pi**ed.
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Posted: 11/25/2005 10:24:36 PM EDT
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LOL, you have just lived my greatest fear of pumping gas (not that there's exactly all that many fears I have about the process...).
I didn't know it happened so often though. It is a mistake I think everyone has at least come somewhat close to making. Worry not
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Posted: 11/25/2005 10:41:39 PM EDT
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Never fuel up at 4:21
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Posted: 11/25/2005 10:59:37 PM EDT
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That is the state law in OR and NJ. They let truck drivers pump diesel though. |
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Posted: 11/25/2005 10:59:45 PM EDT
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Got a better one. I worked at a convenience store and stopped in on my day off. Cop friend of mine is just leaving as I get there putting his wife and five kids in a truck that's pulling a boat. when I get to the counter the newbie clerk says she's got a drive off. I check the surveillence tape and sure enough it's my cop friend. He and his wife came in tith all the kids, paid seperately and no one paid for the gas. I pay it knowing he's good for it and go about my day. He comes scrambling back into the place, after I've gone and the clerk on duty is gone. Spends two hours with the next clerk trying to figure out what happened. Dreading the thought that the rest of the PD would find out what happened.
He paid me back but he was mad as hell about the wanted posters that I gave to the other cops that came in the store.
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