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question everything

(52,392 posts)
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 10:39 PM Feb 2019

"Selling it" on Consumer Reports

Each issue has pictures submitted by subscribers with funny typos, or syntax or conjunctions of items.

This last one has a picture of a fuel pump from a gas station and there is a warning: "Put nozzle in tank before fueling." CR titled it "Gas Pumping for Dummies." And then I remembered a movie where several guys met at the gas station and started spritzing each other from the nozzles as it they were water. And then, of course, someone lit a match..


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"Selling it" on Consumer Reports (Original Post) question everything Feb 2019 OP
Well, how about the guy who tried to kill the spider at the gas station csziggy Feb 2019 #1
Zoolander Flaleftist Feb 2019 #2
Yup! That's it question everything Feb 2019 #6
no fair IcyPeas Feb 2019 #3
Here it is question everything Feb 2019 #7
It is illegal to pump your gas in Oregon. We have highly trained technicians. Sneederbunk Feb 2019 #4
True in New Jersey also. Totally Tunsie Feb 2019 #5
Really? I remember when first started one could save a quarter by self filling question everything Feb 2019 #8

IcyPeas

(25,781 posts)
3. no fair
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 11:01 PM
Feb 2019

I have a digital subscription and I don't get these pictures. I like stuff like that.

On the gas thing, I saw a kid taking the nozzle out too soon and it was still pumping, he got it all over himself, he must have been pressing on the handle.

question everything

(52,392 posts)
8. Really? I remember when first started one could save a quarter by self filling
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 01:11 PM
Feb 2019

We lived in Iowa, had a visitor from a warmer climate who was willing to pay the extra and stay warm inside the car.

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