Oregon: Pump Your Own Gas Crisis

[Fife]

Yeah, it's $4.95 per order for the service, so it only makes sense for me when I have a sizable order and when the store is crowded. It is nice to not have to deal with the in-store bullshit after a long day at work though.


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[The Conservative]

I am going to go ahead and come down on the side of banning self-checkout at the grocery store.

Fuck that noise. When it is busy, it takes just as long to get through self-checkout, and I haven't seen any meaningful savings on groceries since they've been put in.

All they do is turn me into an unpaid employee of the grocery store.

Fuck self-checkout lines all the way.

I refuse to use self-checkout myself unless I get a discount I will always bypass self-checkout if I have a choice.

[Okeefenokee]

get fucked lady you have no taste, leave me alone.

all this bullshit that holds up my fuckin line, these people are looking for friends and I don't want to be their fucking friend.

[Okeefenokee]

I have never been asked for any of that at Walmart, but at Savemart and Walgreens, I'm asked for my loyalty card every time.

The commissaries on Army posts made it mandatory a couple of years back.

You don't even get any discounts or deals for being any kind of rewards member, they just mandated everyone scan their ID card so they could sell the advertising data.

[Fife]

get fucked lady you have no taste, leave me alone.

all this bullshit that holds up my fuckin line, these people are looking for friends and I don't want to be their fucking friend.

I feel ya mike. Those places stress me out.

[Penner]

And now the water mains are breaking from the prolonged deep freeze. Stay warm!

Yeah, that happened yesterday in another part of my hometown- we have to boil our water now. What is going in your neck of the woods/area? How was the "bomb cyclone"?

Right now it's windy, bitter cold; around 0. High of 10 degrees tomorrow. We didn't get a large amount of snow - maybe 6 inches - but a lot of it blew back onto the roads after they were plowed. Then everything froze. This is about as bitterly cold as I can remember, and for longer. What's worse is that sleet and ice are on their way Monday or Tuesday. We're trying to get my dad out of the hospital and on his way to Texas before this next sleet/ice event happens, but the dr. thinks it will be Tuesday or so. I keep trying to tell the hospital that it's more dangerous for him to drive in an ice storm than it is to leave a day early, but so far I haven't been able to convince them.

A retirement in Savannah or Charleston is looking nicer every day. Even if I have to pump my own gas.

Right now Southern California is looking good. The low on Friday's morning was -4 F with a high around 0 F (and the wind chill was around - 22 F so it felt really cold). Today's high was a reported 7 F but it's currently only 2 F (with -16 currently, wind chill) and the sun is going to be setting in an hour. Plus, we are still under a wind chill warning until like 7 PM today or something. Tonight's low is going to be a -6 F (air temp). Tomorrow is going to be a comfortably warm temp of 25 F and by then we should be done with these bitter cold temps- for a while.

[The Conservative]

Oh, whaaa! It's cold outside. Pumping gas in the cold is bad!

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[Penner]

Oh, whaaa! It's cold outside. Pumping gas in the cold is bad!

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When frostbite can happens in less than 30 minutes- it's bad outside and I am a Northern too- so is MilSpec. We are all dealing with weather we are not use to. No one except for some people along the Canadian boarder, Canada, and Alaska has to deal with this EVERY YEAR. This is really a bad winter for all in the Northeast. Hell, in some places certain infrastructures are failing due to the cold and a major ass nor'easter was hammering the coast.

[doc_loliday]

Right now Southern California is looking good.

Gonna be a high of 69 at DisneyLand today.

[The Conservative]

Oh, whaaa! It's cold outside. Pumping gas in the cold is bad!

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When frostbite can happens in less than 30 minutes- it's bad outside and I am a Northern too- so is MilSpec. We are all dealing with weather we are not use to. No one except for some people along the Canadian boarder, Canada, and Alaska has to deal with this EVERY YEAR. This is really a bad winter for all in the Northeast. Hell, in some places certain infrastructures are failing due to the cold and a major ass nor'easter was hammering the coast.

I live in Mass. I was dead center of that storm. This was bad? Seriously?

It's been on average with wind about -10 to -20 each day/night. We pump our gas; we walk to the store, we get ice coffee.

If all of you were used to this, this weather comes around about once a decade. There is nothing terrible about this storm.

If you look at the places in where the infrastructure is failing, I'd almost bet a Democrat ran it into the ground for at least the past decade minimum.