March misfits

**Ken L** · 03-08-2022, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by getsome

Those little TV screens on the gas pumps should start showing porn movies so at least you could watch someone else getting screwed at the same time you are……

Careful what you wish for. They'll probably show you a picture of Kamala Harris laughing as you fill your tank!

**getsome** · 03-08-2022, 08:48 PM

In late 1979 Jimmy Carter was still in office after a failed term and disaster in Iran and with the country facing massive inflation, gasoline shortages and unemployment my father who owned a successful gas station decided to hang it up because the price of gasoline went over $1.00 a gallon and his six Tokheim mechanical pumps out front would only go up to 99 9/10 cents and he would either have to sell gas at a loss or replace all six pumps with newer models that would be able to adjust to over $1.00 a gallon which would have cost him a small fortune so along with the economy in the tank and everyone wondering how they could make it any longer he sold the station and I remember very well how much it hurt him and he told me to never go into the business because we can’t trust the government and once gasoline prices go up much more the country will be in serious trouble……..Sounds familiar doesn’t it………….

**mr surveyor** · 03-08-2022, 09:11 PM

^LIKE^

jd

**kenemoore** · 03-09-2022, 04:22 AM

**kenemoore** · 03-09-2022, 04:26 AM

Originally Posted by getsome

In late 1979 Jimmy Carter was still in office after a failed term and disaster in Iran and with the country facing massive inflation, gasoline shortages and unemployment my father who owned a successful gas station decided to hang it up because the price of gasoline went over $1.00 a gallon and his six Tokheim mechanical pumps out front would only go up to 99 9/10 cents and he would either have to sell gas at a loss or replace all six pumps with newer models that would be able to adjust to over $1.00 a gallon which would have cost him a small fortune so along with the economy in the tank and everyone wondering how they could make it any longer he sold the station and I remember very well how much it hurt him and he told me to never go into the business because we can’t trust the government and once gasoline prices go up much more the country will be in serious trouble……..Sounds familiar doesn’t it………….

The local station where I grew up, had the same problem with the pumps. Their solution was to set the pump for 1/2 the price and then charge double what the pump read. So $1.10 gas had a pump set for .55, they explained of the customers why the reading was off. Worked for several years, they slowly upgraded from mechanical to digital meters on the pumps.