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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

A Month of Boring Things - Day One: Pumping Gas

Wake me when it's over!

Rating: 33.33% Repeating, of course

25 comments:

Chris said...: Nice artwork VA!; June 17, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Viking Andrew said...: Thanks, man. I haven't used Paint in about eight years. I put a lot of effort into it.; June 17, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Viking Andrew said...: Tell your favorite gas-pumping stories here. I've got one about a pink shirt...; June 17, 2009 at 5:47 PM
J. said...: I worked pumping gas at a gas station 10 years ago. Taxi drivers and bikers would exchange packages in the bathroom. The employees would play scratch tickets, and the game was to win enough to pay for all the tickets we'd already scratched. By the end of it I had figured out how to fool the computer so that I could ring items in but not log the purchases and then steal enough for a pack of cigarettes every shift. I also fucked my then-girlfriend on my boss' desk. I'm sorry now that I was such a shitty employee, but everyone else there was doing it, and at the time my moral code was much more callow and self-serving than it is today.; June 17, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...: holy fuck, that was a p. good story i was just gonna tell yall this time me and my friend huffed gas behind a bp on us 19 and a hobo came by when we pased out and stole our pants; June 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...: i called a attorney about sueing the gas station but he said we were deliquents and we shld be locked up (dont worry we keyd his car); June 17, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...: the previous story was inspired in part by that tits ass music vid glen posted a few days ago; June 17, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Viking Andrew said...: Once, while I was filling up at a gas station in College Station, this haggard-looking couple came up and told me how they were in town for the carnival and needed a few bucks for something to eat. I gave them five bucks. The lady said, "Thank you so much. We're carnival folk, so you know we're good for it."

Which will forever be the single funniest utterance I have ever heard somebody say in complete earnest.; June 17, 2009 at 7:33 PM
J. said...: I sold a bottle of mouthwash to an indian with a van full of kids.; June 17, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...: were they his?; June 17, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...: or did he steal them into white slavery; June 17, 2009 at 9:24 PM
J. said...: Dunno. Didn't ask.; June 17, 2009 at 10:34 PM
laurie said...: After thinking about it all day I've determined that I do not have any interesting gas pumping stories. This could be a result of never having owned a car.; June 17, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Viking Andrew said...: Not even in Florida?; June 17, 2009 at 10:42 PM
laurie said...: Nope. I had a motorcycle for three years, but never a car. But the bike got 50/mi to the gallon and nothing interesting ever happened when I was filling it up.; June 17, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...: i see a lot of catcalling during gas station fill ups j. wld you say a gas station is a good place to get a piece; June 17, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...: (is j internet jon btw?); June 17, 2009 at 10:52 PM
j. said...: Who?; June 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...: just some jerk; June 17, 2009 at 11:04 PM
laurie said...: Good question....; June 17, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...: lets see, j said he/she worked at a gas station 10 yrs ago and i. jon is 52 so that makes sense; June 17, 2009 at 11:20 PM
John said...: "I also fucked my then-girlfriend on my boss' desk."

Can't be me. I'm a virgin.; June 18, 2009 at 8:12 AM
LoCo said...: The most interesting thing about me pumping gas is that I can do it at all...also I can't ever get the clip-thing to work so that I don't have to hold the trigger down/hold the pump at an absurdly specific angle.

I really miss not having to drive. Even though today is totally a plastic rain bonnet day, I'm happy to bus it.; June 18, 2009 at 11:46 AM
laurie said...: @loco: Well that's just adorable.; June 19, 2009 at 9:17 AM
shoppista said...: I miss full-serve stations. I was always willing to pay extra to have someone else do the gas and also, back in the day, clean off my windshield for me.

Hi! I'm old.; June 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM