Meh. It's Bayonne.

Your point?

Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

I'm betting that's not the reason. If you're going to do a trial run on pay stations, why not use the one Asbury Park uses, where you don't have to go back to your car. AND you can go to any pay station to add time. They probably saw a decrease in fines and decided to go back to the old-fashioned meters before they lost too much revenue.

Why am I not shocked that it's Bayonne? Bayonne: where it's always 1976,

Lando Lincoln: Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

I pump my own when I'm on the bike, otherwise I *LIKE* not having to pump my own gas. Cold, snowy, raining, or too hot? Pffft...I stay nice & comfy in my car, thanks. So what if sometimes I have to wait a few seconds longer? I've got books in the car.

"We're really glad they're gone, we did not like them," BTC executive director Mary Divock said yesterday. "It might work in other towns, but . . . it just doesn't work here. We're a community of young families and seniors."

You can't walk a few feet if you have a "young family"? And if you're a senior who is driving somewhere by yourself, you're presumably going to have to walk to that place after you've parked.

Screw NJ.

You'll pump my gas for me AND charge me $.25 LESS per gallon?

NO THANK YOU!

Lando Lincoln: Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

The attendant shrugs his shoulders and watches you? He might say "that's not legal here" or something similar, but he won't really make a move to stop you.

Considering I got a ticket in Hoboken because apparently the receipt flew off my dashboard when I closed the door, I welcome this.

/Yes, I know it was my fault.

The Loaf: Lando Lincoln: Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

The attendant shrugs his shoulders and watches you? He might say "that's not legal here" or something similar, but he won't really make a move to stop you.

They will in Oregon.

Bathia_Mapes: The Loaf: Lando Lincoln: Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

The attendant shrugs his shoulders and watches you? He might say "that's not legal here" or something similar, but he won't really make a move to stop you.

They will in Oregon.

Remember, in NJ, we don't give a shiat.

Why not just give each parking space a letter and number designation that you enter when you pay? Link the system up to portable units carried by parking enforcement and they can easily check any space to see if it has time on it. No receipt necessary.

RexTalionis: Remember, in NJ, we don't give a shiat.

Constipation is a terrible thing.

DanZero: It's how we get tough and adapt to survive there

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/did my time

Rest of U.S.: YOU SMELL LIKE GAS. Your friends don't question it because they smell like gas too. When you visit, or we visit you, we are polite enough to not tell you. Here on Fark, there is no such social contract.

Oh, I'm sorry to embarrass you, I thought you would want to know...

Bathia_Mapes: The Loaf: Lando Lincoln: Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

The attendant shrugs his shoulders and watches you? He might say "that's not legal here" or something similar, but he won't really make a move to stop you.

They will in Oregon.

Oregon legalized it a few years ago. NJ's the only state that won't let you pump your own. And The Loaf is right--the attendants don't care, as long as you're not a dick about it.

brigid_fitch: Bathia_Mapes: The Loaf: Lando Lincoln: Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

The attendant shrugs his shoulders and watches you? He might say "that's not legal here" or something similar, but he won't really make a move to stop you.

They will in Oregon.

Oregon legalized it a few years ago. NJ's the only state that won't let you pump your own. And The Loaf is right--the attendants don't care, as long as you're not a dick about it.

At this point the only legal gas pumping options are if you're getting diesel fuel, or if you're gassing up a boat or motorcycle. You still can't legal gas up your own car.

People hate them because in the 2 minutes it takes to get out of your car, punch in your payment method at the centralized meter thing and return with your receipt, a dickbag meter maid has already ticketed you for not having a parking receipt on your dash.

Why yes, that has happened to me. No, I was not happy. No, he did not throw out the ticket and say "my bad, you are right". Took 8 weeks for the situation to resolve itself. My only saving grace is that my receipt said something like 2:36pm for the purchase time and his ticket spit out a time of 2:38pm. The person who I dealt with over the phone told me that this situation was incredibly common. And there was really not much they could do to increase the awareness of their meter maids to see what cars are coming and going.

Assholes, every last one of them...

brigid_fitch: Bathia_Mapes: The Loaf: Lando Lincoln: Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

The attendant shrugs his shoulders and watches you? He might say "that's not legal here" or something similar, but he won't really make a move to stop you.

They will in Oregon.

Oregon legalized it a few years ago. NJ's the only state that won't let you pump your own. And The Loaf is right--the attendants don't care, as long as you're not a dick about it.

Maybe they treat out-of-staters differently, but every time I go there for a business meeting I try to pump my own gas (because I forget) and the attendants get all bent out of shape on me.

brigid_fitch: They probably saw a decrease in fines and decided to go back to the old-fashioned meters before they lost too much revenue.

That's very cynical of you. And I bet it's accurate. I wonder if they'll put in any of the ones that read credit cards like I see in Tempe, AZ. Probably not though, since that cuts into revenue and people are more likely to feed the meter if they can.

brigid_fitch

Normally you are not allowed to park at metered spaces beyond the maximum time you can buy all at once. Meters rarely charge market rates. If all they did was charge 50 cents per hour they would be monopolized by long term parkers. They are a way to enforce time limits. If you park past two hours the meter maid writes you a big ticket. It could be one city decided to look past the law to meet popular demand, and another did not.

(There is a movement towards market pricing of parking. That's a story for another day.)

Endive Wombat

I read an article about Washington, D.C.'s computerized parking system. You pay and the computer updates meter maids' handheld parking enforcement devices. The updates sometimes arrive after the ticket has been written. They claim at least 99% accuracy, which isn't enough.

I'd rather pump my own gas than wait a got-dam half hour for someone to show up and do it for me!

/central Jersey
//doesn't smell bad unless the mulch pile next door catches fire

brigid_fitch: NJ's the only state that won't let you pump your own. And The Loaf is right--the attendants don't care, as long as you're not a dick about it.

I've been told before to pump my own gas, because the attendant was on the phone and couldn't be arsed to do it himself.

Sybarite: Why not just give each parking space a letter and number designation that you enter when you pay?

Street parking, no real "spots" needed when you have the ticketing machine. You would have to keep the spaces plowed well enough so you could read the numbers in snowy weather. Florida doesn't exactly have a "snowy weather" problem.

On the other hand, I've seen this style machine used in Phoenixville, PA, and some shore towns in NJ, so I guess they're not worried about the snow.

We have the muni meters, or pay stations or whatever they are called in my town. Its great, because I don't need to fish around looking for 4 quarters in my car when I park, or try and figure out which meter my car lines up with because some ass 5 cars up parked wrong, or if the meter is broken hope the meter maid notices and decides to show you mercy. Plus, like the story says, it frees up a few extra space, and is far cheaper for the city to collect (and in north jersey, eliminates the yearly story where a town realizes a million bucks in quarters from their meters has gone "missing")

The old fogies hate them, because aside from having to walk a bit, and having to press a few buttons, you don't get to take the time left on the meter from the last guy who was parked there.

DVDave: brigid_fitch: Lando Lincoln: Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

I pump my own when I'm on the bike, otherwise I *LIKE* not having to pump my own gas. Cold, snowy, raining, or too hot? Pffft...I stay nice & comfy in my car, thanks. So what if sometimes I have to wait a few seconds longer? I've got books in the car.

This indeed. I'm from Oregon, the other don't-pump-your-own-gas state. I don't mind having someone else do it for me. And no, when i was on the motorcycle, I didn't let the attendant stick the nozzle between my legs either.

i find the gas prices in my hometown in Oregon are pretty close to what I pay here in Phoenix. If Oregon gas was notably more expensive, then I would definitely opt to pump my own if laying off station attendants meant the price would go down.

But it won't.

CSB years me and a friend are following the dead around. After being on the road for over a month, you get really used to pumping your own gas. Sure, when you leave NJ for the first few times you find yourself sitting for 5 minutes at the pump wondering where the attendant is, while everyone inside laughs at the idiot from jersey, but you get used to it, and really don't mind. I prefer pumping my own actually, as it is faster than waiting for the guy who couldn't rise above gas pumper to come and pump it for you.

Anyway, we are on the road for a while, and the whole self serve thing leaves your mind.

So one day we pull into oregon, and i get out, and start pumping the gas, and this guy comes literally running and screaming out of the gas station at us to stop.

Him: "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!"
Me: "uhh, pumping my gas?"

So he looks at me, looks down at the front of my car and sees the jersey plate, and goes:

"You boys are from jersey. you should know better than to do something stupid like that, do you even know what you are doing?"

As if we somehow crossed the country without ever having to pump our gas once.

moops: brigid_fitch: Bathia_Mapes: The Loaf: Lando Lincoln: Go ahead and try to pump your own gas in New Jersey. See what happens to you.

The attendant shrugs his shoulders and watches you? He might say "that's not legal here" or something similar, but he won't really make a move to stop you.

They will in Oregon.

Oregon legalized it a few years ago. NJ's the only state that won't let you pump your own. And The Loaf is right--the attendants don't care, as long as you're not a dick about it.

Where the fark has it been legalized? I've never seen self-serve in Oregon, and I live here.

/doesn't own a car either, could be wrong

Whoops, thought I read a few years ago that you legalized it. Just re-checked and I am incorrect.

fusillade762:
A better question: why would you want to?


because its quicker than waiting for the guy who is trying to pump gas in 6 cars that pulled in at the same time to do it.

Every few years a politician forgets where he is, and suggests they get rid of the law, and god help you, you have never seen old people mobilize like they do when the news gets wind that someone is thinking of changing the law.

Some senator suggested that we look into seeing if it would save some money if we gave the option, while still requiring all places to have an attendant for no extra charge, and people literally marched on the state house. The guy had to go on TV and give a tearful apology for suggesting something, in his own words, "so stupid"