Petrol stations stuck in the 70's!

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Originally Posted by stallie

Took a bit of explaining to me at a tiny town 300 miles north of Vegas as to how that worked when I wanted a full tank...

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You hand the cashier more money than the fuel will cost and go back in for your change. My rent-a-Camry takes about $45 for 3/4 tank so I give the attendant $60 to start.

The big gas station near my Omaha hotel has an entire wall of refrigerated beer and wines. Booze is cheap here. Try $7.99 for a six pack of Danish Carlsberg not the anaemic replica made in Oz by Foster's, $14.99 for a twelve pack of Heineken, $4.70 for a six pack of 16oz. cans of Old Milwaukee 5%. Bar in Cheyenne sold near schooner sized glasses of draught for $2.75.

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Worse than all the groceries at servos these days, try to find a fan belt, or radiator hose, even a generic corrugated one in a servo. :mad:

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This annoys me more than anything. I needed a standard 15A fuse at my local BP 'supermarket' and needed to wait 15 minutes while the guy called his manager (at 1am, I'm sure he was impressed). The bugger behind the counter didn't even know what a fuse was! Turns out they were right next to him in clear view the whole time.

I found a piece of the past the other day in Cessnock. Driveway service, Kero drum with a tap near the bowsers, spares for sale inside and the attached mechanical workshop still operating. The decor, the homemade pickles for sale on the counter, the whole bit, it was fair dinkum like stepping back into the 70's. I drove out of there with a smile.

Cheers,
Anthony.

The Coles/Woolies thing is a threat to real sevice at servos. And they're no cheaper than the other servos. The cheapest servo I've found is a Mobil with no fuel dockets at all, just the best price.

Anoher pet hate is those self-service terminals in some supermarkets. I hate them and refuse to use them. One Coles I know replaced half its checkouts with self-service terminals, but few people use them, so they just queue for longer to deal with a real person, while a staff member begs them to use the machines, and they ignore them. They've lost my business - I don't go in there any more.

Yeah, isn't modern life fun?

We were at Perth airport a few months ago to fly Qantas and wandered in as usual, looking for which queue to join, and found nothing but self-serve electronic DIY check-in things. By the time we were done figuring it out, I was in bad mood before we'd even gotten near the plane.

And they still had staff on the floor anyway, helping people who couldn't work out these things!

I see the federal police are complaining that self-check-in makes it easy for criminals to fly under false identities.