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Japanese Gas Station - Full Service!

posted by kronosposeidon

1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1694 views

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When I was just a tike there used to be these things called "full service" gas stations. In America those are a thing of the past now, but in Japan they apparently still have them. Hell, when you leave an attendant stops traffic so that you can safely enter the street!

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Fantastic. You gotta love Japan.

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I guess you haven't been to America lately. Oregon has only full service gas stations.

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^I guess you haven’t been to the rest of America lately, because while Oregon might only have full-service fuel stations, I can tell you from first-hand experience that the following states do not, as I have driven in every one of them:

Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Massachusetts
Delaware
Maryland
Washington, DC
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Kentucky
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Colorado
Wyoming
South Dakota
Montana
Utah
Idaho

In all those states, I only recall visiting ONE full-service station. It was on I-90 in New York state, in the summer of 1989. It was a station that was full-service only, and you had to pay the extra quarter per gallon for it too. Even then, they didn't clean your windows, empty your ashtray, or halt traffic so that you could safely re-enter the road. They just pumped the gas, and then they expected a tip too.

So while full-service may be the norm in the Oregon, it isn’t anywhere else I’ve been, nor is it the norm for most non-Oregonians.

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I ran across one by accident one day in Louisiana. I didn't know what to do when the guy came over to help. lol. It was an old station along a back road. The attendant was in his 60's and was likely the owner. I guess he's a bit of a traditionalist.