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   Howard to Snidely   
   Re: A rant directed at grocery store fue   
   30 Jan 21 20:49:47   
   
   From: howdHol@yaooho.com   
      
   Snidely  wrote   
      
   > Not quite a response to this, but CostCo gas pumps often have lines of   
   > 10 or so cars per lane.  Price can motivate tolerance of   
   > inconvenience.   
      
      
   For my close ones it's not just the wait but the scrimmage for the pumps   
   that can happen when people are approaching them from different sides, the   
   dance where you have to pull around cars to get to a pump and you're not   
   sure if someone else is going to pull out, the jams where people try to   
   pull out of the part of the driveway where cars want to enter and nobody   
   will yield....   
      
   I will happily risk paying an extra buck and drive a few minutes farther to   
   get to the station with better design if the closer stations get crowded.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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