From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:49:47 +0000 (UTC), Howard    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Once again, variability.   
      
   My Costco has one-way lines for the pumps and two pumps per lane with   
   lots of attendants..   
      
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