• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

Why do I have to take a damn test to get gas these days?

Yep there is another one
Yeah, it's been bad for many years. I remember this one station in the 90s would ask if you wanted a hot dog/coke combo.

Best Buy for a while required their cashiers to get your zip, phone number and then ask if you want some magazine subscriptions (pretty random)....and you had to choose from this catalog with 6 people waiting in line behind you. I would simply ask "can I just pay for this?"
 
Yeah, it's been bad for many years. I remember this one station in the 90s would ask if you wanted a hot dog/coke combo.

Best Buy for a while required their cashiers to get your zip, phone number and then ask if you want some magazine subscriptions (pretty random)....and you had to choose from this catalog with 6 people waiting in line behind you. I would simply ask "can I just pay for this?"

It's like a cheap buck off surveys and then you get the riff raff. At FSU there was governors square mall and they seemed to get kinda ghetto around fame homecoming but was by and large okay.

Then a couple years ago we went back to check it out and they had a survey biz surrounded in bullet proof glass. They'd pay like 50 bucks for a couple hundred surveys lol.
 
Do you have a shell credit card?
Are you a member of shell rewards?
Do you want fuel cleaner put in?
Debit or credit?
Enter your zip code?
Would you like a receipt?
Which gas you want?
Yeah, screw that shit - they are trying to data mine every frigging thing on the planet. I just push my card in and enter my pin and it over-rides all that shit.
 
Yeah, screw that shit - they are trying to data mine every frigging thing on the planet. I just push my card in and enter my pin and it over-rides all that shit.
I think thats what happens for me also, because i don't have to answer all those questions like @croot_lord. Not sure if its just that i don't usually go to Shell or maybe another reason. But usually I just start by putting in my card and then zip code and thats it.
 
Yeah, it's been bad for many years. I remember this one station in the 90s would ask if you wanted a hot dog/coke combo.

Best Buy for a while required their cashiers to get your zip, phone number and then ask if you want some magazine subscriptions (pretty random)....and you had to choose from this catalog with 6 people waiting in line behind you. I would simply ask "can I just pay for this?"
I always tell them mr. X
ZIP 99999
PHONE 843 9999999
Lowes home depot or anywhere else
 

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