• TronBronson@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      My small rural town, which is clearly thee more smaller and ruraler than thou… still has a 1970s style pump with the big flip up handles and you have to stop it yourself and the numbers are on a physical wheel that rolls. Better think twice before claiming rural there city boi!!

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        4 hours ago

        We had a store like that, but it closed a couple of years ago. It was also the highest priced gas for the three closest stores.

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      6 hours ago

      Read that as “country” and was confused, because this is a very 'Murican thing. Not saying it doesn’t exist at all elsewhere, just that it seems to be extremely common in the US and not so anywhere else. There would be riots in a lot of countries if they even tried this.

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          We do black friday mob shopping instead, some of you will die without having punched an old lady trying to get her grandchild a gameboy, and it shows.

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      7 hours ago

      In my area it’s only the major chains. The privately owned ones don’t, but I think that’s just because their pumps are too old.