Thoughts, stickers and a man dressed in blue

On my way into work today I was thinking, what can I look for today to show all of you that will be at least a little bit interesting. Then I remembered, I have the best job in the world and anything I show them they will be appreciate and jealous of!! Yeah, right! LOL

I set out to locate all the different types of stickers I see on cars all day. I will say that all the NOTW stickers out number all the others by 10 to 1. Oddly, the folks in the cars with these stickers are usually the ones I have most of my gas station issues with, how strange is that? So I only took pictures of a few of those. I did this of course in between all my small battles of witt and lameness with the everyday gas purchaser. Now I do have a large pool of great customers too. When they come in we usually spend our small amount of time together looking at all the customers that have all the issues, the ones that make us scratch our heads and laugh.

The above pictures show these kinds of people, a way to proud parent, the town that has one of my favorite singletracks, a person who no matter what stands by the side of a killer, two narrow minded and guided lost souls, a guy who is proud of his daughter, a bug lover and one that sees people as equals. Mix and match as you please.

This sharp looking dude is Rague. He keeps the peace in the parking lot and works like 23 days in a row. Don't let his soft blues fool you, if you get out of line he will give you a death punch and send you to meet your maker!





Now this bugs the crap out of me! How do some of these peoples homes look. When I see people snatch a receipt that was left hanging in the dispenser and place it on the top I loose it. Sometimes they even drop it straight on the floor. I do love calling them out throw. I run over quickly and rapidly say, oh let me assist you! I grab the trash and slam dunk it in the trash can that is less than 4' away. I then look at them and with a rather scary smile on my face and I say, whole cow , it really does fit in the trash can. And to think you must have thought it was to big! Sometimes it freaks them out and other times they get mad. In the end I had a moment of fun calling them out and I also kept that receipt from ending up in the bushes or the storm drain!

One thing about my job I can't figure out is peoples allegiance to my station. They will sit in line sometimes for 20 min's with their engines on, in the heat so they can save a dollar on a tank of gas. Sure in some cases it's worth it when we are .10 cents less per gallon and you have an RV. But even then, if you can afford the upkeep and payment of an RV you have cash to burn anyway.

All of these people saved money today, but got a sunburn on their left arms waiting in line for cheap gas!!!

My favorite RV logo!

Remember yesterday when I was talking about the broken dispensers. They had been broken for 4 days and we were waiting for parts. When the tech got there, he had the wrong parts. Cool thing was he went back and got the right parts. Uncool thing, after he installed them and left, they broke again. This is one of our trusty Techs. He was hunting down the right part. Strange how he found the right parts in about 10 min's when it only took 4 days to locate the wrong parts.