Stupidity

[Oh Haha]

I pull into the gas station to fill up on the way home. Simple enough, right?


Next thing I know a POS Lincoln Town Car pulls into the pump opposite where I am. 2 or 3 rather large women/girls get out and go right into the store. Out of the corner of my eye I see another woman get out and start to light up a cigarette.

Normally, I mind my own business but tonight wasn't one of those times.

"You know you are at a gas station, right? I asked the beast. "Yeah, I was going to step away from the pump in just a minute".


WTH is wrong with people?

Rant over.

[szyzygy]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

I pull into the gas station to fill up on the way home. Simple enough, right?


Next thing I know a POS Lincoln Town Car pulls into the pump opposite where I am. 2 or 3 rather large women/girls get out and go right into the store. Out of the corner of my eye I see another woman get out and start to light up a cigarette.

Normally, I mind my own business but tonight wasn't one of those times.

"You know you are at a gas station, right? I asked the beast. "Yeah, I was going to step away from the pump in just a minute".


WTH is wrong with people?

Rant over.

Is it really a danger?

I could understand how it COULD be what with all the fire and gasoline and all. OR it could be lame like the urban legends about cell phones at the pumps

[Gogar]

Originally Posted by szyzygy

OR it could be lame like the urban legends about cell phones at the pumps

So for you:

FIRE and GASOLINE

may or may not be as dangerous as urban legends about

Cell phone static electricity and gasoline.

Maybe you were kidding.

[szyzygy]

Originally Posted by Gogar

So for you:

FIRE and GASOLINE

may or may not be as dangerous as urban legends about

Cell phone static electricity and gasoline.

Maybe you were kidding.

No, it's not the same thank you very much

[szyzygy]

Originally Posted by Gogar

So for you:

FIRE and GASOLINE

may or may not be as dangerous as urban legends about

Cell phone static electricity and gasoline.

Maybe you were kidding.

one involved flame you can see and appreciate
the other, invisible radio waves.

[szyzygy]

If you can't see something it's easier to convince you it's a threat.

[targa911S]

shouldn't be a problem,,,,,,

[Oh Haha]

To the beast's credit, she DID go to the front of the store to smoke. I wasn't sticking around the find out if it's just an urban legend.

I figure I would hear the fire whistle and hear the explosion if'n it did blow up.

[Gogar]

Oh, sorry Szyzygy I thought you were serious. That'll show me!

[Baz]

Humans are not only stupid but that are lazy sods.....don't get me started about shopping cart etiquette.....

[widgeon13]

Last August we celebrated my mother's 100th birthday at the nursing home. We put candles on her cake and she blew them out. Never thought for a minute that I may have incinerated her as she was on O2 through a nasal cannula.

We didn't put candles on the cake last week for her 101st.

[Hard-Deck]

...or ****ty parking

[red-beard]

I was getting a bunch of propane tanks filled last month. A girl gets out of a car and starts to light up near the filling station.

Phone and gas pumps: Nothing to do with static electricity. There is enough electrical energy in cell phone circuitry to set off gasoline vapors. If you drop a phone and break it, it could create a spark. My old Palm Lifedrive was actually rated for use in a Class I, Div II area (potential area for hazardous gasses).

[daleflesburg]

For ignition to occur you need three things:

Fuel
Oxygen
Spark

The fuel and oxygen need to be in mixture and appropriate ratio, and you need a spark. I have seen demonstrations of a lit cigarette tossed into a bucket of gasoline, and the cigarette goes out as tho the gas were water. The cooler the air and the colder the gasoline and it will take longer to vaporize sufficient fuel oxygen ratio to become volatile. Put an open bucket of gasoline in the warm sunshine, and strike a match near the bucket, or toss a lit match over the bucket and watch in amazement as the fuel explodes. Gas at a pump in a gas station is dangerous, and with risk, but not a bomb ready to blow without more help than somone smoking a cigarette in the vicinity.

[stomachmonkey]

[Erakad]

Brings back memories. After high school I worked at a gas station. The owner, nice guy but I would catch him filling gas tanks then checking to see if they were full by using the light from his cigarette! I would yell at him, but he never quit.

I found another job...he never blew up the gas station.

[Hard-Deck]

Throw a cigarette into a pail of gas. It extinguishes. I have not tried it with modern corn liquid called gas.

[MDH]

Why tempt fate................................ or Darwin.................or fuel air ratios

maybe I'm just getting old

[john70t]

Static electricity is very real.

One car used to audibly and visually zap/pop when I'd close the the door on dry days.
It has to do with seat fabric material, and people getting back into their car while refueling.
That's a no-no.

It happens in rare occasions and only under the right circumstances.
Personally, I'd prefer not being burnt alive if at all avoidable.

[sc_rufctr]

100% STUPID...

Some people are just a walking accident.

FWIW... I have a large steel cabinet that I store all of my POL in (petrol & oily liquids). It's outside in the back corner of my yard.
There is a fire extinguisher under cover on a bracket 10 meters away from it.

Am I paranoid? You bet I am.