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You'll never see a gas nozzle hanging out of someone's gas tank unless they stole+ran...

Because we have full serve gas, unlike some other (*cough*FORTYEIGHT*cough*) heathen states!

LOL - I was referring to Darsa getting sick ;)
Although it is a bit difficult to believe anyone still has full serve, especially when the price of your gas is so low by comparison to California

Oregon is full service only.

There are both in the part of Mo I live in.

I hate driving through Oregon, having to wait on the gas attendant. One trip, jesus years and years ago, one asshole made us wait, even after he pointed out that we had gotten there first and finished before the other people he was totaling out. You know you're not even allowed to run your credit card. All we needed was the pump taken out and our friggin receipt and asshole just ignored us. Finally Mike got out and just did it himself and THEN dude comes over, having a cow, telling us we're breaking the law. (it literally is a law - suppose to provide jobs, i guess). So Mike asked if he graduated top of his gas pumping class.

=x

LOL - too funny ROz.
I forgot about Oregon. When I lived in Crescent City I used to drive to Brookings just so I could get gas (its always been cheaper there, possibly due to the lack of sales tax), and back then I thought it was neat having someone else put the gas in. I've been pumping it myself for so long now I don't know what I would do with myself just sitting and watching.

Lol, we don't have full service at all in the UK (or at least I never found one). So one day my usual spot at the pumps was taken so I went in the other lane, wondered whnat the full service sign meant but just shrugged it off. I get out, go pay for the gas (we have pre-paid :( ), come back out and this dude is filling up my car. I just looked at him incredulously, thinking what the fuck?! And that he better not scratch that truck or Guy will kill me. Then I read the full service sign again and the penny dropped.

Talking of prepaid though, lol that was funny. The first time I had to fill up, it was like 11 at night, freezing cold and I'm standing there trying to make the pump work and shooting the attendant dirty glares to switch the goddamned thing on. That not working, I went over and asked him if the pumps were working. He said yes, so without waiting for him to say more I go back and try again. He musta been baffled too by this point cos suddenly the intercom buzzes on and he says, "Erm...you have to pay for that first mam."
You gotta be kidding me right? I looks at him then back at this truck which I've only driven for 2 days and isn't even mine, and think how the fuck am I supposed to know how much it takes? So I go ever and give him $100. The truck only took $92 or something. I'm then pissed that that dude has $8 out of me for nothing and drive off. No one told me I could have the change until 2 or 3 fill ups later. It was quite embaressing lol.

oh man LOL

Just got home from the best night I've had all year. I'll find out in a few hours if the next one will be just as good. Few things are as awesome as spending time witih people you haven't seen in waaaaaay too long. Missing people sucks.

I'm going earth shooting tomorrow. It sounds easy enough. I hear there's a 100% success rate of hitting it even if everything goes wrong, so it shouldn't be that hard, right? Take aim from thousands of feet away and fling myself out of an airplane in its general direction. Easy peasy?

On a related note, if you don't hear from me anymore, that most likely means I totally fucked up that earth I was aiming at. It won't be in any shape for a second hit.

OOOh! Are you going tandem, or solo? Where are you jumping? Once you get over the initial abject fear, and actually get out of the plane, it's the most awesome experience ever!!

Oooh I wanna go skydiving!

Well, I got a stay on my death sentence. The dive instructor who handles the tandem setups is sick so we have to reschedule. This means we have to go on Friday or Saturday now, but most likely Saturday.

We're going to someplace just northeast of Austin. My friend is getting the video/photo package since it's for her birthday. I'm just going for the experience and so she isn't by herself.

Not only do I hate heights, but I hate fast drops. Yes, one of the reasons I do junk like this is to face my fear. The other is because the very act of facing my fear seems to impress the girls. I know, cheesy reasons. I've never denied being a dork.

Ohhh...I'm sorry you're not getting to go it alone, but I have to think the main experience will still be the same. The falling is scary, but once the shoot opens, and you just float to earth, its awesome.

When I went two instructors got out of the plane with me, and held on to me until I pulled the cord (from 10,500ft to 4,500ft), then they let go and I landed all on my own. Absolutely fabulous experience.

From what I can tell, the DZs in this area absolutely will not allow non-tandem or static line jumps for people who aren't going through their classes. Since it's a one-time thing and neither of us is certified, we only have the one option.

Yea, what I did was level 1 of an accelerated free fall class. I spent all day learning how to fall/land, jump, what position I needed to be in once I did jump, how to read the equipment, and what to do with the readings, what to do if my initial chute didn't open, etc., etc. At the end of the day I went up, with two instructors. When it was time to jump each one took hold of one side of me, and watched as I went through the routine of checking the horizon, altimeter, and then deferring to each one of them, until I reached 4500 feet. Then like I said, I pulled the cord, their job was done, so they took off, and via a radio in my helmet I was directed on landing. When my feet touched the ground, within the target, it was like stepping off a curb...effortless. That was all done at this place called Parachutes over San Diego, and I guess maybe I was lucky in being able to get in on that type of course, because once I moved home I looked for other parachuting places that had that same program, and none did. ALL of they required a person go tandem the first time, even though I had a certificate stating I had passed level one of AFF. But like you, since I wasn't going to get certified, I saw no reason to go up again and go tandem :P

Yep, they offer AFF classes, but my friend only has a few hours here and there to do things because she works full time, volunteers, and has her child involved in as many extracurricular things as possible (which she is involved in also). So we pretty much were supposed to be there at 10 this morning and be done before lunch. We'll find out today if we're going tomorrow morning or Saturday afternoon.

Got a huge head rush. Still feeling dizzy 2 hours after landing. Didn't really start the panicked thought process until we left the ground. My friend wasn't nervous at all, but she doesn't have a problem with heights or drops (I can't handle roller coasters).

So glad I was right about the acceleration not being as bad as a roller coaster.

Good to hear from you again, after! lol

most of my ribs and my collarbone have been popping since last night. i guess i really didn't think about the deceleration from 110-120mph to whatever our controlled descent was. think most of my central joints shifted a bit, so they're just resetting. even my butt popped (POPPED, not pooped) when i landed in bed.

still scared of heights, but i'd go again.