FUCK! WHAT IN THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE???

[LeftyFingerPop]

Between the time of my last post and now, I ran downstairs and drove to the gas station which is a block away.

I lit a smoke as soon as I got into the truck.

When I pulled up to the pumps, I stepped out of the truck, threw my cigarette to the ground, and butted it out with my foot before I stated pumping the gas.

This fucking asshole 2 ROWS OVER starts screaming at the top of his lungs...HEY YOU FUCKING IDIOT, WHY YA SMOKING NEAR A GAS PUMP? YA STUPID?

I told him to fuck off...that I was not near anyone who was pumping gas, and that I put the cig out with my foot.

Then, get this....he says...WHEN I'M DONE PUMPING, I'M GONNA KICK YOUR FUCKING ASS!!!!!

I got the hell out of there, and I'm still shaking.

Fucking paranoid fucks.

[KamaAina]

1. Were you on your way to Olive Garden with your pit bull?

:shrug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. ? no, I wanted to put gas in the truck.

[KamaAina]

4. But you were smoking

though probably not breastfeeding.

That about covers all the perennial flamewars, except for cornflake chicken, Laura Branigan...

[LeftyFingerPop]

5. I always smoke while pumping gas...

I have one lit about 75% of the time.

[MrCoffee]

3. Your response should have been

I'll be waiting with my tire iron.


Or even better, just open the trunk, take out the tire iron, and stare the fucker down.

[RoyGBiv]

29. After lighting another cigarette ...

:evilgrin:

[SCantiGOP]

41. not good advice

Like rock/paper/scissors, a handgun beats a tire iron every time. If the guy was crazy enough to be screaming at someone he would be a good candidate to have a gun in car.

[underseasurveyor]

6. Why you throwing butts on the ground?

Would be my question.

Hell when I use to smoke I smoked while pumping my gas but please don't throw your butts on the ground and if you do pick it up when it's out and throw it in the trash please.. do it for the environment and the animals and your grandkids :-)

[LeftyFingerPop]

7. They are bio-degradable. n/t

[underseasurveyor]

8. Filterless?

Or some new brand I'm not aware of?

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. Marlboro Lights...with the filter. n/t

[underseasurveyor]

14. Not so

And I'm not one of those anti-smoking n***'s either. Hell I smoked for 30+ years before I was able to quit. Anyway...... As someone that now works in the field of environmental restoration and with marine environments and eco-systems I can tell you that filters are not as bio-degradable as you might think and even if they were bio-degradable the toxins in that butt still leach out and harm the animals and their habitats.

So I am just going to ask that you at least consider that instead of leaving that butt lie on the ground pick it up and toss it in the trash. I use to use the small pocket on my jeans to put used butts in and then threw them away when next I saw a trash can. The dolphns, sea-lions and the pelicans will thank you and I will too.

Thanks:hi:

Oh and FUCK that loud mouthed assclown at the gas station!

"" also present a threat to wildlife. Cigarette filters have been found in the stomachs of fish, birds, whales and other marine creatures who mistake them for food ... Composed of cellulose acetate, a form of plastic, cigarette butts can persist in the environment as long as other forms of plastic."
http://www.cigarettelitter.org/index.asp?PageName=Facts

[LeftyFingerPop]

27. Ok. Makes sense. thank you for your response. n/t

[Book Lover]

40. FWIW - an ex used to use an empty Altoids tin for his butts (nm)

[Captain Hilts]

16. That filter will be around a nice, long time. nt

[LeftyFingerPop]

23. They are made of cotton and paper, both natural items. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

34. That will be around a nice, long time. nt

[Hissyspit]

10. I imagine some people don't want to be blown up at a gas station.

I think that was the problem.

[LeftyFingerPop]

11. He overreacted. Those pumps have tons of safety features on them.

You could stick a match in the pump nozzle and nothing would happen.

[HipChick]

12. more danger from sparks from a cellphone..LeftyFingerPop

you should have offered to knee him in the nuts..

[LeftyFingerPop]

18. Exactly.

[meeshrox]

47. Um...no...the Mythbusters busted that!

I'm sure it's on YouTube somewhere... :)

Either way, I don't think smoking at a gas station is a good idea!

[gratuitous]

19. I'm funny like that

Having had an "empty" gas can blow up in my face when I was but a tad, so firsthand experience with the union of fumes and fire makes me kind of jumpy. Probably shouldn't have offered any ass-kicking, but when someone's doing something stupid that could punch my ticket, well . . .

[LeftyFingerPop]

22. Why did the can blow up?

[Captain Hilts]

13. You should put the cig out IN the car. NOT step out where there are likely to be fumes.nt

[LeftyFingerPop]

17. Then my truck gets filled with ashes and they get on my clothes.

[bluesbassman]

15. I hear ya...

Last week some asshole yelled at me 'cause I was starting my barbeque on the tailgate of my truck while pumping gas. I needed to get a jump on it as I was running late. The coals were a good five or six feet from the nozzle so I just don't see what the big deal was. Fortunately Ole Bess was in the gun rack and Toothless Bob the pitbull was in the back of the truck, so the asshole at the next pump just yelled a lot. Some people got no business out in public I tell ya.
:)

[LeftyFingerPop]

20. Finally, some common sense.

[TK421]

21. what a douche....smoking at a gas station is no big deal!

[LeftyFingerPop]

24. People yell at me for no good reason.

I'm getting sick of it.

[Dr Morbius]

25. How much time do you have?

Talk about an open-ended question!

However, I would not recommend extinguishing cigarettes by gas pumps! Sounds like a spectacularly bad idea to me! I'd say just make it a general rule to extinguish your cigarette before exiting the car, because it only has to go horribly wrong once.

You could do it and not have a problem 999 times, but the one time there is a problem is the day you quit smoking. Quit breathing, too.

I am a smoker myself (Kools) and I try to make it a habit not to light up when I am traveling to the gas station. I make myself wait until I leave the station and (usually) head off to work. Makes me smoke less, always a good thing.

[LeftyFingerPop]

26. I have to smoke...I am a hopeless addict.

What people should REALLY worry about at gas stations is static electricity from their shoes.

[Dr Morbius]

30. Honestly...

... most likely, you'll be fine with modern gas pumps almost all the time, but when it is particularly hot, gas fumes are present no matter what safety features have been provided. It's inevitable. So at least when it's hot, do be careful, okay?

Try picking up a new habit. Like on the way to the gas station, you'll sing along with the radio cranked up. Make it a ritual. Then one ritual can substitute for another, you see?

I too am a hopeless addict, thirty years plus now and counting. So I can relate.

[Deep13]

37. You FEEL like you have to smoke. That's different. nt

[meeshrox]

48. Perhaps we should discuss what neighborhood you live in...

you don't live in Florida, do you? Just trying to narrow it down a little...

[Auggie]

49. I was a hopeless addict yet I still quit

Going on 8 years. Aside from rediscovering my taste buds I've saved over ten thousand dollars!

Do it before it screws up your lungs for good, like it did to mine.

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Reminds of that bitch day care supervisor who ragged me out when I came to work with TB.

Fucking hell, the kids are too young to know how to get sick, and even if they do - how many are gonna catch it? 2 or 3?

Fucking hell, there were 35 of 'em.

I'm an engineer - anything less than 10% we don't worry about.

Some people just get too worked up about shit.

[Captain Hilts]

35. Good one!

[S n o w b a l l]

31. People are just intolerant assholes.

Today I was driving down the road. I had just ordered one of those McDonalds Iced Mochas with chocolate syrup and whipped cream. The thing was so sweet I couldn't even drink it. So I just threw it out the window while I was driving. I didn't throw the cup so I wasn't littering. The guy behind me pulled up beside me and started yelling at me!

I just yelled back...that's what your windshield wipers are for asshole!!

:eyes:

[Dr Morbius]

32. My wipers don't work. (no further text)

[S n o w b a l l]

33. Oh...sorry

I hadn't thought of that. :(

[Deep13]

36. A bit of an overreaction.

As you say, you were not pumping yet, ergo, no accumulation of explosive vapors. Still, one cannot be too careful with that kind of thing.

I will note, however, that the ground is not an ashtray. Biodegradeable or not, they are not supposed to biodegrade there. It's litter, regardless.

[Deep13]

38. Wait! Is this you?

http://www.iviewtube.com/videos/130633/gas-station-pump-extinguisher-fail

[jobycom]

39. Meh. I've done that to smokers at pumps before. And litterers

Usually much calmer. I just lecture about the ignition temperature and combustibility of gasoline. A crushed butt, which is litter and should not be thrown on the ground in the first place, can still spark a fire from gas fumes alone. The moment between you opening the door and tossing the lighted butt on the ground could have been enough in the right circumstances.

It's a stupid-ass thing to do. Kind of like voting Republican, only without quite the high number of ensuing deaths and economic crash.

[Swede]

42. _

:smoke: :grr: :nuke: :scared: :O8): :cry: :hide: :patriot:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

43. What an incosiderate asshole!

You should have run over and put your cig out on his forehead. That would have cured his hysteria about being blown up and re-focused his attention on more immediate matters, like getting his loud ass mouth to the E.R. Some fucking people huh?

[LeftyFingerPop]

44. I'm telling you...

I am still upset over this.

I should have put his fucking head in a vise.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

45. I'm upset just hearing about it!

I can only imagine the pain and suffering you've been through since this incident. Did you get his license plate number? I know people and shit.

[astral]

46. Ah, the rest of the story!

I still am certain the risk is there for real. Ever have someone use a little gas on a campfire to get it going b/c they didn't have anything safer (or any sense?) It's extremely volatile stuff.

[Dystopian]

50. : )

I had to do something:o

:beer:

:loveya:

peace~

[Cleobulus]

51. Meh, people are stupid around cigs, the thing is the coal at the end of a cigarette is not likely...

to ignite gasoline without a little, ahem, help. Hell, you can put out a cigarette in a puddle of gasoline without it turning into a fireball. People watch too many movies, there is a small danger, but its about as likely to ignite gasoline as static buildup on your body will. It happens, but its rare.

The only exception to this is if you are filling a certified gas container, the reason is because the fumes are volatile and the containers aren't good at keeping them in, a lit cig may ignite the container, which would suck for all involved.

[Ptah]

52. Now you've done it. This is why we can't have nice things