Rush Limbaugh's Self-Serve Gas Station Ordeal

[Marr]

This morning I happened to hear part of Rush Limbaugh's show on my drive to work. I hadn't heard this guy's show in years, but man- he's even more out of touch than he used to be.

He went on for about 10 minutes about how he had to pump his own gas at a gas station last week. I'm not sure what his original point was, since he started out talking about gas prices- but he slowly meandered into this really sickening whine about having to pump his own gas, and what an ordeal it was. It just got more and more disgusting.

First he complained that he'd pulled up to the pump, and noticed the island that used to be Full Service was now marked Self Serve. So he had to get out of his car (much harumphing here, with comments like "what do I do NOW?"). Then he was exasperated because when he told the woman working the register that he needed gas on pump 5, she asked him "how much?". Limbaugh thought she was an idiot. "How am I supposed to know how much? She's the one with the register".

So then he casually mentions that he just "gave her a $100" and went out to the pump.

He went on and on in this direction. Like he was the only bastard on the planet who ever had to pump his own gas. Like he was some kind of tough guy for having roughed it with the peasants for 10 minutes. He really seemed like he thought he'd gone through something difficult- it was just sickening. I think this moron has been waaay to insulated for waaay too long. No wonder he just ignores drug laws.

[redqueen]

1. could he be testing his audience?

finding out just how much unadulterated classist BS they will put up with?

[Marr]

3. Oh god- I forgot to add- he said he tipped the register woman $30.

But made a BIG point of it. And how grateful she was. It was so sick- like this fat moron just jumped right out of 1890.

[redqueen]

12. oh how saintly of him!

:sarcasm:

[zbdent]

53. This is a bribe, straight and true

to "show" how loving he is to the "stupids", er, the working class ...

If this person actually exists, a la "welfare queen pulling up to the welfare office in her Mercedes ..."

[leesa]

63. He TIPPED her?? What a dolt!

How do you go through life not pumping your own gas? I didn't even know full-serve islands existed anymore.

[bananas]

68. Some states have laws against self-serve

NJ is one, I think Oregon is another.

[Straight Shooter]

72. You are correct. We cannot pump our own gas in Oregon. n/t

[eridani]

86. True dat. And you amuse those of us on the other side of the Columbia

Well, some of you anyway. The intently puzzled look on some of the faces of drivers of cars with Oregon plates as they hold the nozzle and stare at it....

[Straight Shooter]

92. LOL. It is a sight to behold, isn't it? n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

64. Was dude wearing a talk silk tophat and monocle, I wonder?

[ComerPerro]

5. They will put up with all of his classist BS

he is always talking to them about the $80 apiece Cubans he smokes, the fine dining he enjoys with elite company, the golf resorts he goes to.

Hell, I even remember one time he described how refreshing it was to get out and be among "normal, regualr people, making $175,000 a year" (and they complained that it wasn't enough money).

[redqueen]

10. *retch*... i think it's because they want so desperately to believe

that they are either already a part of, or someday will be a part of that lifestyle

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there aren't enough puking smileys in the world to properly express how i feel about that way of looking at life.

[ComerPerro]

13. "I like Rush because he is just like me, plain, simple, midwestern folk"

Yeah? Is that why the multi-millionare resides in Florida and doesn't even know how to pump gas?

[redqueen]

18. hahahaha... come on... nobody says that, do they?

he's a pampered, drug-addicted, alleged former man-whore!

oh yeah, he's so simple and midwestern. what the hell does that even mean, anyway? jeffrey dahmer was from the midwest. so frickin what if people are from the midwest? grrrr! stupid lemmings love branding though, don't they? ooh look, a label!

sorry...

:rant:

[ComerPerro]

21. i know a lot of people who think hes a regular guy of average means

[redqueen]

32. wow... i wish it was painful to be that delusional...

maybe then people might seek help

:(

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

84. Yes, it should cause physical pain, or at least annoying flatulence.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

87. My neighbor has a bumper sticker that reads:

Too bad stupidity isn't painful.

[lectrobyte]

28. $175K a year? what kind of "regular people" jobs pay that?

[Turbineguy]

2. Yeah Rush

It's kinda like what happens in an economic collapse. You have to do things for your self.

[VolcanoJen]

4. What a magical, happy, candy-land fuzzy smiley universe Rush lives in.

I couldn't find a full-serve gas station in Cincinnati if I spent three hours searching for one.

Since, I'd say, 1990 or so.

Now, imagining that most of Rush's listeners are simple working folk like me, isn't he showing his stripes with a rant like that? I can imagine working-class wingnuts staring at their radio, saying, "Fuck, I haven't enjoyed the luxury of full service gas pumping since Bush's daddy was president."

[Marr]

8. That's what I was thinking. What the hell is his audience saying to

that crap? They must suddenly realize- some of them at least- that they aren't in fact one of the rich.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

65. Yes, what an uncomfortable moment of cognitive dissonance THAT must be

[lpbk2713]

6. Somebody ought to send him that E-Mail

The one telling people to beware of the HIV/AIDS infected hypodermic syringe that has been secretly attached to fuel pump nozzles. That should really make his day.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. Or the one, (which happens to be true)

about the static electricity causing fires at the pump. He'd never get his overblown bloviating gasbag self out of the car again.

[Hugin]

7. I suppose this is his way of asking for more work visas...

I'd hate to have him around any sort of flammable equipment.

All that hot air is likely to set it off.

[Child_Of_Isis]

9. Wonder how his audience took to that story?

Most likely they pump their own gas. Who doesn't anyway? I never see anything but self serve.

Also I wonder how his audience feels about the 100 dollar bill brag?

Yeah, they all carry 100 dollar bills to the gas station. :eyes:

[Twillig]

25. Gas stations I go to DO NOT TAKE 100 dollar bills

I don't think fifties get much love either. Counterfeiting, ya know. I wonder if that bit of the story wasn't BS.


If Limbaugh lived out here in Oregon, he'd bitch that his maid couln't get out and fill his tank because of the bad ol' gummint.

[Child_Of_Isis]

47. Now that you mentioned it...

by god they don't take $100 bills do they...good catch.

Pure B.S....wonder if his audience caught on? Probaby not.

[Critters2]

80. Yep, the local Casey's,

where I pump my (own) gas, doesn't take any bills over $20s. Says so, in a sign taped to the cash register.

I doubt Rush has ever been to a Casey's.

[MuseRider]

11. He's complaining?

He had $30 left from his $100 left to tip her with? Lucky guy, wish I did.

[bunkerbuster1]

14. Why is he going inside in fhe first place?

He doesn't have a credit (or debit) card to use at the pump?

[reichstag911]

57. Without his Viagra handy,...

...he wouldn't realize that he could slide it right on in! :evilgrin:

[bunkerbuster1]

70. Not funny.

That's why I won't be stealing that line. nosirreebob.

[reichstag911]

71. Yes, it was,...

...and yes, you will!

[Minnesota Libra]

15. Too bad we'll never know what the average working repub thought nt

[Swamp Rat]

16. Someday someone is going to kick the tar outta that lazy blowhard,

and I hope someone takes pictures. :D

[norml]

19. The joy of being a lout has always been a big part of Nazi/Fascist appeal.

All the right wing radio clowns sell how fun and funny it is to be evil.

It's an old shtick.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm

[shain from kane]

20. Did he come up short? Or just barely enough? n/t

[LSK]

22. are you series1?!?!

Nobody could be this clueless and out of touch!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[lpbk2713]

26. Pimple-Butt lives in an alternate universe.

He has no clue how the real world exists.

[LSK]

34. and idiots think hes an expert

:rofl:

[MemphisTiger]

23. He can't pump gas but he can get you any number

of prescription drugs like narcotics and dick pills without any problem? What a tool.

[Rosemary2205]

24. No gas station here would touch a $100 bill

every station I go to in my neck of the woods says they won't take anything over a $20 - I'm assuming to keep losses from counterfits down.

And yeah, Rush is a bloviating piece of blubber. At this point I have to work pretty hard to remind myself he deserves some small respect on the basis of supposedly being a human being.

[RB TexLa]

43. of couse they take them, they just mark that brown pen thing across them

[shain from kane]

54. I always ask them to mark any bills that I receive in change from them

with that brown pen thing. I tell them that I don't want counterfeit bills passed to me in return. Always gets a laugh.
There's some other device that they feed the bill in like on rollers, and it spits it back out if it's good.
I kind of figured that the brown pen thing and all those other devices were like bogus terror alerts to get your attention, and warned you not to try anything on your own initiative.

[Twillig]

60. No, they don't take them

They just tell you to go pound sand and that brown pen up your ass.

[Freedom_Aflaim]

88. They have to is you push the issue

(Well they NEVER have to take your $100 bill, they can choose to let you have the gas for free)

Ignoring for a moment the issue of change.

Let say you buy $100 of gas for your big ass SUV, and offer to pay with a $100 bill.

Its legal tender (for all debts public and private), if they refuse the $100 bill then they have refused payment and you can walk out the door...i.e. They cant refuse to take money and then try to press charges that you tried to take gas without paying them money.

I've heard of case where that very thing happened. Clerk refused to take the $50 bill (for like $40 bucks in gas), called the cops because customer refused to offer other payment. The customer waited patiently for the cops to arrive. When the clerk accused the customer of trying to steal (i.e. leave without paying), the cop explained that if they refuse to take money, then they have no cause for complaint. i.e. he told the store to pound sand.

Of course, if you did this alot, it would make buying gas VERY inconvenient.

Me, I just use me debit card and be done with it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

79. "No bills over $20"

That's everywhere now - service stations, McDonald's, etc.

I think it's more that they don't want to make change, which makes sense - when I was in food service you'd get dicks who'd buy a small drink so they could break $100. Hey asshole, how about asking for smaller bills at the bank/check casher? I understand $20s, because that's what most ATMs give. But to carry around C-notes (unless they're for a major purchase or something) is just showing off.

[RB TexLa]

81. I've never seen signs like that

[Ezlivin]

27. Try self-service when you're in a wheelchair and it's raining, asshat!

I don't know how many times I've done my own self-serve from my wheelchair in all kinds of weather. Yeah, it's a bitch, but you know what? I have a car. I have money to afford the maintenance. I have money for gasoline. My vehicle is paid for and is in excellent shape. And I'm in great shape for a paralyzed man; I can hoist my dead ass around with the best of 'em.

What is that drug-addled non-veteran Koolaid® drinker bitching about?

[Rosemary2205]

35. Oh don't even get me started on that.

I'm still really new at this wheelchair thing. I don't complain about my lot in life. I'm too grateful to be alive and have people who care about me and still have a JOB. When I hear people whining about such trivial things like this I swear I just want to smack one modicum of sense into them.

[Ezlivin]

39. A/B's have all the fun

A/Bs (able-bodied) folks are largely unaware of how easy life is. When I was a healthy young man I never, ever thought about the limitations of {shudder} a wheelchair. I don't even think I saw people in wheelchairs until after I was in one.

I'm on my 26th year in my wheelchair. Things get more familiar but they don't necessarily get easier.

But, hey, you're not mentally crippled, right? Thank the gods we still have our minds....

[ThoughtCriminal]

29. It reminds me of Bush Sr's cash register encounter

He had never seen a price scanner and was astonished.

[Marr]

46. That's *exactly* what it made me think of.

Insulated. Totally insulated from the real world, but just chock-full of opinions about it.

[rniel]

30. Oh yeah Rush the common man from the heartland

Self proclaimed working class hero. Has never pumped his own gas before.

:rofl:

[nealmhughes]

31. Manhattan is the only place I know of where one gets the gas pumped.

After you pay. If you can find a gas station. If you are rich and dumb enough to have a car in NYC in the first place.

[reichstag911]

58. New Jersey,...

...I believe, is still all full serve.

[NJCher]

62. yep

We never pump our own gas here.




Cher

[Ian David]

33. Rush usually has his drug counselor pump his gas for him...

to protect his privacy.

[Rosemary2205]

36. Maybe he could hook Larry King up to the car.

:)

[LittleClarkie]

37. And WE'RE the elitists?!

Oh geez.

[WI_DEM]

38. by your heading I thought he was caught getting high on gas fumes

[DefenseLawyer]

40. I heard Jeff Christie pumped his share of gas

back it Pittsburgh. So to speak.

[shain from kane]

41. How did he know that he needed gas? Doesn't sound like he had his posse

with him.
Hey, Rush, they sell cigars at gas stations. You don't need to go to a foreign country to get a smoke.

[SpiralHawk]

42. K and r - 0n account of soul weariness

from hearing the self-proclaimed republicon "elite" whining over how tough life is.

Cry me a feakin river.

[The_Casual_Observer]

44. It's a big bragging deal. After all the money he has made, he still

feels the need and is compelled to brag about it, about how he can afford full serve. I'll bet he is always throwing stuff like that up to the listeners, no matter how much money he has, he's still just a low class pig guy and he knows it.

[Marr]

48. OH! You just reminded me about another thing-

He also said something like, "I looked at the different grades, not knowing what they were exactly- but I knew I needed the highest number. The best, the most expensive one".

Such an elitist asshole.

[Child_Of_Isis]

49. oh for fux sake...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


throw your money to the gas barons piggie rush!

[The_Casual_Observer]

50. It isn't elite, it's SOP for new money pig people. The only difference

between him & the run of the mill ones is that he is obliged to fill time on the radio, so all the personal details get broadcast.
After all, what's the point of having all that money if you can tell people about it?

[ThoughtCriminal]

52. I thought he was and "Expert"

"I looked at the different grades, not knowing what they were..."

And yet, he fully understands why todays high gas prices are "Clinton's fault".

[TheCowsCameHome]

69. I think he said he paid $4.40 a gallon. What's with that?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

85. Presumably dude used to pump his own gas at one point, like in the 70's,

before he became a world famous and wealthy clown.

I guess time and oxycontin have done their worst and dude doesn't even remember what the grades are all about anymore.

[in_cog_ni_to]

45. He complained about pumping his own gas? What a wimp! I've pumped

my own gas forever. The only time it bothers me is when it's 10 below zero and snowing. That ass lives in Florida, doesn't he? waaaaah! waaaaah! waaaah! WIMP.

[TheCowsCameHome]

51. Shows how far he is from the real world. What stupid BS.

Imagine that. Having to pump his own gas.

He is such a he-man.

[MrSlayer]

55. I heard this too.

The whole point of the story was that he accidentally pumped his own gas because he was at the full service pump when he thought he was at the self serve pump and the moral was "Gas prices are what gas prices are". It was kind of amusing listening to him describe his bumbling at the pump. To his credit though he left a $36 tip to the cashier.

[shain from kane]

56. That SOB's so lazy, he'd pay to watch someone have sex, using his pills.

[LSK]

59. K&R - lets get this on greatest

[Ilsa]

61. His listeners in TX will hear out out of touch he is.

This is great. And they were thinking he was just a regular guy like them. Idiot doesn't even know how to operate a gas pump.

Jesus I've been pumping my own gas since 1976 or 77.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

67. Amazingly though most people seem completely able to block out the

unpleasant implications of a "reality check" moment like this, as long as there aren't TOO many of them, and they're spaced out a little.

That's why so many Texans, who generally possess such a strong state chauvinism, and you'd think could spot a fake Texan from a hundred miles, COMPLETELY buy into the myth that Bush is a Texan despite every evidence, on the record and otherwise, that he's a complete phoney baloney, born in CT, prepschooled in Mass, college at Yale and B-school at Harvard, who only pimps his year or two he spent at "San Jacinto Middle School" or whatever when there's an election on.

It's "comfortable" to believe that one of "their own" (white Texan) is in the White House. Any evidence that creeps in that the guy is a total phoney who couldn't give a damn about them is ignored, as long as it happens infrequently and spaced out, so the overall illusion can be maintained.

[Ilsa]

82. How very true. Still, if many are like me and haven't used full

service in 30 years (hell, it is hard to find one unless you are in Dallas or Houston), maybe it'll make a dent in some thick skulls. Yeah, you are spot on.

:argh:

[upi402]

66. just acclimating the ditto-heads to his royal status and untouchable

-ness?

:shrug:

[Fire Walk With Me]

73. Odd he didn't harangue the outrageous gas prices instead.

Was there nary a mention? Oh the pain, the pain...

[farmbo]

74. LOL...a Pill-Poppin' Porsche Populist. Next week: "How I ordered a pizza!

eom

[stepnw1f]

75. Lol... Poser Playing Pretend Land

and suckers gobbling it all up. This guy has screwed these idiot right wingers heads up bigtime. I think it is only Karma that they all fall for it too.

[Rainscents]

76. Don't yea know... getting his fat ass out of the car causes hemorrhoids?

[Truthiness Inspector]

77. Pumping your own gas is hard work! n/t

[Rufus T. Firefly]

78. I've heard him brag that he never pumps his own gas.

Great to see that the newfangled pump technology is beyond him.

Wonder if she knew who he was? If she didn't, that REALLY pissed him off.

[Freedom_Aflaim]

83. Is he from NJ or Oregon?

I undersand that Self Service is illegal there.

While I would have thought that some like limbaugh would have traveled, I can see where someone who rarely/never leaves NJ/Oregon might get confused if they were out of state.

Still...wat kind of rant is that for a talk show? Getting low on material on i guess.

[Liberal In Texas]

89. Ewwwwwwwww He had to mix with the peasants. The dittoheads.

Ewwwwwww.

For a moment in time, he had to live life like the rest of us do. Except, he didn't really care that the fill-up might cost him not being able to pay his next mortgage or car payment.

Oh, and where are those little servants that used to fill the Rush-mobile? The local gas stations can't afford to keep them on, Rush! The corps have even figured out that a little automation will elimate their jobs for good.

Just suffer through it, OK?

[SensibleAmerican]

90. The Republicans wanted self-serve gas

remember?

PS Oregon and New Jersey are full serve states still.

[Liberal In Texas]

91. And ain't it amazing that the gas is the same price as everywhere else?

Go figure.