Fun at the Diesel Pump Today

[rbattelle]

What scares me and has caused me to step away from the pumps before is the dumb ***** that can't get off the cell phones while fueling. They jump all over you for filling cans in the back of a pick-up, yet never say anything to the cell phone users.
I do not have plastic bedliners, I use treated plywood in all of my trucks so there is no static electricity issue, just can't seem to explain that to some attendants.

Cell phone use while fueling doesn't bother me, but the people who get back in the car while refueling do.

EVERY time I get out of my wife's car I get a terrible static shock the moment I touch anything metal. I can't be the only one. Very unsafe to discharge that spark next to a fuel nozzle.

-Ryan

 

[brods]

What scares me and has caused me to step away from the pumps before is the dumb ***** that can't get off the cell phones while fueling. They jump all over you for filling cans in the back of a pick-up, yet never say anything to the cell phone users.

I do not have plastic bedliners, I use treated plywood in all of my trucks so there is no static electricity issue, just can't seem to explain that to some attendants.



Go figger... .....



Mike.

What is wrong with cell phones (other than how they distract people)? I have never have had a cell phone spark or heard of anyone who has had a shock, spark etc from a cell phone. When we hydro tested underground gasoline tanks (full with gas) the test unit ran on a 9V battery supposedly because the spark from 9V was not hot enough to ignite the vapors. We were trained to plug any 120VAC cords together over our heads to keep that spark away from the vapors.

Cell phone use while fueling doesn't bother me, but the people who get back in the car while refueling do.



EVERY time I get out of my wife's car I get a terrible static shock the moment I touch anything metal. I can't be the only one. Very unsafe to discharge that spark next to a fuel nozzle.



-Ryan

I've seen a guy sitting with a wash tub with several inches of lacquer thinner between his legs while washing some metal plate off, he was smoking. Nothing happened. As a kid saw a moron pour gas on a bees nest, light it and repeat. He got tired of re lighting it so poured more gas on before it went out. You can guess what happened. Moron swung the flaming can around a few times before dropping it and running. Someone put it out with a garden hose, no boom. Oh and the older neighbor kid who opened the family's station wagon's gas cap and put the barrel of the cap gun in spout and popped off a cap.....



Considering how many idiots there are and how few gas station explosions there are, I don't get worried about what anyone else does at the pumps. Now if they ever start using hydrogen, which ignites at much lower concentrations than gasoline vapors.....

 

[NIsaacs]

Oh and the older neighbor kid who opened the family's station wagon's gas cap and put the barrel of the cap gun in spout and popped off a cap.....

.....

:-laf:-laf



Nick

 

[EDankievitch]

America, Built/ Forged on High School Diploma's Being Destroyed with College Degrees... ... .


Not sayin all degrees are bad just seems that the ones coming out these days have failed the common sense class

 

[brods]

Curiosity got the best of me so a quick search = http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp

Bottom line: no need to worry about a cell phone causing a boom.



BTW static charge can be generated from the turbulence of the fuel going into the container so if the container is not grounded and the fuel nozzle is not touching the container there could be an issue. I have no idea if treated plywood makes a good ground (I doubt it), but it is best to put the gas cans on the ground and keep the fuel nozzle in contact with the container while filling them.

 

[Wingate]

You are witnessing the results of the "dumbing down" of the public education system over the last 50 years.



Bill

Ya know Bill, a comedy movie came out a few years ago called Idiocracy!. It seems that what was once just a laughable comedy is quickly becoming a biography of modern society.

If you owe it to yourself to watch it, the first 15 minutes are priceless!