Camping Etiquette

DutchmenSport wrote:

nickthehunter wrote:

JimK-NY wrote:
Or time for my favorite: drivers of cars who pick the only gas station aisle with diesel and go into the station to pay, get coffee and use the facilities.

Consider for a moment. If you had bought a gasser instead of a diesel you wouldn't have that problem. I'm sure the old lady pulling up to the pump isn't doing it for the express purpose of ensuring you have to wait longer. So who really made the bad decision? The old lady who pulled up to the first available pump closes to the gas station door or the guy that bought the diesel? Actually neither; life happens, get over it.

I can tell we are now evolving into a new subject, but I can't resist this one! Actually, this is my favorite pet peeve.

It's not the little old lady that pulls up and fill up using the island with the ONLY diesel pump. Now, she is not the problem. Most "little old ladies"... and "little old men" too, are curious enough, when done pumping to move out of the way if they want to go inside the store.

The problem is with younger - much younger - folks that pull up with a gaggle of people and every one has to use the bathroom and buy their own things. Meanwhile, the driver leaves the vehicle sitting at the pump, and is usually the very last one back.

The problem is with those folks that park, go inside to pay for the fuel first, come out, pump, then go back in and buy more stuff, leaving the car sit at the pump.

The problem is with those folks who pump their gas, pay with a card at the pump, then go inside for 20 or 30 minutes while their vehicle sits at the ONLY diesel pump isle. When they come out, they have a half eaten sandwich in one had, and a half drunk soda in the other.

The problem is with those who will pull blocking the ONLY diesel pump, located in the middle of the island with gas pumps on each end of the same island. Yet, they have lots of room and space behind them, if they would have just stopped 3 feet farther back, everyone could have gotten fuel.

The problem is when you've been waiting in line with a 35 foot trailer and your total length is 55 feet. You've waited for 2 others to finish pumping their gas, as you are now next in line. You begin inching forward to take your spot, being careful not to clip any other cars or the island itself, and then about the time you get up there, some moron zooms right in front of you and stops in front of the pump. You slam on your brakes and give yourself whiplash they barge in so fast.

And, in every situation, there are multiple open bays with gas pumps only.

These are the morons... not the little old lady who has common sense and believes in courtesy.

Knowing all the potential pitfalls why would you go to a typical gas station vs. a truck stop? or at least a station with a separate diesel island?
I learned long ago not to get mixed up with the 4 wheelers at your typical gas station.
Those drivers are not deliberately getting in your way. They are unaware of your circumstances and just going about their business they way they normally do.
On the other hand the guy towing the 35' trailer should know better than to get caught up in all the madness.