Camping Etiquette

rockhillmanor wrote:

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.

Well then get ready to get angered if you pull in behind me!

Because...I pay cash for my gas.
So yes, I am going to pull up to the pump with my MH and toad and go inside to pay. And yes, there may be a line at the register and I will have to stand in it and wait my turn.

I am not shopping inside the gas station, etc. to make you mad. Just exercising my right to pay cash for my fuel instead of a credit card transaction at the pump. So don't be so quick to judge. :W

I think Dutchman's point is not directed at those who go inside to pay, even when they have to stand in line to do so. I, too, have sat behind a seemingly abandoned vehicle for 20 minutes while the owner is literally shopping for all of their supplies, or sitting down eating lunch at the attached fast-food joint inside (yes, been there!). Pull up, go inside to pay (even waiting in line to do so), then come out and pump. After that, MOVE AWAY FROM THE PUMP. You can park somewhere and go back in to do your supply shopping. In other words, the pump is NOT a PARKING place; it is a STOPPING place to fuel up.