Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:55:39 -0700
Reply-To: Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Oregon gasoline- was Steve Sandlin keys win again
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Steve must have just take a bit too much of his meds at the time.. :/
Steven
91 Westy
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:13 AM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
> My 83.5 had a separate GasKey my 90 does not ~
>
> ORR ~ DeanB
>
> On 20 Jun , 2014, at 8:17 AM, Abel Longoria wrote:
>
> > I went to a VW show and shine get together here in Houston this past
> > weekend and actually met Steve.. He's located here in the area and I
> didn't
> > know of him or what he did etc until he told me. I'm very new to the VW
> > scene.. hehe.
> >
> > Anyways he asks me about my keys and I show him the original key on my
> key
> > ring and explain that it opens all of the doors, hatch and gas cap. He
> > says... uh its not suppose to open the gas cap.
> >
> > doh!
> >
> > I stuck my key in the cap turned it and it unlocked and came off. Steve
> > said, yea... its not supposed to work that way. hehe. I thought it was
> > supposed to. I figured thats how they worked and that everyones key
> opened
> > their own gas cap.
> >
> > guess not.
> >
> > Abel
> > www.DasMotoClub.com
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> ---- Rob <vwrobb@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>> At 6/19/2014 10:28 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> .
> >>>> Here's a unique and amusing gas station thing...In Oregon they have a
> >> law
> >>>> that prohibits you from pumping your own gasoline...so when you get
> gas
> >>>> there you hand the gas jockey your key and your credit card or cash
> and
> >> sit
> >>>> there while he/she pumps it,...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Once I was getting gas in Oregon, I've handed her my key, card & I'm
> >>> waiting. It's been too long, I get out & go around to see her
> >>> twisting the key in the lock. The lock was not moving, just the
> >>> key.... It didn't break.
> >>> I hate buying gas in Oregon, one bad experience <g>.
> >>>
> >>> Rob
> >>> vwrobb@gmail.com
> >>
> >> Whenever in Oregon I always open and close the gas cap myself. No
> >> attendant has ever refused to allow that. I also ran into self service
> in
> >> Oregon, though I was not allowed to use it. There was (at least in
> 2012) a
> >> chain of stations where members of the public could pay a small amount
> of
> >> money to buy a "share" of the company. Then they were allowed to fill
> >> their own tanks at those stations. In fact, there wasn't even an
> employee
> >> present at the station. The pump was unlocked with a code. I don't
> know
> >> if these stations are still operating.
> >> --
> >> David McNeely
> >>
>
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