Gas station customer has poor etiquette: photo

To understand this action, you would need to live or spend time in Dallas or a similar city where the "little penis syndrome trucks" are all the rage.

To begin with, like many cities, very few residents are natives of or grew up in the city. It is a melting pot of people from all over the world This makes for some interesting cultural and fad developments.

The current vehicle fad in Dallas is to buy the biggest, heaviest, longest and loudest four door, long bed, dually truck they can find. It preferably has oversize tires and a lift. It is preferably diesel with the loudest, illegal aftermarket exhaust that can be found. It is to never be shut off at convenience stores or gas stations, so that the exhaust and noise can irritate as many people as possible.

It is mandatory that it must be parked in a manner that renders four parking spaces unusable by anything other than a Smart Car or a motorcycle. They want to make it as difficult as possible for the peasants in their mere passenger cars to be able to see for safe exit of parking spaces.

The poor guys in the picture are doing the best they can with what they can afford. They take up four parking places and then commandeer the innocent womans gas pump so as to irritate an extra person.

They are simply displaying their "little penis syndrome" the best way the can with what they have to work with. It appears that they are simply doing the best they can to fit in with the culture of the day.

One more thing about the monster trucks. It usually appears that the guys that actually NEED vehicles like this for their work, like welders, plumbing contractors and the like, do their best to NOT be obnoxious with their vehicles and seem to be concerned about how they are parked and see that they are as unobtrusive as possible. Since they have these vehicles out of necessity, rather than compensation for their "little penis syndrome" they seem to operate and park them differently.

So basically the guys in the picture can't afford one of these $50,000 monstrosities, so they are improvising so as to irritate as many people as possible with what they have to work with.

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You seem to be quite familiar with this "little penis syndrome."

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I get a little irritated when someone with a gasser takes up one of the few dual petrol/diesel pumps at the station when there are many petrol only pumps free. What we see in the picture is a completely different species of jerk. I have been looked askance at a few times when fueling my Benzes (petrol or diesel) since the fuel door is on the opposite side from most U.S. made vehicles. I also tend to put my motorcycle to the left of the pump when fueling, since it leans to the left when parked, and I fill until the meniscus touches the filler neck. This is much easier to see when standing to the right of the bike while fueling.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

Yes, these vehicles are everywhere around here.

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YES!

I don't know how many times I get to a station and the only pumps filled up are the diesel/petrol ones. And not a single car other than mine is a diesel.

I've been known to cut people off for the last open diesel pump.

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1984 300D "Elsa" odo reset 6/2011 147k
1983 300TD "Mitzi" ~268k OM603 powered
1995 E300 "Adelheid" 262k [Sold]

I'm going to play devil's advocate here, and assume that something was in the way when she initially parked, and that the #6 pump is broken, and the #7 pump was empty when she started filling up.

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Is it possible that all of these people are together, filling up on the same card? I can't imagine why someone would use the nozzle off the opposite side of the pump.

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

Sometimes pumps are down for one reason or another. If it was broken, and the other side was open I'd just grab the hose and not bother moving. A small car like that is what, 16 gallons? Shouldn't take too long to fill up.


If I had $1,500 to burn I could turbo my 4cyl little truck and walk all over these guys

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Is it just me, or do all parties concerned look 50lb+ overweight? Don't mess with Texas. They'll sit on your head.

Where have you been? Literally 90% of the people I see on the street, corporations, etc... are overweight. Now that I'm older, I can partly understand why. It's difficult to keep fit without exercising like a crazy person.

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

NYC. Where people actually WALK rather than sitting in their cars for hours. And where 50% of the population wasn't born in Dumberica, and thus hasn't adapted to sickening eating habits and lifestyles yet.

If that other thread is true, you might be missing a letter in sit

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Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

Can't blame em' If you had BBQ readily available all year ....

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So, from pictures of 3 people in a Metropolitan area of 9 million, I think, you conclude that everyone in the area is overweight? Very interesting.


Okay, before someone jumps my a$$ to correct me. The DFW Metropolitan area, which includes; Dallas, Tarrant and Collin Counties, is a little over 5 million.

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