As an American I can say for a fact that 99.9% of the gas stations here are self service with perhaps a few exceptions but nowhere near enough for someone to remotely think it's a regular thing so I have no idea what this woman was thinking.
Nearly no place in the US fuels for you. I hear a few places in NJ might and Oregon did until a few years ago. But I'm a bit surprised an American woman was expecting that.
Yeah, even in the places that don't let you pump your own, most people (with brains, that is) realize it's not that way everywhere. When I worked at various gas stations, I frequently had people say, "I don't know how to pump my own gas. I'm from New Jersey (or Oregon)." Meaning they knew they were the special ones.
In NJ, they do have people to pump gas for you. Mandatory for some reason. It's also one of the few northern states that don't have specific incest laws.
As a person familiar with blades ( military, medical, and hunting ) I am shocked that a mother was willing to let a six year old play with a set that could probably kill, butcher, cook and serve a 300 pound boar swine.
I have been stationed overseas several times, and it's shocking how Americans can behave. I had no clue before seeing it for myself. It's one thing to be in a war-torn country where anyone at any time could attempt to kill you. However, it was always emphasized to us be careful, yet respectful. It is quite another thing when you are a "guest" in another country. We are "boots" in their homeland. What I observed was there are three types of Americans overseas. One, respects and enjoys the people, the culture and the history. They will return home filled with many great memories. The second is a schoolyard bully. They are arrogant and think they can do whatever they want, to whomever they want and without repercussions...because we are the big bad US. (They should be happy we're here and they're not talking German, Russian, Chinese...whatever. I got really tired of hearing that.) When they get into trouble, and they will, they think they have all the freedoms and rights of being back in the US with daddy's money and the family lawyer buying their way out of trouble. (It's quite embarrassing.) The third is just angry at being away from home and refuse to learn anything, try anything, or experience anything. They venture off base once, make a mistake, get embarrassed and refuse to do it again, unless it's in a tank. They stay on base and drink away their once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. They go home angry. I have seen the SA (Screaming American) for myself, many times. And yet, how do we treat "visitors" to our country?
I’m born and raised in the US. And I Agree! It’s a shame how a lot of “us” act. It embarrasses me and I’m not even the one doing it. Land of the Free where the rich get richer (and worse mannered) and the poor get poorer.
@@jamieandrew-kromer8008 Also, the rich entitled jerks are the only ones that can afford to travel, and therefore misrepresent the rest of us who act like human beings instead of wannabe deities.
We pump our own gas in my state and the next state over and the state to that. Also, I'm an Anglophile so I frequently call it petrol and raise the boot and bonnet on my car. I can never understand the attitude of these people. It's really no bother to take a moment to help someone.
Having been on an overseas deployment, I have been embarassed at some fellow Americans proving that the "Ugly American Tourist" really does exist! And it is laughable when they try to claim their "constitutional rights" in a foreign country!
For that 1st story, I would have taken out the chef's knife, did a Zip on a cucumber and then grabbed the kids finger and asked him if he wanted me to show Mommy how well the knife works. Do NOT mess with a chef's knives.
"Call your Boss, I want you Fired ! " WRONG!! Find him yourself lady! Why would I want to go get my boss so you can complain and tell him you want him to fire me?? Another example of a person who only uses their head to separate their ears. YourConscience
In the US, in my state, to get your gas pumped by an employee, there needs to be a handicap pump, and you need a handicap mirror hanger. In a station without a designated handicap pump, you need to ask the cashier. If you don't have a handicap tag, they will probably be just short of rude to you.
Where does the lady live in the US that there is a gas station that an attendant comes out to fill the gas for you. I live on the east coast and ever since I was little all stations I ever been to were self serve.
I was 34 years old when DH and I moved our family in 1988 from New Jersey to Kentucky. Pumping my own gas was kind of scary for the first several months. When I travel to visit family back home, I feel lazy having someone else fill up my car’s gas tank. I once forgot where I was, starting to get out of the car, and the attendant came over very quickly to ask me how much and what kind. Oops! He seemed a little nervous.
I did a job in NJ once, and I pulled into the gas station and went to fill my truck like I would anywhere else, and they flipped the fuck out, said it was "illegal" to pump your own gas in NJ. I had never heard of such a thing before. Never did another job in NJ.
Okay, I'm an American, and about that last story, I have to ask how old that story is. The reason I ask, is because there haven't been full service gas pumps (where attendants pump gas for you) in over 20 years. The shouting American should have known that... what the hell (excuse my language) made her think that anyone was going to pump her petrol/gas in another company. Sounds like she was trying to take advantage of being a foreigner. And please understand.... not all Americans are like her.
In the USA it's the same with the gas stations (you pump your own gas) ...Except, in New Jersey. It is actually against the law to pump your own gas in that one state. I guess they think that a "professional" is needed.
You are forgetting Oregon: "Oregon allows self-service gas stations in counties of less than 40,000 people but maintains prohibitions everywhere else in the state. A bill to allow gas stations in the Beaver State to designate a quarter of their pumps as self-service failed in 2019."
@@ryanwalters1682 I believe it's still illegal to self-serve gas in Oregon, and it was illegal until recently in New Jersey. Other than that, the only place I know where many stations have a staff member who will pump on request is Florida, where many residents are elderly and may have mobility issues or be easily confused in operating the pumps.
@@ryanwalters1682 I live in Texas and full serve gas stations went out in the late 1970's except in Oregon where state law required an attendant till the late 90's. I was a "gas jockey" back in the 70's when I was a teenager.
For a while, there was exactly one place in Australia which I knew of which still had driveway attendants who pumped fuel for you. That was at a little between-towns stop where inter-town buses often stop to allow the passengers to grab a bite to eat on the fairly long ride. Some years ago, a particular bus service which used to stop there was replaced with another form of public transport and the place dropped the driveway service soon after, so it's now self-serve only, like every other place I know of.
I hear that there are some states in the US that require an attendant to pump gas while you wait, but that is not the norm here in the states. Certainly not in the South-Eastern part of the country.
I'm in New Zealand and the sense of entitlement is strong in Americans. Using the justice system as retribution is abhorrent! Threatening people's lively hood is disgusting just to make your ego whole is plan wrong!!
Not all Americans, just the few very loud and obnoxious ones that sadly have more money than the much more respectful and humble ones who barely have the time or money to travel two states over, let alone outside the country.
No you didn't fill your tank up and the pay. You have to put your card into the machine first. The machine will tell you how much money you are allowed to spend. Then you cant start filling up.
As an American I find it so unfair that often American’s who can afford international travel are unappreciative of the opportunity and experience, so ignorant of customs and terminology in even other English speaking countries. and are basically the last people I’d want representing Americans abroad.
I can only assume that Shouty American was one of the "'Real' Housewives of New Jersey". NJ is a small state, and the rest of us here know that if we go to Pennsylvania, New York, or Delaware (each only about a 2 hr drive from anywhere in the state), we have to pump our own gas. Did Shouty even know that she's supposed to drive on the left side of the street in the UK? How did she even get to the petrol station without crashing?
Sounds like "pet-roll" lady was from New Jersey. It ultimately depends on the accent. Only NJ and Oregon have full service laws in place in the states. Everyone else pumps their own damn gas.
The last one is not believable and is apparently just a slam against Americans. Almost all places here (U.S.) have gas that you pump yourself and pay at the pump, so it would be extremely unlikely that the mentioned lady would not know how to do this.
From what I've seen on here, the system in Russia for pumping fuel is seriously fucked up. I'm assuming that it's to prevent 'pump and dash'. It appears that you choose a pump, put the nozzle in the filler, lock the trigger then go to pay for the amount you want. By the time you get back to your vehicle the pump should have delivered the required quantity. Unfortunately this results in dummies trying to drive off with the pump still running or just with the nozzle still in the filler pipe. At best the nozzle detaches from the hose. Older pumps don't do this, so the hose detaches from the pump. The oldest don't detach at all and the pump body is pulled over with tens of gallons of fuel being sprayed everywhere. At worst (and it *does* happen) the fuel catches fire and the whole station burns to the ground.
In the United States, with the exception of about two or three states, you pump your own gas. Though we don't use the term most of us understand petrol is gasoline.
Hello, i have only just found your channel but am binge watching. Its absolutely hilarious and here in the UK we have a theory that "Karens", as you so delightfully name them are what we always called the " Jobsworth, i.e. ( more than my job's worth to do anything to help ). My personnel theory is that Cro -Magnon Man , never actually died out but just continued to interbreed every so often to keep their lineage going. We all know them when we meet them. Brilliant, have subscribed as well.
So is the last. Americans may be arrogant about a lot of things, but they do know how to fill their own fuel tanks (petrol or gas or diesel or whatever you want to call it) and aren't so stupid as to not know what a que is and how to get in one. Sorry, he lost me at "tell those other cars to get out of my way."
Neither are fantasy. Met waaay to many women who do not know how to pump gas. Many from NYC. They never had a car ever, then decide to rent a car in Europe. I have seen it happen many a time. As for the Chef part, Seen that too. Usually when you are doing Carving's for banquets, so you bring a small knife roll with a dozen knives. You tend to have Karen's in those circles. It seems Both Balloceni and Mermur A haven't been around the world much. People are really stupid at times, regardless of country of origin.
@@silverthorngoodtree5533 actually, I have. And as a woman, yes, I've always pumped my own gas. No matter which side of the road I am obliged to drive on.
In Oregon at least, all gas stations have an attendant to pump your gas for you because the law doesn't allow for self-serve (they recently changed the law for some very rural gas stations) of gasoline. As a native Oregonian, I SINCERELY hope that crazy @$$hat is NOT from my state though!
A little BS in the last story, I think. She just might have got a free sandwich, but there's no way she would have been given a free tank of petrol when it wasn't anything to do with the filling station.
While the vast majority of gasoline/petrol stations in the US are self-serve you can still find a few stations that have both and in a handful of states employee service is not only REQUIRED but the law. I leave it to doubters to look it up, Think west coast.
Weird that you can pump your fuel first, then pay at the pump seems a high theft risk. Pay at pump requires your payment first. Something's fishy about this story.
Yep did seem they got it backwards, as pay at pump pre allocates/reserves/hold £100 from the card without actually taking it (not actually sure how it does it) , you can't pay at pump after filling up you have to put your card in first use chip and pin and then you take the card out and then fill upto £100 and transaction is completed once you finish filling (if you fueled up £40 then it only takes £40 from card and then the other £60 hold is released) They are setup this way so £100 can always be debited from he card, if £100 can't be held it won't activate the pump and fraud attempt prevented (they likely just fall back to just fuel up and drive off to pay at kiosk option) the USA way is bonkers as they still use magswipe at pump (easy fraud) and you pay afterwards at pay at pump (again another easy fraud) in usa so no guarantee of payment as they might just drive off with fake number plates (really unsure why they haven't changed all pay at pumps in usa to chip and pin that would reduce pay at pump drive offs to near zero)
Yeah...... Here in the US we dont pay people to fill our gas tanks. Maybe it was a think the past but as far as i know that doesn't exist today. Edit: also no wonder other country's hate americans visiting them. Most of us are entitled brats. While i know that this certainly doesnt make up for anything they do, I'm sincerely sorry for the awful behavior these people bring to your country's. And I hope you all have a wonderful day! You're all lovely people and if anyone tries to say otherwise then they are the foolish ones who's sight is blocked by anger and hatred for the world around them. Have a wonderful day/night!!
www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/b85ibp/em_wants_her_steaks_extra_well_done_fine/ Theres the continuation from the first story. This literally took me 32 seconds to find.
I don't know if it's because I have other channels that I'm subscribed to also but I definitely heard both of these stories before. I'll post the same thing here that I did there. We apologize for exporting a Karen from the US. They are a particularly nasty breed here. You must have gotten one specifically from New Jersey or Oregon. The only two states in the in the country that use full service stations for some unknown stupid reason...
All of them post the same stories. I've heard the one with the shouty American before, but not the first one. My strategy is to subscribe to the ones with the nicest voices and delivery, and just put up with it if they end up repeating ones I've heard already. And I join with your apology for the shouty American. I'm an American, too, and living in the UK, so I try to compensate for our Karens (and Chads) by being as nice as possible to everyone I meet here. :-) Oh, and the lady was probably from Oregon, where it is against the law for you to pump your own gas.
Oklahoma has some full service stations... as I lived in Idabell Oklahoma and never got to pump my own gas until I moved to Maryland and was spoiled and had to learn to do it myself lol
Not entirely a stupid reason. Self-serve is relatively new, gaining popularity after the "oil crisis" of the 1970s. The dinosaur pumps used back then lacked safety features found on pumps put in later self-serve stations, so the old full-service stations did not allow customers to pump their own for liability reasons. Seriously, can you imagine thousands of Karens using those old pumps? The station lots would have constantly been awash in pools of gas, getting into the groundwater and going up in giant balls of flame. The carnage would have been horrendous. I guess places like Oregon are just slow to adapt to changing technology.
Yea! first. I'm American and I'm 51, and I think I've only had somebody who pumps the gas for you at a station a few times in my life. At least 95% of the time you pump your own gas. And nowadays, most people just use a card at the pump to pay so this is not an accurate depiction of how American gas stations work.
Well, it is accurate about the ones in states where its apparently illegal for you to pump your own gas. I will probably never understand the thinking of those people. Same with smoking near a gas pump. Hell, I could throw a lit match into a bucket of gasoline and nothing would happen. If a gas station explodes because of someone lighting up a cigarette, then the cause would be a leak from the gas pump. Gasoline only explodes when its dispersed into the air in fine droplets. Also called gasoline vapor.
I'm old enough to remember that gas stations in the US always pumped the gas for you. And then cleaned your windows, checked your oil, and acted like they worked at a "Service Station". This was back in the 50s and 60s. Not sure when that all went away. Oregon had a law that forbade people from pumping their own gas and required training for the people who did it for you. I think as a way of decreasing unemployment. Maybe. Someone told me that Oregon has relaxed this law now.
@@cyberherbalist I could never imagine having someone else pumping gas into my own car. Like, what if they accidentally pump gas into my diesel? Thats just a lawsuit waiting to happen.
@@MrShadow1617 The old gas pumps did not have safety features like automatic shutoffs. It was very easy to pump gas directly onto the pavement or overflow a tank while filling it, creating a spreading pool of gas that would vaporize and create a serious vapor/explosion hazard, not to mention pollution hazard.
@@brettmiddleton7949 Well, I guess I learned something today. Also, theres one more thing. Usually, when the pump auto shut off engages, the tank is usually not completely full. Usually I got in an extra 4-5l more fuel before the tank was actually full.
The more I read of these stories (and to be honest I may stop bothering soon) the less I believe them. I find it really hard to believe that there are people so stupidly, pointlessly, psychotically self-absorbed and entitled that they would behave in such a way.
Work retail and you'll see them, trust me. In my area we have some woman driving a Masarati that parks where the gridlines cross( taking up four spaces), in pick up spaces( where people do the order online and pick it up at the store) and even in the cart corrals with half the car sticking out into the travel lanes. Only thing she hasn't done is park in a handicap spot or the firelane. All the retail establishments are just waiting to catch that car in a handicap spot and have it towed.
We Americans can be such an embarrassment in other countries sometimes. I'd like to say that NOT ALL Americans are like that. Some of us actually adapt to the norms of the countries we visit. Glad people post these stories in the hopes that others can learn how NOT to behave/act. xD
6:50 alot of places managers and some employees dress in casual clothes or non uniform outfits... So its not too shocking.... I work where black polo and black slacks are the uniform even for manager.. In our (SOP.. Store operations procedures) Our manager rarley wears anything close to black... I usually wear skinny jeans and a sweater as its usually on the colder side in the store. Or if no sweater anything i pull out of my closet that's got some black on it... Usually patterns. And that's most stores were i live So if your a 'never worked retail a day in my life' person it might be hard to pick out a worker from a customer. Or notice regulars
i call BS on the last one. self serve gas stations have been a thing in the US for more than 45 yrs. the only full serve stations i know of in the US, (or at least in my area), are BP stations and they charge an extra $1/gal for the service.
@@tonimagness6033 I'm in WA, there are a lot of people from OR who had never been out of state and have sat at pumps waiting for someone to pump their gas.
You can now pump your own gas in Oregon if it's a stand alone station in a county of less than 40,000 residents (yeah, that's rather idiotic). It's still illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey. Shouty American must have either been from Oregon or New Jersey. I've been pumping my own gas for decades. I also clean my own car windows and check my own oil and the air in my tires-air up my own tires, too.
How the hell do you hire a car? Unless there's someone driving it for you, you rent a car. You can't hire an inanimate object. You wouldn't say I'm going to hire a couple movies for the weekend.
If you’d pay attention then you know that they were in the U.K. and the OP is British so uses Standard British English in which hiring a car makes perfect grammatical sense. It’s also known as car hire in parts of Europe (the word hire comes from a German word). Only American English defines hire as employment (no clue why they feel the need to change the meaning of words already in use by hey). In SBE there is more than one meaning. Check the link if you feel the need for evidence even the Cambridge dictionary uses car hire as its example sentence. www.google.co.uk/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/hire
The music in the back ground is distracting. You were already the best on you tube at these stories and I love your voice but with this music in the back ground I don’t enjoy listening to you anymore.
As an American I can say for a fact that 99.9% of the gas stations here are self service with perhaps a few exceptions but nowhere near enough for someone to remotely think it's a regular thing so I have no idea what this woman was thinking.
She was from New Jersey
Nearly no place in the US fuels for you. I hear a few places in NJ might and Oregon did until a few years ago. But I'm a bit surprised an American woman was expecting that.
Had to be a Jersey girl. AFAIK all their stations cannot allow self serve and this sounds like an angry Yankee used to tight gun ownership laws
Damn Yankees
Yeah, even in the places that don't let you pump your own, most people (with brains, that is) realize it's not that way everywhere. When I worked at various gas stations, I frequently had people say, "I don't know how to pump my own gas. I'm from New Jersey (or Oregon)." Meaning they knew they were the special ones.
In NJ, they do have people to pump gas for you. Mandatory for some reason. It's also one of the few northern states that don't have specific incest laws.
@@beyusnow1693 So, it's like Oregon....
As a person familiar with blades ( military, medical, and hunting ) I am shocked that a mother was willing to let a six year old play with a set that could probably kill, butcher, cook and serve a 300 pound boar swine.
And, Pro Chef quality knives are expensive. And they are very sharp, and easily damaged.
I have been stationed overseas several times, and it's shocking how Americans can behave. I had no clue before seeing it for myself. It's one thing to be in a war-torn country where anyone at any time could attempt to kill you. However, it was always emphasized to us be careful, yet respectful. It is quite another thing when you are a "guest" in another country. We are "boots" in their homeland. What I observed was there are three types of Americans overseas.
One, respects and enjoys the people, the culture and the history. They will return home filled with many great memories.
The second is a schoolyard bully. They are arrogant and think they can do whatever they want, to whomever they want and without repercussions...because we are the big bad US. (They should be happy we're here and they're not talking German, Russian, Chinese...whatever. I got really tired of hearing that.) When they get into trouble, and they will, they think they have all the freedoms and rights of being back in the US with daddy's money and the family lawyer buying their way out of trouble. (It's quite embarrassing.)
The third is just angry at being away from home and refuse to learn anything, try anything, or experience anything. They venture off base once, make a mistake, get embarrassed and refuse to do it again, unless it's in a tank. They stay on base and drink away their once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. They go home angry.
I have seen the SA (Screaming American) for myself, many times. And yet, how do we treat "visitors" to our country?
Western countries are just filled with stupid arrogant people these days.
I’m born and raised in the US. And I Agree! It’s a shame how a lot of “us” act. It embarrasses me and I’m not even the one doing it. Land of the Free where the rich get richer (and worse mannered) and the poor get poorer.
@@jamieandrew-kromer8008 Also, the rich entitled jerks are the only ones that can afford to travel, and therefore misrepresent the rest of us who act like human beings instead of wannabe deities.
We pump our own gas in my state and the next state over and the state to that. Also, I'm an Anglophile so I frequently call it petrol and raise the boot and bonnet on my car. I can never understand the attitude of these people. It's really no bother to take a moment to help someone.
Having been on an overseas deployment, I have been embarassed at some fellow Americans proving that the "Ugly American Tourist" really does exist! And it is laughable when they try to claim their "constitutional rights" in a foreign country!
For that 1st story, I would have taken out the chef's knife, did a Zip on a cucumber and then grabbed the kids finger and asked him if he wanted me to show Mommy how well the knife works.
Do NOT mess with a chef's knives.
"Call your Boss, I want you Fired ! "
WRONG!! Find him yourself lady! Why would I want to go get my boss so you can complain and tell him you want him to fire me??
Another example of a person who only uses their head to separate their ears.
YourConscience
She's what, back in the Airforce, we called a "short between the headsets". 🤨
Let us know if the chef updates with the second story!
Now I’m curious for the other story of EM by the chef.
Agreed
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I need to know now
Yes i want to know as well
This literally took me 15 seconds: www.reddit.com/r/IDontWorkHereLady/comments/b7tl8z/you_know_what_youre_talking_about_so_you_must/
In the US, in my state, to get your gas pumped by an employee, there needs to be a handicap pump, and you need a handicap mirror hanger. In a station without a designated handicap pump, you need to ask the cashier. If you don't have a handicap tag, they will probably be just short of rude to you.
There are only a few states that require the employees to work the pumps, NJ is the only one that I know of.
Where does the lady live in the US that there is a gas station that an attendant comes out to fill the gas for you. I live on the east coast and ever since I was little all stations I ever been to were self serve.
@t pw They just changed it very recently. I think New Jersey is the last one.
@@garybacon659 - Oregon now lets people pump their own gas? Haven't been there in a year or so...
Gary Bacon Yeah. Here in New Jersey, they have someone pump your gas for you.
I was 34 years old when DH and I moved our family in 1988 from New Jersey to Kentucky. Pumping my own gas was kind of scary for the first several months. When I travel to visit family back home, I feel lazy having someone else fill up my car’s gas tank. I once forgot where I was, starting to get out of the car, and the attendant came over very quickly to ask me how much and what kind. Oops! He seemed a little nervous.
I did a job in NJ once, and I pulled into the gas station and went to fill my truck like I would anywhere else, and they flipped the fuck out, said it was "illegal" to pump your own gas in NJ. I had never heard of such a thing before. Never did another job in NJ.
"...sarcastic British cheers.."
" whoooaaayyy"
Brings tear to the eye, beautiful.
Still trying to understand how she didn't know about self service stations. Had to be from Oregon.
You are the only non robot voice reddit reader that I like, i love your voice
Who let's their child even come close to a knife.
Karen: I don't want your "pet-roll"! I want GAS!
Victim: *farts hard* :)
Karen: >:O
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍 Imagine if it had been Wario that did it!!!
@@christophersmith9237 Perfect lol
Okay, I'm an American, and about that last story, I have to ask how old that story is. The reason I ask, is because there haven't been full service gas pumps (where attendants pump gas for you) in over 20 years. The shouting American should have known that... what the hell (excuse my language) made her think that anyone was going to pump her petrol/gas in another company. Sounds like she was trying to take advantage of being a foreigner.
And please understand.... not all Americans are like her.
Get out in the world once in a while. While most of the US is self serve, there are states where you're not allowed to.
In the USA it's the same with the gas stations (you pump your own gas) ...Except, in New Jersey. It is actually against the law to pump your own gas in that one state. I guess they think that a "professional" is needed.
She must have been from New Jersey since that's the only state in the US that has attendants that pump the gas for you.
You are forgetting Oregon: "Oregon allows self-service gas stations in counties of less than 40,000 people but maintains prohibitions everywhere else in the state. A bill to allow gas stations in the Beaver State to designate a quarter of their pumps as self-service failed in 2019."
The petrol/gas lady was from either Oregon or New Jersey. Everywhere else in the US you're expected to pump your own gas.
I'm from Australia and gas is self serve
It's self served in America as well. Finding a place that will pump your gas for you in the U.S. is rare.
@@ryanwalters1682 I believe it's still illegal to self-serve gas in Oregon, and it was illegal until recently in New Jersey. Other than that, the only place I know where many stations have a staff member who will pump on request is Florida, where many residents are elderly and may have mobility issues or be easily confused in operating the pumps.
ally cat In Canada it depends. In cities most (but not all) stations are self serve. In smaller towns most (but not all) are full serve.
@@ryanwalters1682 I live in Texas and full serve gas stations went out in the late 1970's except in Oregon where state law required an attendant till the late 90's. I was a "gas jockey" back in the 70's when I was a teenager.
For a while, there was exactly one place in Australia which I knew of which still had driveway attendants who pumped fuel for you. That was at a little between-towns stop where inter-town buses often stop to allow the passengers to grab a bite to eat on the fairly long ride.
Some years ago, a particular bus service which used to stop there was replaced with another form of public transport and the place dropped the driveway service soon after, so it's now self-serve only, like every other place I know of.
New Jersey it's a state Law that service stations must pump gas there are no self-Service in New Jersey
I hear that there are some states in the US that require an attendant to pump gas while you wait, but that is not the norm here in the states. Certainly not in the South-Eastern part of the country.
I'm in New Zealand and the sense of entitlement is strong in Americans. Using the justice system as retribution is abhorrent! Threatening people's lively hood is disgusting just to make your ego whole is plan wrong!!
Not all Americans, just the few very loud and obnoxious ones that sadly have more money than the much more respectful and humble ones who barely have the time or money to travel two states over, let alone outside the country.
No you didn't fill your tank up and the pay. You have to put your card into the machine first. The machine will tell you how much money you are allowed to spend. Then you cant start filling up.
As an American I find it so unfair that often American’s who can afford international travel are unappreciative of the opportunity and experience, so ignorant of customs and terminology in even other English speaking countries. and are basically the last people I’d want representing Americans abroad.
(2:25) WTF is an activated almond?
I can only assume that Shouty American was one of the "'Real' Housewives of New Jersey". NJ is a small state, and the rest of us here know that if we go to Pennsylvania, New York, or Delaware (each only about a 2 hr drive from anywhere in the state), we have to pump our own gas. Did Shouty even know that she's supposed to drive on the left side of the street in the UK? How did she even get to the petrol station without crashing?
Sounds like "pet-roll" lady was from New Jersey. It ultimately depends on the accent. Only NJ and Oregon have full service laws in place in the states. Everyone else pumps their own damn gas.
The last one is not believable and is apparently just a slam against Americans. Almost all places here (U.S.) have gas that you pump yourself and pay at the pump, so it would be extremely unlikely that the mentioned lady would not know how to do this.
From what I've seen on here, the system in Russia for pumping fuel is seriously fucked up. I'm assuming that it's to prevent 'pump and dash'. It appears that you choose a pump, put the nozzle in the filler, lock the trigger then go to pay for the amount you want. By the time you get back to your vehicle the pump should have delivered the required quantity.
Unfortunately this results in dummies trying to drive off with the pump still running or just with the nozzle still in the filler pipe. At best the nozzle detaches from the hose. Older pumps don't do this, so the hose detaches from the pump. The oldest don't detach at all and the pump body is pulled over with tens of gallons of fuel being sprayed everywhere. At worst (and it *does* happen) the fuel catches fire and the whole station burns to the ground.
In the United States, with the exception of about two or three states, you pump your own gas. Though we don't use the term most of us understand petrol is gasoline.
Oregon doesn't let you pump your own gas in the USA, though I think there's a law proposed to get rid of that.
Shouty Lady must be from NJ, where it is wrong to pump your own gas, and has people to pump your gas for you while you sit in your car.
Holy C###, feel so sorry for the victims confronted by Karens"", glad I do not live in the USA or work in retail.
Hello, i have only just found your channel but am binge watching. Its absolutely hilarious and here in the UK we have a theory that "Karens", as you so delightfully name them are what we always called the " Jobsworth, i.e. ( more than my job's worth to do anything to help ). My personnel theory is that Cro -Magnon Man , never actually died out but just continued to interbreed every so often to keep their lineage going. We all know them when we meet them. Brilliant, have subscribed as well.
grabs a bag full of knives.......smart move.
Karen, is never wrong. : 0
The guy in The last story hired a car? I wonder what the cars salary was and if it got any benefits. You rent inanimate objects, you do not hire them.
That first story is absolute fantasy.
So is the last. Americans may be arrogant about a lot of things, but they do know how to fill their own fuel tanks (petrol or gas or diesel or whatever you want to call it) and aren't so stupid as to not know what a que is and how to get in one. Sorry, he lost me at "tell those other cars to get out of my way."
Neither are fantasy. Met waaay to many women who do not know how to pump gas. Many from NYC. They never had a car ever, then decide to rent a car in Europe. I have seen it happen many a time.
As for the Chef part, Seen that too. Usually when you are doing Carving's for banquets, so you bring a small knife roll with a dozen knives. You tend to have Karen's in those circles. It seems Both Balloceni and Mermur A haven't been around the world much.
People are really stupid at times, regardless of country of origin.
@@silverthorngoodtree5533 actually, I have. And as a woman, yes, I've always pumped my own gas. No matter which side of the road I am obliged to drive on.
How do I find the first stoires on reddit want to hear more from him
stephennine99 you have to find it in r/idontworkherelady
the chef should have called the police.
At 6:28 to 6:32; "But that's an entirely different story" ;-D
I'm an American and that kind of crap in the last story should be embarrassing for all Americans.
America has been self-serve only the last 40yrs or more or at least in the southern states anyway.
i wonder how successful she was at driving on the opposite side of the road?.
Second story makes no sense, virtually no gas stations in the USA have full service gas attendants
In Oregon at least, all gas stations have an attendant to pump your gas for you because the law doesn't allow for self-serve (they recently changed the law for some very rural gas stations) of gasoline. As a native Oregonian, I SINCERELY hope that crazy @$$hat is NOT from my state though!
@@eileene.5870 true
But most Oregon residents are aware virtually no other state has this and are actively working to kill it in Oregon
@@lujlp As of a few days ago, Oregon decided we can fill up all by ourselves. Thanks, Covid-19.
Might have been from NJ. That''s the only place I've ever seen gas station attendants.
Loved the "welcome to the U.K." 😜👍
It's not like that anymore At least where I live.
A little BS in the last story, I think. She just might have got a free sandwich, but there's no way she would have been given a free tank of petrol when it wasn't anything to do with the filling station.
I can relate to the 1st story.
While the vast majority of gasoline/petrol stations in the US are self-serve you can still find a few stations that have both and in a handful of states employee service is not only REQUIRED but the law. I leave it to doubters to look it up, Think west coast.
Try Jersey
I love you voice it sounds like Seth Roghan
Wait! What’s the recipe for the fluffiest pancakes ever! 🙏
Why do entitled people think personal equipment is cheap equipment.
Where can I submit an own experience of the sort?
Weird that you can pump your fuel first, then pay at the pump seems a high theft risk. Pay at pump requires your payment first. Something's fishy about this story.
That's how it's done in Scandinavian countries: pull in, fill up, go pay at the counter/card terminal by the pump.
Up until the late 90's- early 2000's it was still possible to pump your gas then go inside to pay. But this story is definitely not that old.
Yep did seem they got it backwards, as pay at pump pre allocates/reserves/hold £100 from the card without actually taking it (not actually sure how it does it) , you can't pay at pump after filling up you have to put your card in first use chip and pin and then you take the card out and then fill upto £100 and transaction is completed once you finish filling (if you fueled up £40 then it only takes £40 from card and then the other £60 hold is released)
They are setup this way so £100 can always be debited from he card, if £100 can't be held it won't activate the pump and fraud attempt prevented (they likely just fall back to just fuel up and drive off to pay at kiosk option)
the USA way is bonkers as they still use magswipe at pump (easy fraud) and you pay afterwards at pay at pump (again another easy fraud) in usa so no guarantee of payment as they might just drive off with fake number plates (really unsure why they haven't changed all pay at pumps in usa to chip and pin that would reduce pay at pump drive offs to near zero)
Yeah...... Here in the US we dont pay people to fill our gas tanks. Maybe it was a think the past but as far as i know that doesn't exist today.
Edit: also no wonder other country's hate americans visiting them. Most of us are entitled brats. While i know that this certainly doesnt make up for anything they do, I'm sincerely sorry for the awful behavior these people bring to your country's.
And I hope you all have a wonderful day! You're all lovely people and if anyone tries to say otherwise then they are the foolish ones who's sight is blocked by anger and hatred for the world around them. Have a wonderful day/night!!
Are there still places that fill for you? It wasn't a thing when I was a kid
10.45 Cire hire lmao
I mostly lurk here, but I wanted to say that I enjoy your voice and your content.
I'm addicted to these type of videos, but have noticed a lot of repeats across totally different channel names. Anyone know why?
Because the channels aren't all associated with each other, they just pull posts from reddit.
I've found repeats on every channel, they literally retell the same stories every couple of months
www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/b85ibp/em_wants_her_steaks_extra_well_done_fine/
Theres the continuation from the first story. This literally took me 32 seconds to find.
I like these stories and would like to know how I can send one of mine I only have one to tell
I don't know if it's because I have other channels that I'm subscribed to also but I definitely heard both of these stories before.
I'll post the same thing here that I did there. We apologize for exporting a Karen from the US. They are a particularly nasty breed here. You must have gotten one specifically from New Jersey or Oregon. The only two states in the in the country that use full service stations for some unknown stupid reason...
All of them post the same stories. I've heard the one with the shouty American before, but not the first one. My strategy is to subscribe to the ones with the nicest voices and delivery, and just put up with it if they end up repeating ones I've heard already. And I join with your apology for the shouty American. I'm an American, too, and living in the UK, so I try to compensate for our Karens (and Chads) by being as nice as possible to everyone I meet here. :-) Oh, and the lady was probably from Oregon, where it is against the law for you to pump your own gas.
@@cyberherbalist Red does have decent voice and his narrating pace is on point.
Oklahoma has some full service stations... as I lived in Idabell Oklahoma and never got to pump my own gas until I moved to Maryland and was spoiled and had to learn to do it myself lol
Not entirely a stupid reason. Self-serve is relatively new, gaining popularity after the "oil crisis" of the 1970s. The dinosaur pumps used back then lacked safety features found on pumps put in later self-serve stations, so the old full-service stations did not allow customers to pump their own for liability reasons. Seriously, can you imagine thousands of Karens using those old pumps? The station lots would have constantly been awash in pools of gas, getting into the groundwater and going up in giant balls of flame. The carnage would have been horrendous. I guess places like Oregon are just slow to adapt to changing technology.
What’s a Christmas sandwich?
i'm intrigued, what's in a christmas sandwich? sounds tasty 😊 google it later 😅
Yea! first.
I'm American and I'm 51, and I think I've only had somebody who pumps the gas for you at a station a few times in my life. At least 95% of the time you pump your own gas. And nowadays, most people just use a card at the pump to pay so this is not an accurate depiction of how American gas stations work.
Well, it is accurate about the ones in states where its apparently illegal for you to pump your own gas. I will probably never understand the thinking of those people. Same with smoking near a gas pump. Hell, I could throw a lit match into a bucket of gasoline and nothing would happen. If a gas station explodes because of someone lighting up a cigarette, then the cause would be a leak from the gas pump. Gasoline only explodes when its dispersed into the air in fine droplets. Also called gasoline vapor.
I'm old enough to remember that gas stations in the US always pumped the gas for you. And then cleaned your windows, checked your oil, and acted like they worked at a "Service Station". This was back in the 50s and 60s. Not sure when that all went away. Oregon had a law that forbade people from pumping their own gas and required training for the people who did it for you. I think as a way of decreasing unemployment. Maybe. Someone told me that Oregon has relaxed this law now.
@@cyberherbalist I could never imagine having someone else pumping gas into my own car. Like, what if they accidentally pump gas into my diesel? Thats just a lawsuit waiting to happen.
@@MrShadow1617 The old gas pumps did not have safety features like automatic shutoffs. It was very easy to pump gas directly onto the pavement or overflow a tank while filling it, creating a spreading pool of gas that would vaporize and create a serious vapor/explosion hazard, not to mention pollution hazard.
@@brettmiddleton7949 Well, I guess I learned something today. Also, theres one more thing. Usually, when the pump auto shut off engages, the tank is usually not completely full. Usually I got in an extra 4-5l more fuel before the tank was actually full.
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The more I read of these stories (and to be honest I may stop bothering soon) the less I believe them. I find it really hard to believe that there are people so stupidly, pointlessly, psychotically self-absorbed and entitled that they would behave in such a way.
Work retail and you'll see them, trust me. In my area we have some woman driving a Masarati that parks where the gridlines cross( taking up four spaces), in pick up spaces( where people do the order online and pick it up at the store) and even in the cart corrals with half the car sticking out into the travel lanes. Only thing she hasn't done is park in a handicap spot or the firelane. All the retail establishments are just waiting to catch that car in a handicap spot and have it towed.
We Americans can be such an embarrassment in other countries sometimes. I'd like to say that NOT ALL Americans are like that. Some of us actually adapt to the norms of the countries we visit. Glad people post these stories in the hopes that others can learn how NOT to behave/act. xD
6:50 alot of places managers and some employees dress in casual clothes or non uniform outfits... So its not too shocking.... I work where black polo and black slacks are the uniform even for manager.. In our (SOP.. Store operations procedures)
Our manager rarley wears anything close to black... I usually wear skinny jeans and a sweater as its usually on the colder side in the store. Or if no sweater anything i pull out of my closet that's got some black on it... Usually patterns. And that's most stores were i live
So if your a 'never worked retail a day in my life' person it might be hard to pick out a worker from a customer. Or notice regulars
i call BS on the last one. self serve gas stations have been a thing in
the US for more than 45 yrs. the only full serve stations i know of in
the US, (or at least in my area), are BP stations and they charge an
extra $1/gal for the service.
She's from Oregon. By state law, all gas stations in Oregon are full service and you can't pump your own gas.
I agree. Even while growing up in Oregon where you are not allowed to pump your own gas, I was very aware that it was not the norm. Definite bs.
@@tonimagness6033 I'm in WA, there are a lot of people from OR who had never been out of state and have sat at pumps waiting for someone to pump their gas.
You can now pump your own gas in Oregon if it's a stand alone station in a county of less than 40,000 residents (yeah, that's rather idiotic). It's still illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey. Shouty American must have either been from Oregon or New Jersey. I've been pumping my own gas for decades. I also clean my own car windows and check my own oil and the air in my tires-air up my own tires, too.
@@richdiddens4059 where in the story did it say what state she was from? i looked again and it wasn't mentioned.
The SA bi+++ should have been towed.
look ah here Teletubby, I don't work here
If you don't watch your kids then who will !!!
well not sure what part of the world that lady in the last story was from but i can garentee that it wasnt in ohio which is 1 of 50 states
Darn I really wanted to see if the guy posted a follow up but you didn't link to the stories in the description
Where’s the second story about entitled mom & child?
Rewatching 😉
"Welcome to the United Kingdom, you blockheaded Yank!"
I thought there was a sequel to the first story but I can’t find it...?
6:28 where can I find part 2 pls.
Don't engage crazy people.
What is a Christmas sandwich?
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How the hell do you hire a car? Unless there's someone driving it for you, you rent a car. You can't hire an inanimate object. You wouldn't say I'm going to hire a couple movies for the weekend.
If you’d pay attention then you know that they were in the U.K. and the OP is British so uses Standard British English in which hiring a car makes perfect grammatical sense. It’s also known as car hire in parts of Europe (the word hire comes from a German word).
Only American English defines hire as employment (no clue why they feel the need to change the meaning of words already in use by hey). In SBE there is more than one meaning. Check the link if you feel the need for evidence even the Cambridge dictionary uses car hire as its example sentence.
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/hire
How the Hell do you not know that there are different dialects of English and the rest of us make fun of your dialect too?
What state does she come from? Not California, people pump their own gas here!
*Q: What do Brits in the U.K. call "Karens"?*
*A: Americans*
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The music in the back ground is distracting. You were already the best on you tube at these stories and I love your voice but with this music in the back ground I don’t enjoy listening to you anymore.
I'm sorry you're a shifty parent
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