What Will They Think Of Next?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jeff in Korea at 4:33 pm on Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Message from a Korean friend about a trip to Carribean Bay water park explaining this picture:

Look at this!!! I have never seen anything like this!
Cool! It’s a self-service gas pump.
You actually put the gas in by yourself and pay for it right there at the pump.
It’s even a little bit cheaper.
Isn’t that amazing???

Ummm.. yeah.. uhh.. awesome…Koreans think of everything! That might catch on in America soon!
Just wait until the first time is 25 below Zero in the middle of a white-out blizzard and they have to pump their own gas while the dropout loser laughs at you from inside the warm, dry store because your bare hand has frozen to the pump and you have to scrape ice out of the credit card slot. THEN they will yearn for the good old days of full service stations.

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Comment by Joel

13 September 2005 @ 7:32 pm

Don’t forget about the joys of prepay gas in States. You have to go in the store, pay, then go out and pump, and then go back and get change if there is any. That is one thing I DON’T miss about the states. I love tossing my key to the attendant and kicking back in my car. It’s the one time a week where I feel like someone is actually serving me.

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Comment by Jason

14 September 2005 @ 2:36 am

awwww no more free cans of coffee and tissues!

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Comment by 74

15 September 2005 @ 7:33 am

Jeff, here in Oregon there is NO pump your own gas (except at certain fleet filling stations.) It’s great during the winter time. Unfortunately, whenever I drive in another state I have to re-educate myself with the latest self-pump technology.

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Comment by washington

15 September 2005 @ 7:52 pm

They have had those in washington.

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Comment by Scott-in-Japan

19 September 2005 @ 5:21 pm

You CAN’T pump your own gas in Oregon, not even for your motorcycle.

I was ready to move out of state until I found a station with Nazis…er, attendants, who were cool with the notion of No One Touches My Bike.

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Comment by Brian

22 September 2005 @ 5:59 am

Hey Jeff, another for your “black box” thesis: a foreign guy who graduated from the Yonsei Korean program who is now enrolled in a Korean language program for training teachers of Korean was asked during class (in English!) if he could speak Korean.

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=44942&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

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Comment by Vincent

3 October 2005 @ 7:12 am

Tell your Korean friend it isn’t exactly a Korean invention. ;)

In Malaysia, it was self-paying at the pump forwhile… until they uncovered large amounts of credit card fraud and such. I’m sure its like that in manu other parts of the world too. :P

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Comment by Jeff in Korea

3 October 2005 @ 9:36 am

Yes. I know. I was being witty and sarcastic. We have been pumping our own gas in the US since the 1970’s.

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Comment by jorgen

4 October 2005 @ 11:19 pm

Hi guys,
any of you know the Bellagio club in itaewon? Any opinions on it?

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Comment by Dezso

13 October 2005 @ 2:25 am

Also, it is a trick the awful Frenchmen are using for a while. You can thus refill day and night. Only, you need a bank card with a chip to use it.

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