So I'm filling up my car with gas in Venice, CA today...

[bijou]

Kutjara  (1000+ posts)       Sat Mar-08-08 09:45 PM
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So I'm filling up my car with gas in Venice, CA today...
 ...and this guy rolls up in a house-sized SUV and stops at the other side of the pump from me. As he's removing the nozzle, he looks over and says "Heh, heh. Guess we can thank Hugo Chavez for this shit, huh?" I was preoccupied so I didn't immediately get what he was saying. "Sorry, what?" I replied. "The price of gas. Guess we can thank Hugo Chavez for driving the price of gas through the roof," he clarified. I was stunned by this overt example of neocon thickheadedness, so it took me a second before I said, "I'm saving my thanks for the Chimpanzee people like you put in the White House. Twice. If you want to know why oil prices are through the roof and the economy's in the toilet, look no further than the criminals in DC and the boardroom of ExxonMobil." "Bullshit," he responded, "it's the ******* commies who're trying to destroy America, same as always." I was about to drive away by this point, so I said, "they don't need to waste their energy. We're doing a great job of that all on our own. Enjoy your $100 tank!"

Honestly, how can someone like this pass the border checks and get into Venice? I thought there were rules.
 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7549582

Error #1, starting your bouncy tale with 'So' it makes them too easy to spot. 

[Carl]

They get lamer by the day.

I live in a pretty small world out in the middle of nothing to be fair about it but just can`t picture any part of a "conversation" like this happening.

[ScubaGuy]

Kutjara  (1000+ posts)       Sat Mar-08-08 09:45 PM
Original message
So I'm filling up my car with gas in Venice, CA today...
 ...and this guy rolls up in a house-sized SUV and stops at the other side of the pump from me. As he's removing the nozzle, he looks over and says "Heh, heh. Guess we can thank Hugo Chavez for this shit, huh?" I was preoccupied so I didn't immediately get what he was saying. "Sorry, what?" I replied. "The price of gas. Guess we can thank Hugo Chavez for driving the price of gas through the roof," he clarified. I was stunned by this overt example of neocon thickheadedness, so it took me a second before I said, "I'm saving my thanks for the Chimpanzee people like you put in the White House. Twice. If you want to know why oil prices are through the roof and the economy's in the toilet, look no further than the criminals in DC and the boardroom of ExxonMobil." "Bullshit," he responded, "it's the damn commies who're trying to destroy America, same as always." I was about to drive away by this point, so I said, "they don't need to waste their energy. We're doing a great job of that all on our own. Enjoy your $100 tank!"

Honestly, how can someone like this pass the border checks and get into Venice? I thought there were rules.
 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7549582

Error #1, starting your bouncy tale with 'So' it makes them too easy to spot. 

That damn old evil Exxon.  I wonder if any of the DUmmies can explain why Citgo gas is usually prices the same as Exxon and Shell and Amoco and .....

[Bondai]

Boing,boing,boing.......They aren't even trying anymore...

[Attero Dominatus]

1 bong. They do not even try anymore.

[Freeper]

theredpen  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-08-08 10:52 PM
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15. Another tale of Houston turnabout
   
Same friend as the Saab story from above.

Whenever my friend is waiting line with another friend somewhere in Houston, he'll start a really load conversation, "So, can you believe people voted for Bush twice? I mean, how stupid are these people? He lied us into a war and then he couldn't even run it successfully, he's screwed up the economy and he's made our country the joke of the world."

Invariably, some wingnut will chime in with a counterpoint and he'll cut them off with, "Excuse me, but this is a private conversation!"

Works every time.

 

I think this guy may have been in GA recently I was waiting in line and a couple of guys were yammering on about how bad * is and war for oil blah blah blah I just stood there and laughed to myself.

[Airwolf]

Zero credit. Even some of the news people have said tha tHugos jacking around down there has driven the prices up. Makes me wonder who their script writers are sometimes.

[Freeper]

theredpen  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-08-08 11:04 PM
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17. Fair enough...
   
But don't forget that the ready access to handguns thing works both ways.

Also, when you're waiting in line at the bank, it would be a great victory to get the wingnut to draw a weapon. The wingnut would... end badly.

 

You would piss your pants if the "wingnut" even hinted he had a gun.

[Chris_]

The bouncy fell flat, pfffft.

[PatriotGame]

So I'm sitting on my fat Cheeto's engorged ass smoking a fat spliff today in Venice, CA and had a vision...

fixed...

[LadyLiberty]

You also know it's a bouncy when the DUmmie is the one who is polite.

They only credible word from this DUmmie's mouth was  when he said "bullshit".

[Miss Mia]

Maybe it's just me, but when I'm at the gas station filling up, I'm actually just watching the pump and I never talk to anyone else out there. 

[PatriotGame]

Maybe it's just me, but when I'm at the gas station filling up, I'm actually just watching the pump and I never talk to anyone else out there. 

I live in Oregon and by state law we cannot pump our own gas.
Usually when the tank is filling I just sit there, staring out the windshield thinking "did I leave the iron on?"

[Chris_]

Maybe it's just me, but when I'm at the gas station filling up, I'm actually just watching the pump and I never talk to anyone else out there. 

I live in Oregon and by state law we cannot pump our own gas.
Usually when the tank is filling I just sit there, staring out the windshield thinking "did I leave the iron on?"

I listen to the radio.   

[Lauri]

i get out, swipe my debit card, put the nozzle in the tank and go sit back in my house sized SUV with the air conditioning on and listen to my Ipod, talk on my cell phone and think about where I'm going shopping next. 


on edit; i go back and sit in my house sized SUV in order not to run into the moonbats who might start spontaneously screaming at the pumps and people in general. living in seattle, the odds of this happening are much higher.. and i just dont want to chance it. 

although, i'd like to see it happen sometime.. 

[Chris_]

So, I'm at the gas station filling up my truck. I've got "God Bless America" and "Proud Parent of a US Marine" bumper stickers on it when this moonbat pulls up behind me. I know it's a moonbat because there's an "I brake for fairies" (I didn't ask what kind) license plate frame. Anyway, this fat, middle-aged woman with the greasiest, stringy long hair I've ever seen gets out, starts pointing to my bumper stickers and spewing some angry rhetoric. I rolled down my window and said, "Hon, you're just not worth the oxygen, just go make up a fantasy about our encounter, okay?"

Cindie

[Texacon]

Maybe it's just me, but when I'm at the gas station filling up, I'm actually just watching the pump and I never talk to anyone else out there. 

I live in Oregon and by state law we cannot pump our own gas.
Usually when the tank is filling I just sit there, staring out the windshield thinking "did I leave the iron on?"

Doesn't that just piss you off?  The states of Oregon and New Jersey feel their citizens are too dumb to pump their own gas .... Or is there another reason they give.

When I was working in New Jersey it totally blew me away when I got out of my truck to pump my gas and they wouldn't let me.

KC

[Chris_]

Even if it isn't a bouncy (it is), it is funny that the "house sized SUV" owner can AFFORD his $100 tank.

The OP probably keeps his 1984 Yugo filled up by selling recycled newspapers from the garbage.