One of the bloggy/op-ed/think pieces on Salon today (which I'm not linking to cos I think they make you sit thru adware to get to the content even when you link and who needs that...) was about how NJ gas stations and how self-service gas is against state law. When we were driving back from SI earlier this month, we stopped for gas in Jersey, just before getting on the turnpike. And the station was self-serve. Or at least was allowing self serve. I pulled in and saw several other drivers pumping their own gas, so I got out and did the same. Assuming that, I dunno, hell had frozen over and they'd changed the law. Come to find out that, now, it's still against state law. So apparently the folks running this station didn't get the memo. Or else they're a bunch of crazed socialist anarchist full-service denialists. The other weird thing was that while the station had big signs for one of the major oilcos (don't remember which one exactly... maybe Citgo), when you actually got to the pumps, they all had signs saying "unbranded" or something like that. So I have no idea what weird kinda brand X petrol I put in my car (soylent gas?). But it got us home on 1 tank. Plus I had the unique experience of pumping my own gas in Jersey.

Apropos of nothing in particular (and via Scalzi), Peanuts, Bukowski-style.