Yet another reason to ride to work: You don't have to restrain yourself from thoughts of violence at the talking gas pump

Target in yellow, left of the pump handle.
For the record, I'm not serious. Yet.

When I stop to get gas for the cars or motorcycle, I expect to be left alone unless there is something critical to say (such as "hey, the idiot at the pump next to yours is lighting a cigarette"). I don't expect some huckster to confront me and start yammering in my face while I'm a captive audience pumping fuel into the tank. Therefore, I've about had it with the talking gas pumps. Especially since most of the people filling up around here (case in point, last night at the "Conoco Hill" Shell Station) are so used to constant background babble that they don't hit the mute button on their own yacking gas pump even if I silence mine in a legal, non-violent fashion. So you end up with a cacophony of babbling, intrusive, annoying gas pumps. Where's my 357 magnum when I need it? Do these oil companies have no shame? Oh...never mind...

In the fine tradition of Mort Walker...the urge to kill.
I changed the title of this post since these days, 
too many people don't know the boundaries
between thought vs. act

Ride the bike and let the gas pump yack to someone else. Its better for your health and definitely better than getting a knock on the door from Chief Torpy. Come to think of it, maybe this is a secret liberal plot to get people to buy less gas and thereby reduce global warming. Sure will work for me.




To put it more constructively:
Talking gas pumps and sacred silence
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
 "Silence Machine" Zaps Unwanted Noise