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Quoted from arcademojo:Spent a month camping, hiking and traveling around El Paso/Big Ben area. I was shocked at how nice people were. My buddy and I would be out ridding our bikes and people would invite us to come sit on there porch and drink lemonade. This was in the late 90's though. Hopefully it hasn't changed.
I think you misplaced a "d".
Quoted from Alan_L:I was visiting a lifelong Texan in Austin and we went out to a bar. We both ordered beer. Because the bartender heard his accent, he gave my friend just a bottle, and when he heard my "Yankee" accent, he gave me a bottle and a glass.
My friend said, "If you touch that glass, I'll kill you." For the second round the bartender took my glass away.
Funny. I was gonna say, before you go into any bar, lose that Yankee accent!
Quoted from Trekkie1978:We have a saying here...last one to leave, please turn off the lights.
If it weren’t for my business, I’d be down in Texas or Florida.
Be nice to go to a place where the politicians don’t view me as an ATM machine for themselves.
They'll get to you everywhere eventually.
Quoted from Trekkie1978:Live in NJ for a year...you’ll see exactly what I mean.
NJ? I have it worse. In in NY, and in the highest taxed county at that.
I used to work in NJ a lot, and did much of my shopping there. Until the higher gas tax was added, I'd always get gas there too. The gas is still way cheaper down there in many places than it is up by me.
And...no stupid five cent deposit on every beer can!
Quoted from Dent00:Strange thing about gas in New Jersey... There is a law that you are not allowed to pump your own gas. Attendants can only operate most of the pumps and they carry a card that allows them to operate the gas pump. Most of them appear to be from India or somewhere similar to that. I had no idea, especially the 1st time. I thought the guy was begging for money or something, but he just wanted to pump my gas. I just cannot understand why people would want that in New Jersey. I carry my own luggage, drive my own truck, pump my own gas and I am fully grown... I don't need some guy I have never seen pumping my gas. But I did allow it, because that is the law in New Jersey...
Yeah, that's one thing I always disliked about getting gas in NJ.
Sometimes I'd pump it myself anyway, but then they started using that access card. Sometimes I still stop the pump myself and drive off if I'm using my credit card.
Quoted from fosaisu:Another strange thing about NJ, always cheapest (or close to cheapest) gas prices on the east coast. Whatever else they’re taxing, it’s not the gas.
It's gone up considerably though in the last few years due to a big gas tax increase. The prices are much more variable there now than they use to be. Some places have prices just as high as in upstate NY,
and the prices on the GSP and NJTPK are no bargain.
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