A new trend among gas stations has been to install televisions that play advertisements. Makes sense. You’re stuck standing there while the gas pours into your tank at a tauntingly slow place. You’re a trapped audience! I just find it amusing, and a little insulting, that this trend is emerging at a time when the gas prices are skyrocketing.
When I’m blowing more than $30 on a mere half a tank of gas, I totally want to spend money. I don’t know about you guys.
6 Comments
July 10, 2008 at 2:47 pm
I can see why they’re doing it, but the timing is just off. Filing up my tank isn’t where I think about new purchases. It’s where I cry.
July 10, 2008 at 2:56 pm
the best was i was in a bathroom at a hotel downtown a while ago and they had teevee screens built into the mirrors. it was CRAZY! i of course…was fascinated.
July 10, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Wow, I totally didn’t know that. The perks of not having a car…
July 10, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Wow I have not seen that yet. Watch me get too engrossed by the advertisement and spill gas on me. Ew. more money down the drain.
July 11, 2008 at 5:11 am
Oh yuck. Way to rub in the fact that you have no money!
Filling my car (a medium sized sedan) costs $100.00 Australian. It’s extortion!!!!!
I feel ya.
July 12, 2008 at 8:16 am
I prefer the places where they play awesome music. That way I can pass the time by dancing
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