(However, none of this changes the well-established fact that this country’s worst urban drivers, combined with the worst traffic planning and signage, are to be found in Boston.)

First and foremost, nearly all NJ drivers have some kind of phobia against using a turn signal switch.

Second, when I worked for the Reedman car dealership in Langhorne, PA (which was once the largest single-location auto dealership on earth with 150 acres and 5,000 cars) in the mid-1990s, we had two traffic circles on the property at either end of a private bridge which was built to PennDOT specifications, over PA 213, a four-lane highway. I saw at least two NJ drivers go around the circles the wrong way - NJ is known as the capital of the traffic circle!

Third, during the short period where NJ used validation stickers on their license plates, there were so many dumb drivers who put both stickers on their rear plate! The stickers were meant to be put on both plates. Fortunately for PA drivers, PA got rid of the front plate in 1952.

Getting back to the full-serve gas pumps in NJ, I have also heard that the reason Trenton won’t legalize self-serve is because of the “fire hazard”. They are afraid some clown will light up when they are pumping their own gas. Look at the attendants at many NJ gas stations - they look like a sleeper cell of al-Qaida!

I prefer the Sikh Indians (the ones with the turbans, and they are monotheistic) who operate the Sunoco on US 130 South in Burlington. Sikhs are very nice people.

I’ll also go to Wawa as well - that’s a convenience store chain based in the Philly area.

Here in PA, full-serve (if you can find it) costs about 40 cents more per gallon than self-serve.

I don’t think I have ever seen anyone attempt to pump gas with the tank on the far side of the car, ever. I too live in Jersey and despise being out of state where I have to pump my own gas. If it isn’t going to be less money I see no point in doing it myself.

I thought the joke in this one was kind of obvious.

Count Shrimpula, your post #41 is offensive to people with PhDs from Harvard!!

Curses, stepped in it again!

Charlie Chaplin’s theory on comedy was that you show a banana peel on the sidewalk, then show a well dressed overweight woman walking towards it. Cut back and forth between the woman and the banana, zoom in on the peel, zoom in on the foot, back and forth, preparing the audience for the slip and fall. Then have the woman step around the peel and fall down an open manhole. Therefore, if dad picked up the nozzle and the gas pump exploded, that would be comedy.