But I'm From Oregon...

[drivebythinker]

I'd forgotten about this dandy story of my mom's until just now.

BG: I'm sure we all know Oregon is tax exempt for sales in the state and surrounding states. My mom worked in a candy store in Colorado. Pull out your atlas we're about to have a lesson in geography.

Mm: My mom
SC: Entitled because she lives in Oregon

SC brings up several bags of candy and puts them on the counter. Mm rings them up and gives her the total.

SC: That total is wrong. I'm from Oregon.

Mm: That's nice. The total is $x

SC: That's wrong I'm from Oregon.

Mm: I'm sorry, I don't know what that has to do with your total.

SC: I'm from Oregon. I'm tax exempt.

Mm: But you're in Colorado your tax exempt status doesn't apply here.

SC: I'm tax exempt in all states that surround Oregon.

Mm: Right. But you're in Colorado. Your tax exemption isn't applicable here.

SC: *whines* But I'm from Oregon.

Mm: I realize that, which is why in Oregon you would pay $y but here you pay $x. That'll be $x.

SC: pays and leaves looking disgruntled.


I never knew people considered Colorado to be one of Oregon's surrounding states. Learn something new everyday I guess.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Betcha that moron also expects other people to pump her gas for her, since you can't do it yourself in Orygun.

[Andara Bledin]

Wow. You have to go through two states before you get to Colorado from Oregon.

What an ignoramus.

^-.-^

[LadyAndreca]

Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh

Betcha that moron also expects other people to pump her gas for her, since you can't do it yourself in Orygun.

You can't do it in NJ, either, which made for a very irritating moment when I went on a ski trip to VT. We got to a gas station and NO ONE KNEW HOW TO PUMP GAS. Except me, because I learned to drive in AL and Dad wouldn't teach me to drive until I could pump gas/change a tire/check fluids.

I made the driver get his ass out of the car and learn, because I was NOT going to be the only person getting out of HIS car in snowy freezing weather. He was not happy with me.

[Pixilated]

Quoth Andara Bledin

Wow. You have to go through two states before you get to Colorado from Oregon.

What an ignoramus.

^-.-^

Apparently she slept through that part of the trip ...

[Sonoma]

Let me apologize for the ignoramus, on behalf of the Oregonians who appreciate having sales tax waived, but do not expect it.

If I knew who the idjit was, I'd reach into one of our rivers & grab a salmon to smack her with.

Let me also add, I do know how to pump my own gas, and willingly do it when we travel to California, Washington, Nevada, and British Columbia.

[bhskittykatt]

I have to deal with people from Oregon pulling this. We're in Washington, but at the motel you're paying a hospitality tax and not a sales tax. So sorry, no exemptions. (And Oregon DOES have a hospitality tax...at least Salem, OR does!) Some people throw a big stink about it.

It was so funny when Hubs moved up here. He's from Cali, by way of Oregon. He was all "I used to live in Cali before I moved to Oregon. I do know how to pump gas, you know!" Cue five minutes of him staring at the pump before making me get out of the car to help him! His argument afterward was that he never actually was old enough to pump gas when he lived in Cali....yeah, keep them excuses coming, honey! (He's so adorable!)

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I taught myself to pump gas during my single-car, single-driver move from NJ to FL...good thing it wasn't difficult, I didn't even have to call anyone

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

The thing that gets me about pumping gas is that no one EVER taught me how to do it.

Yet somehow I managed to figure it out the first time up at bat.

The instructions of the pump are pretty straight forward. Swipe card, remove nozzle for grade desired (or remove nozzle and push the button for desired grade) and pump fuel.

Now the instructions on the pump stop there. But it's not that hard to figure out that you open the fuel door, unscrew the cap, insert nozzle into hole and squeeze trigger.

It's not all that dissimilar to filling a water bottle with a garden hose.

[Merriweather]

Quoth Sonoma

Let me apologize for the ignoramus, on behalf of the Oregonians who appreciate having sales tax waived, but do not expect it.

If I knew who the idjit was, I'd reach into one of our rivers & grab a salmon to smack her with.

Let me also add, I do know how to pump my own gas, and willingly do it when we travel to California, Washington, Nevada, and British Columbia.

Love the salmon

Yes, please don't think all Oregonians are like the SC - we do try to keep those type out, but they do sneak in now and then.