ProfBooty
Veteran Member
OK, new one....
Custer, SD in the heart of the beautiful Black Hills. I pull into a busy Exxon station, all the gas pumps have a line waiting to use them. I snicker as I pull around to the side where the vacant diesel pump is and begin the familiar insert additive, start filling, check-oil-and-wash-windshield-while-tank-is-filling ritual. Not too long before one of the attendants that's smoking in front of the station comes over and says, "I hope that car's diesel". I was expecting this since I had out-of-state plates so he probably figured I was some dumb tourist. Too tired from hiking to feel much like playing with him I respond, "yep, it is" and he goes back about his business. All this time, there's been a car of high school kids up by the front of the station that had glanced over a few times probably giggling amongst themselves at this particular 'dumb tourist'. Just as I'm doing the venting thing, they leave and as they turn onto the highway, I hear one of them shout, "you dumb $hit, you filled up with diesel!". Also expecting something like this I shouted back, "it IS a diesel, blow me!!" I don't think they heard me but all the people at the pumps filling their SUV's with gas certainly did and gave me the cows-in-the-pasture stare. It was pretty amusing. The attendant overheard all this and got a good laugh out of it. He said they were locals and would probably be back to laugh at me and he'd point out the error of their ways.
As a side note, the reason I was in the Black Hills was for a Toyota Land Cruiser 4x4 event. There was a couple there that had found a way to import mid-80's Land Cruiser BJ70's with the 3.4L naturally aspirated diesel from Canada. Toyota has never sold a diesel engine equipped vehicle in the US but does to most of the rest of the world. I must say this 15-year-old engine (direct injected) was almost as quiet as our TDI's both at idle and highway speeds. It had something like 350,000km on it and was ready for 350,000 more. If only Toyota would sell a TDI Camry in the US, I could die a happy man!
Custer, SD in the heart of the beautiful Black Hills. I pull into a busy Exxon station, all the gas pumps have a line waiting to use them. I snicker as I pull around to the side where the vacant diesel pump is and begin the familiar insert additive, start filling, check-oil-and-wash-windshield-while-tank-is-filling ritual. Not too long before one of the attendants that's smoking in front of the station comes over and says, "I hope that car's diesel". I was expecting this since I had out-of-state plates so he probably figured I was some dumb tourist. Too tired from hiking to feel much like playing with him I respond, "yep, it is" and he goes back about his business. All this time, there's been a car of high school kids up by the front of the station that had glanced over a few times probably giggling amongst themselves at this particular 'dumb tourist'. Just as I'm doing the venting thing, they leave and as they turn onto the highway, I hear one of them shout, "you dumb $hit, you filled up with diesel!". Also expecting something like this I shouted back, "it IS a diesel, blow me!!" I don't think they heard me but all the people at the pumps filling their SUV's with gas certainly did and gave me the cows-in-the-pasture stare. It was pretty amusing. The attendant overheard all this and got a good laugh out of it. He said they were locals and would probably be back to laugh at me and he'd point out the error of their ways.
As a side note, the reason I was in the Black Hills was for a Toyota Land Cruiser 4x4 event. There was a couple there that had found a way to import mid-80's Land Cruiser BJ70's with the 3.4L naturally aspirated diesel from Canada. Toyota has never sold a diesel engine equipped vehicle in the US but does to most of the rest of the world. I must say this 15-year-old engine (direct injected) was almost as quiet as our TDI's both at idle and highway speeds. It had something like 350,000km on it and was ready for 350,000 more. If only Toyota would sell a TDI Camry in the US, I could die a happy man!