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I'm driving down a rural road last Saturday. At 45 miles per hour I spot an unrestored pump in the woods about 40 yards in. Hit the brakes, back up without hitting anything and begin my trek into the woods. Fighting sapplings, snow, and wind I'm almost there. What could it be my mind wonders, an A38, perhaps and MS80. As I approach my new found treasure, to my dismay it is neither of the above. Instead it is a pump made by Fridgidaire, it looks like it must have kept food and drink items cold at one time. I see the outlines of pumps everywhere I drive, I see them in my sleep. Is this some type of dimensia or paranoid episode? I think I need professional help.

If you find help see if you can get a
group rate.We'll all come along.LOL
---JERRY

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I still think we need to start a gas pumps anonymous...
Hi My names Don and I have a problem..... Gas pumps and I can't stop. I have tried everything, rehab, I even dropped one on my foot, hurt by back, lost my wife and kids, I still can't stop looking for and bringing home gas pumps.
HELP please someone.

I either need to stop {ya right} Or I need another fix??? Anybody got a pump I can buy????

When Don Sherwood and I made out trek into Oregon and beyond in search of pumps I was the same way. We drove for hours and I was checking every inch of the landscape. I thought I was going to puke most of the time, my eyes were sore and I was dizzy. I thought every old heap of metal was a cash recorder!
In the end it always seemed Don was the one to spot one, he is good.

guilty as well. Anything tall with a rounded top gets my attention
(that works for girls as well)

Maybe we should get into pump swapping!!

I take my Boyle-Dayton to Lance for awhile, I take one of his back , then 6 months later we switch again!

No money changes hands, feels like getting a new pump, get to smash your fingers and toes loading em up..lotsa fun..MeThinks..LOL

dodo: pumps don't get jealous of other pumps do they??

I will run that one by my girl friend tonight.
Pump swapping???????
Wish me luck
This should be good...

Lets just say you wont get in too much trouble swapping pumps, and they will never say.."Do I look FAT with this Decal and Globe??"

They will however get jealous or feel inadequate when we spend all out time OOOHHHIING & AAAHHHHIIING over them BIIIIG GIIIRRRLLLS...them doubles and twins!!...LOL

I even let my wife drive on the weekends so I can scope out pumps without driving off the road and putting my whole family in danger. Its a serious disease. Gotta love it though. ~Jason

I once was fooled by a tall-cut stump. Coulda sworn it was an Erie clockface. I feel the pain.

Count me in !! I was driving through the mountains and I thought I spotted a Tok 850. I swerved and almost ended up in a ditch. The friend I was with thought I had a seizure or something when he found out I thought i saw one of my favorite pumps laying on its side calling out to be rescued, he thought I was nuts. I ran up in the woods through a bunch of blackberry thorns and everything...I almost cried when I to my dismay it was a hot water heater someone dumped...If I recall right I think I kicked it and called it a decieving piece of ****. LOL

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Hubba the GAS GEEK , OIL FREAK of Shoreline WA

HA HA what did he think when you got back in the car??? Still laughing.

Reminds me of the time I was driving with a buddy that never collects anything. We are trucking down the road pretty fast and I see a bunch of balloons on a post at the front of a yard, Yard Sale says I, lets check it out on the way back. It was mid afternoon and we went back that way a short time later. My buddy could care less if we went to a garage sale, so we pull in the drive. Not a wide drive a bit hard to get turned around till you got to the back, big open space behind the house. We see tables set up, kids all over , cake, pop, presents, etc, etc.
Buddy looks over at me with a look of disbelief, says "Good One, you crashed Little Jimmy's Birthday party"!!!

Good thing I didnt kick little Jimmy..LOL..dodogas

LOL!!!!!!! & i thought i was the only one!!!!!!
& ive also been fooled by a tree cut off about 6' high & didnt think id ever admit that one!
i cant take it sometimes & pull into a farm yard like i own the place do a BIG slow U-turn rubber neckin something fierce!!!!!!!!!

i did that ol U-turn one time & sure enough there was a wayne 40-A hid behind a shed, nice blue pump with a pair of deer antlers in place of the globe. i went to the house with an attached garage hit the doorbell & the garage door went down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WRONG FRICKEN BUTTON!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! SCARED THE HELL OUTTA THE OL PEOPLE & THEY WERNT ABOUT TO SELL ME ANYTHING AFTER THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!



[This message has been edited by tom 2 tone (edited 01-17-2004).]