In high school, before self service was the norm, it was cool to pump your own gas.
Early 80s, 60 Minutes ran a piece on traveling bands of “mechanics” along interstate highways who would scam drivers into unnecessary repairs, often by surreptitiously squirting some light oil onto a “leaking” shock absorber and scaring drivers into a safety repair. Several days after the broadcast, on a return to trip to SoCal and passing through Tucson on I-10, I had two such scammers try that vary thing. Big gas station with empty repair bays; remember those? Despite their warnings of impending highway doom, they couldn’t understand why I was laughing so loud and long. I told them they needed to start watching Sunday night TV.
Uh...sorry for the detour, back to rising fuel prices.