Originally Posted By: SR5
Originally Posted By: Garak
SR5 and aquariuscsm: Paid air is becoming the wave of the future. There is a company up here that installs little coin operated "air dispensing stations" for free and shares the revenue with the site, be it a gas station or a convenience store or whatever. Since gas stations usually don't need air compressors for impact tools any longer, this saves them from having to shell out for an air compressor of their own.
A coin operated air compressor !! That would make me so cranky !
What about all the young kids on their bicycles that just want to pump up their tires ?
Mind you, those young kids have better mobile phones than I do, so I suspect it's a different era than when I was a kid.
It's not that bad, and you don't need to get nostalgic for the "good old days".
In CA, there is a legal exemption for children, and stations are required to not charge them for air.
The way it really works in reality is similar to how the bathrooms are locked and you ask for the key.
Every single station, you go and ask them, they will activate the air pump whether you bought fuel or you didn't.
What is really being implemented as a behavioral trick to take away the level of anonymity so people don't just rampage and abuse stuff when they think nobody is wathcing.
Coming back to the Original Post, if they made it so you had to talk to the clerk to check out a clean bucket of water and squeegee to use and return face-to-face or at least you had to put back under the view of an attendent, you'd get a similar behavioral change. People wouldn't abuse the slop buckets nearly as much if they knew they were being observed.
Look at the internet, it's a cesspool, a good portion due to the anonymity.
