This guy works at a gas station
Posted Aug 23, 2011, 8:51 PM UTC
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to be fair, it is a gas station and not an auto shop?
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Yes, they only carried the common, basic vehicle products like motor oil and cheap accessories, and probably only because it's a chain store. But, the response still left me speechless.
Maybe nobody fuels up their motorcycle there?
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You do realize most lawnmowers are four stroke, right?
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You do realize most lawnmowers are four stroke, right?
It's pretty common for non sit-on to be 2-strokes.
Also things like hedge cutters and chainsaws (non-electric of course) are just about always 2-strokes engines.
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I would agree they exist, but pretty common is an overstatement, at least in the US, and I've never seen a chainsaw or trimmer that wasn't two-stroke.
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I've never seen a chainsaw or trimmer that wasn't two-stroke.
Neither have I, but considering I might have been wrong on that (and there's probably a guy who built a 4-stroke chainsaw in his garage) I decided to hedge my bet with "about always".
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True. Most, but not all. It just happened to pop into my head. I figure you need to buy gas for the lawnmower there, too, so that's probably another good reason to have the oil.
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So what was his reasoning for motorcycles not having engines? What did he think they had?
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Rotary engine guys often run two stroke as premix with gas to help the engine age better. Aids with seal wearing.
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I'm convinced that people IRL are just fucking with rage comic makers, and rage comic makers don't get it. Seriously, this guy was just making a joke and you take it all seriously. Now who's the dummy :)
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Trust me, I really wish this were true. I would have laughed and never thought about it again. In reality, he was a very young teenager working a part-time summer job, and I think his mouth just ran ahead of his brain. I think he meant to say something else like "motorcycles don't have two-stroke engines" or "motorcycles don't have outboard engines." The second guy was ringing me up, and they continued their discussion after I left the store.
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You are probably right. I just think it's kind of funny how the lack of social awareness of a lot of redditors probably makes for most of the rage comics where someone says something oh so stupid, and I'm sitting here like, Uh I say really dumb shit all the time just to fuck with people.
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all i could think about was seeing those two gas station employees as Dante and Randal from Clerks.
Perfect!