Originally Posted by PimTac
"You can trust your car to the man behind the star".
Yep, I remember that catchy little tune. That was my first job and as a 16 year old high school sophomore it was a pretty good gig. I remember I started at $1.60/hour. The station owner was a good guy and treated us well.
This was in the era of full service gas stations where real automotive repair work happened in the service bays. Also too when we pumped gas we'd wash all the windows, and not just the windshield. Side mirror too (purposely singular, at the time very few cars had outside mirrors on the right side). We always checked the oil, battery, transmission, and tires too if they asked. Worst thing I ever saw happen there was tap water being used to top off the batteries. Otherwise it seemed to me that the repairs were done well. As I said, the owner was a good guy.
There was this one trampy blonde woman who used to buy gas there. She was in her mid ‘20s I'd guess - which seemed old to me at the time. Trampy aside, she was decent looking, although she looked like she had lived a rough life so far.
Anyway, she used to wear a short skirt and nothing else. I'll go G-rated here, but she used to purposely and completely expose herself to us young bucks while we washed her windshield. She always had the cleanest windshield of all our customers! At age 16 I'd never seen one of those things before so it was educational. I learned a lot on that job!
Scott