Originally Posted by: schmangeThe most embarrassing part for me was pulling up on the plastic thing under where the pump goes, looking for the lever.
The guy behind me must have thought I was a total doofus.

I had an experience similar, actually. For the longest time I'd been filling up at stations much like the one you described until one day I drove into a smaller town and stopped for gas. I'd looked around for a button or something to push and I just couldn't find anything. Eventually I got fed up, walked inside and asked if there was something wrong with the pump. They gave me a look that said you're a dumb ass and said "did you lift up the lever?" I was mostly shocked that they still made those things.