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I don't know why, but I had to watch that at least 5 times . I've yet to see a fight at superchargers, but I've seen a ton of fights in LA over gas pumps (usually at Arco's) and I've seen a few fights at the San Jose Costco gas pump where someone will casually cut from the line and grab an open gas pump someone else was waiting for
Oh it’s fun to people watch at charging stations. I can’t say I don’t understand the frustration though I’d never get into a fight. Imagine waiting an hour just to fight someone over a plug.
I got gas yesterday and was all slamming the thing because I had to use my CC a few times, something that added just a minute or two to it had me slamming the thing, byttching about it. Charging isn’t for me unless it would be 100% at home.
Oh it’s fun to people watch at charging stations. I can’t say I don’t understand the frustration though I’d never get into a fight. Imagine waiting an hour just to fight someone over a plug.
I got gas yesterday and was all slamming the thing because I had to use my CC a few times, something that added just a minute or two to it had me slamming the thing, byttching about it. Charging isn’t for me unless it would be 100% at home.
I've Supercharged at least 40 times between here and SoCal over the last 3 years, and not once did I see anything like this. And I've never had to wait for a supercharger more than 10 minutes. At Tesla superchargers I've never even had to wait half a second
Me neither, but is it really any different from any other "people behaving badly" situation? It just happened to be at a charging station that time. Scenes like that happen everywhere everyday, because anywhere you have people, there are inevitably going to be a fair few stupid ones...
To quote the late, great George Carlin: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
I've Supercharged at least 40 times between here and SoCal over the last 3 years, and not once did I see anything like this. And I've never had to wait for a supercharger more than 10 minutes. At Tesla superchargers I've never even had to wait half a second
There are 8 Supercharger plugs here in this city of 800k, it's not like California here. I haven't seen any fights but lines and LOTTTSSS of impatient gestures. Mostly out of state tags. There are two more at the dealer but they're always full.
Originally Posted by swajames
Me neither, but is it really any different from any other "people behaving badly" situation? It just happened to be at a charging station that time. Scenes like that happen everywhere everyday, because anywhere you have people, there are inevitably going to be a fair few stupid ones...
To quote the late, great George Carlin: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Sure, good point, but I can imagine that happens semi-frequently in areas that don't have tonnnnns of chargers. Or when people have been waiting. I'm way too impatient, I would charge my Cyberbeast (yes, I really like it) at home.
Or stupidly. How hard is it to exit a car wash? Because today it was for some idiot. They held up the line and wouldn't exit, we had a line of cars with our brakes on (that's never happened in my life--ever) in the car wash.
Or stupidly. How hard is it to exit a car wash? Because today it was for some idiot. They held up the line and wouldn't exit, we had a line of cars with our brakes on (that's never happened in my life--ever) in the car wash.
Come here to Northern Cal, and you'll see stupidity beyond belief, like people driving 60 in the left lane, stopping on the freeway, stopping to make a left turn...while not in the left turn lane, and my favorite, texting while driving