Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 07, 2024

So that’s the man responsible!

The guy at the emissions testing station showed me where mine was. I had never had a reason to pop the hood before.

At least it wasn’t another boring WWII vet-related strip.

Gas station attendant? Wow, this is an old one!

Car designers seem to purposefully make cars hard to work on. I remember having a Chrysler Newport that had to be jacked up and the front tires removed in order to reach the spark plugs through a flap in the wheel well. A PT Cruiser that requires removing a tire and the front bumper just to change a headlight. A Ford Escape that has no transmission fluid dipstick… the car has to be lifted to access the fluid level by removing a bolt underneath the car. I have many more examples of car designs that turn a five minute project into a major operation.

I used to work at a filling station, and the biggest problem I had wasn’t finding the hood latches, but the gas cap. It’s pretty well hidden on some cars.

Sounds like they’re trying to keep customers from figuring out that the car is a lemon.

Cracked me up!

I thought the inside light bulbs had burned out. Next service I told them to change them. I was later told they were switched off. For some reason they didn’t turn them on. I asked how and it took two people at the dealers to figure it out!!

You mean the “bonnet” old boy!

1977 resumes after the D-Day break.

That sounds the kind of tale an uncle would tell a nephew. My uncle Jack told the tale that explained the name for his town, Kingstree. It seemed a man named King would always park his horse by a certain tree outside of the local inn. One day, another man parked his horse by that tree, and King killed him for it. So, hereafter, the tree was called King’s tree and so came the town’s name. To my childlike mind that made all the sense in the world.

I knew it! And today this job will do a KI. Makes it even harder to open the hood.

Or the driver

So that’s why we no longer have service attendants. They all quit in frustration.

The Count’s uncle lives in Pennsylvania.

Erie?

No, but he is pretty weird.

Do they still try to disguise where you fill the gas tank?

The Count’s other uncle lives in Alaska.

Nome?

Sure, The Count knows ‘em. He’s The Count’s uncle.

Liberal entitled privileged minority delusional Anti-American mushrooms immerse themselves in a river in Egypt.

De Nile?

Yes

I haven’t heard “service station” in a while…

Today, he’d be designing toner cartridges for printers or chargers for Apple electronic devices.

Good job, uncle.

Lol

Whats a service station attendant??

That explains where Lucy got her crabby attitude from!

Now I’m pretty sure that uncle is in charge of GoComics’ URL-in-comments policy.

Ah, full serve! Those were the days!

Hood on my old ’50 Buick had to be opened by inserting a large “key” in the porthole on the side of the hood. You could open it from either side. I once handed the “key” to a young attendant & he had no clue what it was, much less how to use it. Had to open it for him to check the oil. Loved that old car.

And when there’s an accident, you can’t open the hood

Been there, swore at that.

So, Linus uncle is the one to blame for this deviousness.

I liked the Chevy with the gas filler behind the tail light. I worked in a gas station then.

:D That’s funny!

Remember in the ’60s, when one model hid the gas cap behind the rear license plate?

Ya gotta just love those cut-ups in design!

So it was HIM! I’ve cursed that designer many a time!

there was a span in the late 50s early 60s where they went to great lengths to hide the fuel filler cap.

“Do you remember when the service station attendant used to check your oil?”“What’s a service station attendant?”

I had a rental car while mine was being repaired. I kid you not, it took 10 minutes at the gas station to find the button to unlock the gas tank.

Wait, is that the job he had before the promotion, or the job to which he’s being promoted? I hope the former, because I’d hate to think how menial a job would have to be for hood latch placement to be seen as a step up.

Nor the owner of said vehicle, your uncle has a lot to answer for Linus! I was in a hotel parking lot in Bar Harbor, ME and had no idea where the trunk latch was, because the gentleman at the rental agency was kind enough to load my luggage for me and forgot to show me. Upon arrival at 10pm the front desk clerk came out, showed me where it was then proceeded to haul those bags inside; wonderful service from 2 very nice men ♥

That used to be important. Now gas station attendants don’t check under the hood. And the latch release is somewhere on the driver’s side inside the car.

Probably got fired afterwards, I’m sure.

Cute today love Linus and charlie

My dad was a fighter pilot who died in the line of duty, my mom’s youngest brother was in Vietnam and came home, I have cousins who served and more kin still on active duty. Our rights as Americans today were guaranteed by every soldier who died in every battle from the Civil war and those deaths were paid for in blood. The person in the featured comment showed a lot of disrespect for those who protected his or her rights today, had Hitler won we would be speaking in German, other countries may be speaking in Japanese. I am originally from the Philippines and I often visited the American cemetery there when I was young, names on graves and some without names the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.As of May 2016, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) estimated that around 130,000 American soldiers are buried in 25 cemeteries across 10 foreign countries. These countries include France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Panama, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, and Tunisia. The majority of the soldiers are casualties of World War I and II, as the option to be buried overseas ended after the Korean War. The ABMC also maintains 27 memorials to honor those missing in action from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Today we have China and Russia as threats and of course there are the Iran backed terrorists, the world is not perfect but we live in a country that we should be glad for its stand on freedom and individual rights. You don’t like it here, move. North Korea sounds like a good place to visit and learn from or Russia, just ask Britney Griner of her experience there.

service station attendant? ha – that is definitely a plugger time…

If lizard thinks those ‘WWII vet-related strips’ are boring, then he needs to move to another country. If it wasn’t for those WWII Vets, you would be speaking German, lizard!

Finally … some honesty about corporate America.

I think now days a service station will be the hardest thing to find. I have not seen one in a long time. Only convenience stores with fuel pumps in front. Al so in later years the hood latch was in side. I am showing my age right?

what is a ‘service station attendant’ ?