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  • Gas Pump Instructions: Help For Help?

    Mismatched gas pump instructions
    Mismatched gas pump instructions

    Challenge: given the conspicuous and obviously added-after-the-fact instruction sticker, find the HELP key on the stylin’ gray-on-black keypad.

    You may want to click on the picture for a bigger version. I had to remove my sunglasses and peer at the keypad; I’m glad I didn’t need any actual help.

    OK, maybe this is dynamiting fish in a barrel, but you’d sort of expect somebody would have noticed the problem along the way, what with the yellow background that required two-color sticker printing.

    My guess: they have more than one version of the pump…