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Abominable Showman
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I have to say I'm still not certain it wasn't a real albeit mundane experience, probably with a little embroidery in the telling.
For one thing I feel like a made-up story would have had higher and more obvious strangeness added to it. In any case the fact that the petrol station proprietor didn't seem overly confused by modern currency, a Volkswagen van etc, suggests that there was really nothing out of the ordinary here.
As mentioned before in this thread, I had a similar experience of passing (but not being able to find again, despite careful searching) a distinctively old fashioned petrol station. In this case, I'm pretty sure the answer was confusion over which road I was on. The bloke standing at the pumps, modern car parked by them and sadly contemporary petrol prices on the sign all spoke of the essential normality of the petrol station, despite it subsequently 'vanishing'. But who's to say, if I was a bit more creatively minded or retelling the tale at several decades' distance, that I wouldn't start remembering, say, an Austin 7 parked at the pumps or something. I think something like that might have occurred in this case.
For one thing I feel like a made-up story would have had higher and more obvious strangeness added to it. In any case the fact that the petrol station proprietor didn't seem overly confused by modern currency, a Volkswagen van etc, suggests that there was really nothing out of the ordinary here.
As mentioned before in this thread, I had a similar experience of passing (but not being able to find again, despite careful searching) a distinctively old fashioned petrol station. In this case, I'm pretty sure the answer was confusion over which road I was on. The bloke standing at the pumps, modern car parked by them and sadly contemporary petrol prices on the sign all spoke of the essential normality of the petrol station, despite it subsequently 'vanishing'. But who's to say, if I was a bit more creatively minded or retelling the tale at several decades' distance, that I wouldn't start remembering, say, an Austin 7 parked at the pumps or something. I think something like that might have occurred in this case.