If it is the eight button variety the 2nd from the top button on the right side will mute it. Even though it is unlabeled.

At the station by my house somebody used a label maker to label the mute button on all the pumps. I assume an employee who was tired of hearing the ads or hearing customers complain about the ads.

Euro-person her: the ones by me have a videocamera pointing at us...they just get the finger during my transaction.

I would feel no hesitation to tape or sticker over any of those.

Every camera I see gets the finger. Especially when I'm at Kroger / Fry's / Ralphs / Dillons and there's no manned cashier and I need to use the self-checkout.

UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA.

Some of them play the ads somewhat constantly. Really freaked me out the first couple times I walked to my local grocery store with a gas station at 5 AM, then suddenly heard someone loudly talking behind me.

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I remembered the little dancer in Tetris.

> Not sure if it’s common elsewhere, but many gas stations around my area have screen on the pump that play obnoxiously loud ads while you’re pumping gas. Most of them have a mute button at least.

One of the many, MANY jarring things about going to the US. I jam my gas-gap filler cap in the handle and go check the oil so I can get as far away from that nonsense as possible.

All the gas pump handles I've used have a thingy that you can flip down to hold the trigger in place so you can let go and they will keep pumping. I've only pumped gas in Washington, California, and at a station that was on a Native American reservation in Oregon. Are there states where gas pumps don't have support hands free pumping?

> Are there states where gas pumps don't have support hands free pumping?

Yep, it has been taken away in a lot of places to prevent spilling.

When I did it in Australia the attendant turned off the pump and scolded me.