BA: Keys and Gas Stations

Random Oddnesses:

The keys are skeleton keys. They are not universal - but they definitely compose the bulk of door keys - and are even used on things like padlocks. They are weird, fiddly, and bulky. My other key, a dimple-pin key, looks like normal blank, with little indentations on the flat of the blade, instead of serration on it's edge. It's impossible to tell from looking about how many of the "normal" locks are actually of this design. The whole key situation is just odd.

Gas Stations are also odd. But in this case much more efficient, every station is designed with a continuous entrance from the street with the car driving directly into the pump on an angle and from there around the back of the pumps to the street. No second chances or forgetting which side the tank is on. The throughput per square foot is truely impressive. I've seen stations of this sort in europe - but in BA they are universal.

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