There is a lot of urban rumours about cell phones. Noone really has proved anything, at least not scientifically. I remember seeing a small piece of sticker in every gas station’s pump, warning not to use cell phone around the pump. I never gave a thought around it, but just assumed, as we usually do in lot of others things in this modern life, that it would be some serious stuff. So I have grown used to now leaving the cell phone inside the car deliberately everytime I move out to pump gas.
Apparently, a researcher is claiming that a cell phone warrants no danger in a gas stations whatsoever. This is one more reason to believe that ‘static electricity’ is the culprit in most gas station accidents than a cell phone. If you have experienced ‘static electricity’, better be happy. It is annoying and almost always happens after you leave your car after a drive. Even though it is an equivalent of a slight prick, it is terribly irritating and you just can’t avoid it. The excess charge in our body must get released and your next contact with a any metal will likely kill you for a micro second! In most cases, doors knobs/handles that you touch after you hop out of your cars will honor you with that static.
So be more careful with your static and less cautious with your cell phones when filling up gas. Neverthless, these urban legends have become so much a part of our life that you have follow the rules even when you know they aren’t really harmful.
