Posted by Billy NY on September 29, 2009 at 10:11:34 from (74.67.3.238):
So, work is slow right now and I'm glad to be home to catch up on some work I need to get done.
I head over to the gas station, owned by a neighboring land owner and a former large dairy operation, well they just don't farm anymore just distribute dairy products. They are participating in a discount savings program offered by our local grocery store chain, whereas you get .20 cents off a gallon up to 20 gallons everytime you get $50 worth of groceries, needless to say the place has become very busy and there are short lines.
So... I pull in, get right to a pump, proceed to walk in, see a friends dad, whom is a neighbor, struggling with a gas cap on his '87 F150. I get to the counter, leave my discount card, and said I'm not sure how much my can and my car tank will take, here's $40, and my grocery store card for the discount. Lady at the counter kind of knows me, says, fill up and pay when you come back in, knowing I'm not a drive off deadbeat jerk.
This is when the simplest of things gets complicated, I walk past my friends dad, he asks for help getting the cap off, I help him, he's got the nozzle on the ground, and is due another discounted 5 gallons, well the pump times out and the cap breaks, can't get it open, so he says you need gas, you got a can, just take mine, ok...
Well in the confusion, some miserable wretch lady, backs up to my pump, that the attendant turned on for me, pumps $24 in gas, and takes off !!!, I had to go back inside because of my friends dad, his deal is screwed up, pump timed out, have to reset it, still due the discount, which they can't finish for him cause the pump times out, so I take 5 gallons at full price, no big deal, he's tight with a buck, me I just want to fill my mower, make up some gas for my saw and get something done today. Well now the attendant thinks I pumped the $24, and I said no way, some lady snuck in and I guess she took off without paying and now I'm going to get stuck with it ???? I could not believe this, all I wanted was to put some in my car, and my can, pay with cash, and leave, oh, and use my discount. So they believed me, not too alarmed, but I'm thinking I'm getting stuck with the bill and if they closed out the pump and used my card which they had, I get stuck with the bill, lose my $1.00/ per gallon off and pay full price for 5 gallons of regular, that I did not need cause I use Sunoco Ultra in my small engines ! WTF ??? I said, I need to leave and get out of here before I lose it, can I have my card back now, plus I had to go home and dump that can so I can get super anyway. Still wondering if they think I did it cause I wanted to leave before I did something I would regret, as this is the best policy for me when things get crazy, just leave, walk away, and forget it. Of course I am hemmed in by vehicles !
I get out, and head to the oldest operating station in town, the only other American owned, station in town, and was glad to pay full price for 5 gallons of super.
Between greed, and people that steal, this station giving the discount has become a madhouse, always a line, people are miserable, they really test the clerks at the counter, just ain't worth it, heck I thought I was going to end up in jail, cause if they tried to pin it on me, there'd have been a few people getting tossed through a window before I got done, SHEESH, what in heck is wrong with people today, lie, cheat, steal, murder, rape, drugs, this lady thought nothing of leaving without paying, cheating me of my discount, and sticking me with the darned bill, would like to hope someone t-bones her at an intersection or something, but that's not me, though she deserves it !
Be careful out there, never know what in heck is going to happen !
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