Okay, it's bad enough we're paying high dollar for gas. $2.29/gal for regular in my neck of the woods, since I live about 20 miles outside of town in the boondocks.

Drive down to the local gas station, about 2 miles from the house just now since mom's car had no gas in it for tomorrow, and I needed to pick up a few things anyways. Pull up to the pumps, right in front of the bigass plate glass windows so the attendant inside can see me, under the lights, hit the pump and over the speaker:

"You have to prepay at night!"

Normally, this wouldn't be a concern; I swipe my debit card at the pump and go about my business. But since I had to pick up some stuff inside, it'd be easier just to swipe my card inside for everything I was buying all at once. Inside I go...

"Um, I need to fill up, how can I prepay when I don't know how much fuel my car's gonna take?"

"You have to prepay at night!" Rather snidely, I might add.

"Ma'am, I live about 2 miles down the road off <xx> Road, and I stop by here in my truck just about every morning." In the background, the other attendant says, "He's a regular customer."

"You have to prepay at night!"

"Look, here's the keys to the car so you know I ain't gonna run off. Got a piece of paper? I'll write the license plate number to the damn car down too if it'll make you feel better. Here's my driver's license too. Want my phone numbers?"

"You have to prepay at night!"

"Okay, f'k it, here's a $20, turn the damn pump on, I'll be right back."

In the big siddy where pump without paying is fairly common, I could understand this. But why in the hell would I risk my driver's license (in GA, they'll take your license if you're busted driving off from the pumps without paying), my local reputation (word spreads fast about the guy who lives on <xx> Road that stole gas from the station up the road), and my job (since I can't work on cars without a driver's license, duh) over $30 bucks worth of gas???

Fill up, go back inside, get my stuff and tell the attendant, "I'm gonna pay with my debit card."

"Well, you coulda done that outside!!" (Me thinking to myself: Well. No !@#!. Time for my smart *** remark: "Yes ma'am, I could have, but would you have brought my groceries I got here to my car afterwards? Didn't think so."

Stupid people **** me off.

 

some people can't handle power

 

So, Ol'girl is doin her job like the "man" wants her too and you give her some grief.

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I'm all in with you though I hate prepaying, I don't know why I just do. You should have showed her a knuckle sandwhich, that would have proved a point.

 

That knuckle sandwich would have Buford T. Justice knockin' on my door, wanting to throw me in the pokey overnight.

 

Next time you go for gas, take all them pennys you've been saving. Just dump them on the counter and tell her to turn on the pumps.

 

good thing you weren't jamezwayne...

 

Yea, Jaymz would have known what to do!

 

There’s not many stations left in my neck of the woods that aren’t pre-pay after dark either. A-holes that steal gas screw it up for honest people. I just go with it and think about what I’d do if it were my gas station; pre-pay SUCKER

 

In Florida you lose your license also if you are caught doing a gas run. I saw on the news last week that with the increase in prices, there is also an increase in gas runs, forcing customers to prepay. Most of the gas stations around here are prepay always.

 

Jamzster, we gotta another job for ya!