If that’s the case, it doesn’t sound like you can afford gas at all, so what’s the problem?
Nobody’s shoving anything down anyone throats. My OP was about people cutting in line because for whatever reason they think they’re special or somehow better than everyone else.
I have no issue with your op. That dude was a first class asshole.
I saw something similar last Christmas, waiting in a long line for the cashier at Sears. An old guy sidled up to the till, wanting to pay for his underwear. The cashier pointed out the end of the line to him. He said, “I don’t want to wait in line.” The cashier basically told him too fucking bad, get over there. Since we’re all Canadian, we didn’t actually applaud, but the appreciation in the air was palpable.
They served us Lindt chocolates in that line, too, if I recall correctly. Best Christmas shopping line of my life. 
It is a “simple option” for people who use it responsibly. If you can’t use it responsibly, then no, nobody else will pay for your huge fucking miscalculation fees. Plenty of people keep track of their shit and don’t have to pay $45 in overdraft fees. You’re not the only one who has consequences for that sort of thing.
It’s not a debate about the availability of credit or the fact that some people are stupid about it, it’s about one asshole who wants to pay cash and then bitch about the act of conducting a cash transaction.
If you’d like to bitch about the inconvenience of using cash because you have to stand in line to conduct your transaction, then I will suggest a more convenient option, which is a debit or credit card. Yeah, boo hoo, it’s so ignorant and small minded to suggest a form of convenient payment widely used and accepted all across the world.
Cry me a river.
You know how I solve that? By using a budget.
I know exactly how much money I have to spend on gas every paycheck. And everything else, for that matter. I track what I spend on a spreadsheet, and compare that to what has cleared my bank by using their online service. Doesn’t involve using a debit card or a credit card. It just involves knowing how much you have and how much you can spend.
BTW, there is absolutely no difference between using a debit card than using cash for me. Some will say that a gas station, in particular, may put a large hold on your debit card if you use it at the pump, but I have never ever had that problem. Even when I had thirty bucks in my account and put $25 in the tank.
I’d ask if this was about you, however, the customer here is a woman.
assuming he just got out of church; no matter how little he put in the collection basket, he obviously didn’t get his money’s worth.
There are always a few assholes in every long line who don’t feel that they should have to wait, for whatever reason. Hell, I don’t like to wait, I hate waiting in line, but until we go back to the days of taking numbers and sitting down until we’re called up, that’s the way retail is gonna work.
It’s usually the older ones who are the worst, though I’ve seen some teens and young adults try this too.
More cashiers should resist the impulse to just cave. Not caving will piss off the assholes, but caving will piss off the rest of the customers, who will just decide to quietly take their business elsewhere.
I do agree with Frank about not waiting in line twice to get change. I pay cash often when I go back in to get change I do cut to the front to get it. I’ve never had an issue doing so. IMO it’s part of the transaction I waited in line for already.
As to the OP I agree completely. The punk had no legitimate reason to cut the line other then his own selfishness.
Yea I tried that budget thing. Well more accurately I tried keeping things tallied in a ledger. One day I was 50 cents off, and pumped 50 more cents then I had. This was a different bank. By the time I found out that 50 cents had costs me $108 in over draft fees, and it cost that bank a customer. Things are very tight sometimes, so money in the bank is luxury. Over draft fees are fucking ridiculous.
Anyway stuff like that has taught me debt is only for internet purchases, cash for everything else. Pay the bills, sort some money out for gas, then whatever’s left can food and what not.
alphaboi867, I applaud you. You stepped into the line of fire when an obviously irrational man, but it was for the better good of society. I bet some of those people in line told their SOs/friends about the righteous cashier who stood hard against that prick who is always trying to cut in line.
For those of you that are oh so torn up over having to go in a second time to get your change, here’s an option. Don’t top off your freaking tank to the cent. If you estimate that your tank needs about a bit less than $20 worth of gas, then get $15 worth of gas to be on the safe side. It won’t kill you to have 3/4 of a tank anymore than it would kill you to stand in line twice. If I am ever at a gas station that allows customers to cut in line, I will never shop there again*. It’s not like I can’t find another station half a mile down the road.
*There are exceptions to this if the reasoning is righteous. If I’m standing in line and a mother with baby in tow gets in line with formula and diapers and the cashier asks if she can cut, of course I’ll allow it. More than likely, I’d invite her to step in front of me. But good excuses like this are few and far between.
Old Guy In A Suit Syndrome, I think it’s called.
It seems pretty common, at least around here for someone wanted to pay cash for gas to go to the front of the line to give the cash and then come back and wait in the line for their change. I’ve never really looked sideways at it, as it seems to be pretty much the standard.
When I get gas its either my speedpass or debit card. I can’t remember the last time I paid cash for gas.
Well done, alphaboi.
So why should cash customers be expected to wait in line twice for one transaction? How is that fair to cash customers?
Because cutting in line is wrong regardless of how you pay? Nobody is persecuting you for paying with cash. It’s just the nature of the transaction. Alternatively, people used to only have to stand in line gasp once! when paying with cash because the attendant would just turn the pump on, but then people started stealing gas with that little extension of goodwill so now you have to prepay.
Some day that person’s going to cut in line ahead of the wrong person.
He should be thankful if he gets just a rebuke from the people in line ahead of him.
Pssst! Read post 16.
Well, if you’re putting $20 on a gas pump, unless you’re driving something even smaller than my Honda Fit and have more than 1/4 tank, you’re not going to stand in line twice because there’s not going to be any change. Gas is currently $2.50 a gallon here–that’s 8 gallons of gas the old coot was wanting, probably less in most markets. In order for the man in the OP to have any change to wait in line for, he’d have to have a quarter of a tank in something tiny like my Fit (11.3 gallon tank) or more than half a tank in my parents’ sedan (17 gallon tank.) He wasn’t balking at having to stand in line twice, he was balking at standing in line at all.
I usually pay cash for my gas, and I can’t remember the last time I had to go back and get change because I just calculate roughly how much I can get in and how much it will cost. No, my tank isn’t topped up to the last drop, usually somewhat over 3/4 of a tank, but it’s frankly just not that big a deal.