I got gas in NJ, one of only two states (OR) where you can’t be trusted to pump your own gas. :rolleyes: The pump kicked off at $xx.23. When the attendant came over he tried topping it off & I yelled at him to stop it at 50¢, which he ignored. The pump then stopped again at 73¢, at which point I opened the door & told him to STOP! (I know my car; it doesn’t top off well). But Noooo, he had to get it up to the whole dollar amount because he’s too fucking lazy to deal with some coins. I get out of my car & look; that last xx¢ didn’t make it into the tank, but is instead running down the side of my car.
He then asks me for the whole dollar amount. Oh FUCK NO! It’s only a few cents, but you’re trying to charge me for something you didn’t give to me while simultaneously pouring gasoline down the side of my car. My choice is to leave it on there, which isn’t good for the paint or wash it off with the windshield washer squeegee, which is abrasive & also not good for the paint. So I squeegeed my quarter-panel because you couldn’t be arsed to do it.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised; if you don’t have enough brain cells to know when to stop filling a gas tank, you probably don’t have don’t have enough brain cells to know why the customer is ripping you a new asshole & insisting that you only charge him for the $xx.50 instead of the whole dollar amount that the pump now reads, all because your too lazy to use a couple of coins & clean up your spills.
Loach, LavBlue, Green Bean, & the other Joisey Dopers - please try to get your lawmakers to come into the 20th Century & be like almost every other state. Hell, if the inbreds in Appalachia can be trusted to pump their own gas, surely the Luddites in your state can do it, too. Besides,
Yes, I did intentionally say ‘rocket surgery’ in the title.
At least here in Orygun attendants are not allowed to top off. (At least not by default; I’ve asked in the past and they’ve complied.) So that helps, I guess…but otherwise, yeah, fucking stupid and needs to end.
What is with this anti-cash scorn that seems to come up like bad breath every time a person pays for something in cash? I’ve carried cash all my life and have never had a problem being hassled or threatened, and yet it seems like every time I’m in a group and pull out a money clip to pay, I’m assailed by people who are convinced I’m going to get mugged seconds after I leave the establishment, forcing me to respond by explaining that I’ve only had someone try to yoke me once (unaware that I wasn’t carrying any cash) and that ended up being a very bad deal for the intended perpetrator, although I’m sure his physical therapist was intrigued about the various ways an elbow could articulate when manipulated with the persuasive application of compound leverage. Meanwhile, while everyone else is fumbling around writing their individual payments on the back of the bill and asking the poor waitress to run seven different bank cards, I drop a small stack of cash on the table with a generous tip and go on my merry way.
You’re a stupid fuck. Bills and coins are still “legal tender for all debts,” and it’s convenient to use. Fuck you for your stupid highjack.
The OP: did you actually pay the amount showing on the pump, or was the clerk willing to accept responsibility for his spillage? That’s the sort of small irritation that I would pursue to the station manager, and then right up the corporate ladder. Be damned sure to communicate this to the gas company’s customer service department. It might not help a lot, but I believe that rational and articulate complaints really do get some beneficial results.
Dealing with cash and people counting out / making change is a pain in the ass and slows down the line for everyone else. The OP is a good example. The whole stupid little freakout over whether the attendant stopped the pump at a $0.50 multiple would have been unnecessary if he just paid for his gas with a credit card.
You know, for people who deal with pumping gas all the damned time, you’d think they would know how to do it. I hate stopping for gas in Jersey, it might be cheaper, but I hate doing it. I was just there two weeks ago, the guy asked me to open the gas tank. Um, hey pal, it opens from the outside, and it has a finger hold RIGHT there, it’s not like it needs to be pushed in or anything, just put your finger in and pull. Instead he sat there and kept asking me to pop the tank for him.
Having them fill up a motorcycle is no better, they have no idea how to do that, the couple of times I have they have overfilled it and spilled it all over the rest of the bike.
Really, it’s not that hard to fill up a gas tank, if it was so dangerous they would be blowing up all the time.
Why should I pay an extra 8¢/gallon? How hard is it to keep a few quarters in your pocket? Round it to the nearest quarter, no issue but don’t try to jam an almost extra ½-gallon down the pipe. If the stoopit state would allow me to pump my own it wouldn’t be an issue, either. 48 other states think their residents are intelligent enough to do it; it’d would hardly be cutting edge legislation for NJ to pass.
Yeah, I like cash. As a business owner, I’ve had checks bounce (no longer accept them) and I’ve had credit card payment reversed over silly reasons that weren’t worth fighting.
I love it when I quote a fee, say $425, to a local (often a farmer) and he pulls out a wad of cash and asks what I’ll take in cash (waggling his eyebrows). I say, $400, he winks and hands me the cash.
Not sure what it’s all about, but everyone ends up happy.
Reading comprehension much? The OP wanted the attendant not to fill his car to overflowing. For all you know the attendant could just be OCD rather than incapable of dealing with change.
Yeah and older people have a hard time remembering things , I was always forgetting my pin # and it not wise to write it down . I don’t see many people leaving their cash behind but I do see people forgetting to take their credit card .
This is yet another reason to arm yourself with a firearm. Preferably a .44 Magnum Smith and Wesson Model 29. I tell ya, that attendant would have stopped if he saw that mag pointing between his eyes and heard Dirty Harry saying “Not another drop fool.”