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  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    I don't understand how business can get away with paying anyone less than minimum wage because the person may be subject to tips, that is just wrong.  As people said, some people are lousy tippers.  It's just wrong in my opinion.

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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Here’s one that pisses me off. Gas stations that charge more per gallon if you use a credit card. Now this wouldn’t piss me off if I lived anywhere near a place that still let’s you pay after you pump, but they’re all prepay. If I stop at a gas station, it means I’m filling up the tank, and since the dollar total will always be different in this case, it’s impossible to prepay without making two trips to the cashier. The second one to ask to turn the pump back on or get change back if I overpaid.

    I think the whole goddamn thing is a racket. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • vogonpoetbythelake
    vogonpoetbythelake Posts: 2,146
    Minimum wage is lower than other jobs for servers in Canada ...not sure about  the States or if people realize that...
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    dankind said:
    Here’s one that pisses me off. Gas stations that charge more per gallon if you use a credit card. Now this wouldn’t piss me off if I lived anywhere near a place that still let’s you pay after you pump, but they’re all prepay. If I stop at a gas station, it means I’m filling up the tank, and since the dollar total will always be different in this case, it’s impossible to prepay without making two trips to the cashier. The second one to ask to turn the pump back on or get change back if I overpaid.

    I think the whole goddamn thing is a racket. 
    You must have an indication of how much you need, just say $25, $30 whatever.  You should know not to go over.  If you request a specific amount instead of "filling up" shouldn't be an issue.  May not fill your tank, but you should have an idea how much not to go over.   Or do you have to fill up every time???  Hell, what am I talking about, I live in Jersey, never have to get out of my car to gas up.  I guess I'm confused, can't you use a card and just say $25, or whatever or do you have to say "fill it up??"  
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    PureandEasy said:
    dankind said:
    Here’s one that pisses me off. Gas stations that charge more per gallon if you use a credit card. Now this wouldn’t piss me off if I lived anywhere near a place that still let’s you pay after you pump, but they’re all prepay. If I stop at a gas station, it means I’m filling up the tank, and since the dollar total will always be different in this case, it’s impossible to prepay without making two trips to the cashier. The second one to ask to turn the pump back on or get change back if I overpaid.

    I think the whole goddamn thing is a racket. 
    You must have an indication of how much you need, just say $25, $30 whatever.  You should know not to go over.  If you request a specific amount instead of "filling up" shouldn't be an issue.  May not fill your tank, but you should have an idea how much not to go over.   Or do you have to fill up every time???  Hell, what am I talking about, I live in Jersey, never have to get out of my car to gas up.  I guess I'm confused, can't you use a card and just say $25, or whatever or do you have to say "fill it up??"  
    I can’t stand that about Jersey. I always make sure that I have a full tank before I get on the turnpike. I can pump my own gas, damn it. 

    And I have to fill up every time. It’s just a thing with my wiring. 

    I just don’t see how gas stations are allowed to get away with the credit card hustle. It should be illegal. I feel like I’m being scammed every trip to get gas. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    dankind said:
    PureandEasy said:
    dankind said:
    Here’s one that pisses me off. Gas stations that charge more per gallon if you use a credit card. Now this wouldn’t piss me off if I lived anywhere near a place that still let’s you pay after you pump, but they’re all prepay. If I stop at a gas station, it means I’m filling up the tank, and since the dollar total will always be different in this case, it’s impossible to prepay without making two trips to the cashier. The second one to ask to turn the pump back on or get change back if I overpaid.

    I think the whole goddamn thing is a racket. 
    You must have an indication of how much you need, just say $25, $30 whatever.  You should know not to go over.  If you request a specific amount instead of "filling up" shouldn't be an issue.  May not fill your tank, but you should have an idea how much not to go over.   Or do you have to fill up every time???  Hell, what am I talking about, I live in Jersey, never have to get out of my car to gas up.  I guess I'm confused, can't you use a card and just say $25, or whatever or do you have to say "fill it up??"  
    I can’t stand that about Jersey. I always make sure that I have a full tank before I get on the turnpike. I can pump my own gas, damn it. 

    And I have to fill up every time. It’s just a thing with my wiring. 

    I just don’t see how gas stations are allowed to get away with the credit card hustle. It should be illegal. I feel like I’m being scammed every trip to get gas. 
    I feel like I am wasting a trip if I don't.  My only exception was with the rental I drove for almost a month. Not filling it full drove me crazy. 

    Gas station attendants went out here somewhere in maybe the mid 80's? 
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,814
    I've never considered not filling all the way up since becoming an adult with a bank account.
    Remember as a teen putting $5 or $10 in because that was all I had.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I've never considered not filling all the way up since becoming an adult with a bank account.
    Remember as a teen putting $5 or $10 in because that was all I had.
    I remember rolling pennies for gas. (Back when I was in college in the early 90's.) Had a Camaro with a very big motor. The thing drank gas. The gas station hated me. 
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    It was $2 to get to my dealer’s and back. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • what dreams
    what dreams Posts: 1,761
    edited November 2019
    I just recently discovered this gas station thing when I went to patronize the Shell station owned by a local political candidate I was supporting. A mutual acquaintance brought him to my house early in the race to meet me, and I really liked him. So then the next time I needed gas, I pull into his station and see the price difference for using a credit card, and I'm like, WTF? I have never seen that before. Pissed me off. I did fill up, but that was the only time I visited his gas station.

    He lost the race.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I've never considered not filling all the way up since becoming an adult with a bank account.
    Remember as a teen putting $5 or $10 in because that was all I had.
    When I was a teen, $5 or $10 was a fill up.  :lol: 

    But I know what you mean- when we were young, most of us could only afford to put in a gallon or two.  Now, I almost never let my fuel get much below half a tank and very rarely let it get down to the last couple of gallons.  It's kind of a security thing.  I like knowing that most of the time I could, if I had to, go somewhere between 400 to 500 miles nonstop before running dry.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,831
    edited November 2019
    brianlux said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I've never considered not filling all the way up since becoming an adult with a bank account.
    Remember as a teen putting $5 or $10 in because that was all I had.
    When I was a teen, $5 or $10 was a fill up.  :lol: 

    But I know what you mean- when we were young, most of us could only afford to put in a gallon or two.  Now, I almost never let my fuel get much below half a tank and very rarely let it get down to the last couple of gallons.  It's kind of a security thing.  I like knowing that most of the time I could, if I had to, go somewhere between 400 to 500 miles nonstop before running dry.

    I still regularly only put $10 in. But usually for 1 of 2 reasons. 
    1) we are downtown or someplace where gas is 10 or 20 cents more per gallon and I just want some for a couple days and refill at my local station where it’s cheap.
    2) far more common than scenario 1- its 4 degrees outside and I want enough just to get to work and then fill up in the afternoon when it breaks 20. The problem is I’ll have enough gas to get home in the afternoon and I tell myself I’m just tired and want to get home. This cycle repeats for 3-4 days until I just fill up in the bitter cold anyway.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    mace1229 said:
    brianlux said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I've never considered not filling all the way up since becoming an adult with a bank account.
    Remember as a teen putting $5 or $10 in because that was all I had.
    When I was a teen, $5 or $10 was a fill up.  :lol: 

    But I know what you mean- when we were young, most of us could only afford to put in a gallon or two.  Now, I almost never let my fuel get much below half a tank and very rarely let it get down to the last couple of gallons.  It's kind of a security thing.  I like knowing that most of the time I could, if I had to, go somewhere between 400 to 500 miles nonstop before running dry.

    I still regularly only put $10 in. But usually for 1 of 2 reasons. 
    1) we are downtown or someplace where gas is 10 or 20 cents more per gallon and I just want some for a couple days and refill at my local station where it’s cheap.
    2) far more common than scenario 1- its 4 degrees outside and I want enough just to get to work and then fill up in the afternoon when it breaks 20. The problem is I’ll have enough gas to get home in the afternoon and I tell myself I’m just tired and want to get home. This cycle repeats for 3-4 days until I just fill up in the bitter cold anyway.
    Brrrr! 

    I lived in western NY state for a couple of winters.  The filling up- or doing anything out doors- was always a major chilling experiencing.  The worst was going the 50 yards or so from my car to the building in temps with wind chill factor at around 60 below (Fahrenheit).
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    dankind said:
    It was $2 to get to my dealer’s and back. 
    Oh God, that cracked me up.  
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go

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