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Originally Posted by flameswin
I don't know how people are able to make a scene over certain things in public. I picked up water on the way home at Petro Canada, and a lady comes storming in, flailing her arms and saying...
"Please CANCEL my fill up! Your sign is just being changed from $1.19 to $1.24, and when I got to the pump it was already at $1.24. I specifically stopped in here because of the $1.19!
Are you going to cancel it, I've already got it set up, and you'd BETTER be able to cancel it!"
Just making a total scene, and trying to bring some other guy in on it.." That guy out there is also coming in to demand the same thing (Guy's just out there pumping his gas, as he likely just nodded his head so she'd stop talking to him).
Just embarrassing, making a total scene and shouting. The immigrant lady at the till, who can only kind of speak English is just all polite and not getting upset or anything. Probably just thinking "****, another psycho white woman who can't control herself over the littlest thing. Give her one year in home country and she'd pray for the day when this was the worst thing to happen in a day".
I don't get public outbursts, I honestly don't. I understand a little arguing or putting your foot down when service is bad. But acting out like a teenager (and not trying to be that guy, but more often than not it's middle aged women involved in these embarrassing attempts at publicly humiliating and berating another human being) is just so odd.
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just curious... had she already filled up and was just trying to get a full tank of gas for free, or even at the old price?
if she did then she should pay more attention to what the actual price at the pump is. maybe i'm weird, but i always make note of the price in my head before i start to fill up, just to make sure i didn't accidentally hit the wrong octane button on the pump
if she hadn't filled up, couldn't you just cancel it at the pump. if that didn't work, just put in 1 cent of gas, then put the nozzle back and drive away
maybe she just wanted to feel like a rock star?? (is green text needed for that? i hope not!!)