
Seriously, I've been thinking exactly the same thing lately! Take yesterday... I'm having a pretty good afternoon with the kids so I decide after swim lessons to stop by a local gas station/ minnie mart to fill up the car and buy ice cream for the kiddo's. I put the nozzle in the tank and flip up the little thingy that starts the gas pumping. Nothing happens. I flip it on again and wait. I can hear the little chime sound from inside the store that is supposed to alert the cashier that someone is at the pump so I wait some more. Still not a drop of gas. Ours is the only car in the tiny parking lot so I know the cashier isn't waiting on other customers but still, I patiently wait. The kids are now cheerfully shouting their ice cream flavor requests at me from within the van-faces pressed against the windows. They are wondering what is taking me so long. I decide to go in and see if the cashier is aware that she has a customer waiting for gas. I walked into the store and didnt see anyone so I called out "Hello!"
No cashier. The store is tiny. I could see through the few short isles from the opened doorway and the store looked deserted. I was now slightly worried that the store may have been left unattended with the door wide open so I called "Hello?" a few more times with no response. As I was standing there wondering what I should do or if there is someone I should call an extrememly harried looking woman came bursting out from a tiny side door that I had not noticed before(it was behind a rack of chips).
I smiled at her and tried to hide my surprise and relief that someone was actually working there after all. I politely told her that I was trying to get gas but the pump wouldn't run.
She glared at me as she sort of flounced her way behind the counter and snapped "I know, I turned it off!"
Thinking there might be something wrong with the pump I mumbled something like "Oh, It's not working?"
And this is where the woman nearly took my head off- Like she was furious at ME for wanting to actually buy gas at a gas staion! Sheesh!
