Watch your gas

Blowing up foul prices

Two gas stations across from one another had prices within pennies of each other. So  I chose the cheaper one which was also the easier one to maneuver back into traffic.

I don't know anyone who takes gas pump receipts and neither do I. But I do jot down the price in my checkbook roster. That's how I square up with the credit card company. I have never had a problem before November. In November, the credit card statement came with a $7 charge above my notation. I had no receipt so I couldn't prove anything. And the last time I walked inside to ask the clerk something, he was very aggressive and nasty. 

Figuring this was a truly illegal rip-off, I wanted no part of them again. Later that month, the darlin' angel tapping on my shoulder said...."go on.....blow the whistle on them." I'm not really a fighter but I am from the Bronx.  I grew up where baseball was the Yankees. And they always won. So in December, I went back, twice, got receipts and let the precious proof float around my house in my usual bookkeeping style. I lost one.

The credit card statement showed that twice again, the daylight thieves took $7 over the receipt. 

I called my credit card company and went directly to dispute with the one receipt I put in my drawer. They asked me if I tried to settle with the company manager. There was no phone number on the receipt and without an armed guard, I wouldn't go back inside. No problem...the credit card company pulled all three purchases.

The following month, three credit card letters stated I'd pay only the receipt gas price. 

Twenty-one dollars evaporated like the petrol spill on the guy's pants.

Ever crude smell but dried refine.