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in town. They also have 18 gas pumps and a convenience store inside too. So I pull into the parking lot, which is crowded and not well laid out, and I have to wait in line behind a line of cars just to pull up for my turn at the pump.

I finally get to a pump and I get out of the car, open the gas cap, put the nozzle in, and push the button to select the fuel and I wait. And I wait. And I wait...and wait...and wait. The pump never authorizes.

Okay, so I go inside, stand in line behind five other people and wait until it's my turn at the register. I explain to the clerk how I wanted to fill up with gas on pump six. She said that the pumps are all prepaid, so I would have to pay first. I explained to her that I didn't know how much gas I wanted and I would be paying with a credit card. She said that wouldn't work, because I had to pay in advance.

So I offered to give the lady my credit card to hold while I pumped the gas and that I would then come in and pay out, thinking that if she had my credit card, she knew I wasn't going to leave. The clerk said, "No, I can't do that," and then started to ring up the purchases the man behind me had set on the counter.

I moved a bit between the man and the clerk and said, "Excuse me, I'm not finished here. Why can't you do that?" The man behind me was amused, but I wasn't.

The clerk said to me, and I quote here, "Because your credit card might not be any good."

Whoa!

By this time, I figured there was not much more I could say and I wasn't going to change this woman's mind, so I decided to play a little game. I said, "Okay, I have 10 dollars in my pocket, but I want to run this on my credit card. If I were to give you the 10 dollars, would you authorize the pump for me, and then when I pump the gas, I'll come back in here and you can run my card and then give me my ten dollars back?"

She said, "We don't give cash out to people on credit cards, but we have an ATM right here in the store for your convenience."

For my what? Convenience? Yeah, my 'convenience' had already flown out the window. So I went ahead and had her authorize the pump for $15.00, figuring the car would hold at least that much, and gave her my credit card to run. She took my card and ran it through and then finished waiting on the man she had already started to ring up before she finished my transaction.

I mentioned this to her, but she said that since she'd already rung up some of his things, she couldn't charge my gas on the register until she finished his. Okay,

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