VA: Old Gas Station Bitches are Always Cramping My Style
Sep 19th, 2007
(22 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
Loading ...Ok, so I’ve been really fucking sick lately. But I’ve always been kind of a soldier when it comes to dealing with illness. I am not one of those namby […]
Original post: Old Gas Station Bitches are Always Cramping My Style
…there’s a reason why some people are gas station attendants even when they’re “grown ups” and why some are not.
May be sick, but she’s funny…
Did she even consider that maybe the lady needed to know the pump number to be able to see how much it was and that knowing even the exact price really wasn’t any good to her?
Being sick is not an excuse for being such a petty bitch.
Knocking over the antifreeze display would have been nothing but childish. There’s nothing funny about this.
Ehlyah…Even if she couldn’t see the prices to know which pump it was, she didn’t have to be so nasty. She could have said something like “Which one’s your car?” and determined the pump number from there. I can be a real bitch too when I’m sick and someone decides to treat me as sub-human. Go V!
If they use stone-age technology, which doesn’t allow the clerk to see all pumps at the same time and look at the pump number from the price, she could’ve just menitoned it to V. The point was the politeness. I go by the rule “who wants something?” when someone is not polite. If you are rude to me I can swallow some of it if I need something from you, but if you need something from me, and you are impolite, I will not be nice to you - you find the pump number yourself then. Do you want me to pay or not?
Same thing would’ve been if the clerk was polite, but V would’ve started “Yo bitch, hand me a pack of fags, I wanna smoke.” You really think she would’ve smiled, handed a pack of B&H to her and said “there you are ma’am, and have a nice day”?
There’s a lot of exessive politeness in customer services, and I don’t like that either, but still, there’s no excuse to be rude when you are servicing customers who don’t start impolitely. …unless someone forced you to be a slave in a customer service job.
I don’t mean to say that what the lady at the register did was right. she was indeed needlessly impolite and could use an attitude adjustment.
What I do mean is that this does not give V reason to act like a bratty child, you know, the kind she hates so much? Meeting rudeness with rudeness gets you absolutely nowhere. Yes, being sick sucks balls but if she can “be a soldier” when she’s sick, she doesn’t need to use her illness as an excuse to act this way.
Ehlyah, you are totally correct. But I still think you’re a numbnuts.
There are still places that left you pay cash after you pump? :)
Some small-minded people get a smidgeon of power and they run with it any chance that they get.
Huh, for some reason V doesn’t give any advice about the wisdom of holding one’s temper.
I live in New Jersey and we don’t pump our own gas, in fact the attendant looks nervous if you get out of your car…
So when I was reading this, I kept thinking: pumps have numbers?
Fuck you all. VA is probably one of the best websites I’ve seen.
Rock on VA.
@anski: Yes, there are. It really depends on where you live. In my state, pay beforehand is the rule in the cities, where people would piss their pants if you so much as point a finger at them. In the sticks it’s so rare that you can usually just go to another station to avoid the hassle.
Well, I live in Europe and we do pump our own gas here. I’ve never been to a station where they would do it for you.
I would be embarassed if I would need someone else to fill the gastank for me.
When you work as a customer service (and the old lady was), it is easy to get pissed off by small things. Specially when the customer only has to do 2 things. Get the pump number and the money. That´s it.
It´s not hard.
Being sick is no excuse. All you have to do is remember a number.
And, if being sick was your excuse, we should probably hear her side of the story.
Maybe she was angry because noone remembers her pump number.
Anyway, annoying customers suck. Too bad you have to put a smile and treat them like they are humans in order to get their money.
Look. Your vagina is whining and crying about how some old “hag” was rude to you becasue of your incompetence. Well I don’t know what planet you live on, but where I’m from there has to be a connection between the pump and the car. You could have told her what your car looks like (assuming she could see it). Imagine for a minute you were the old lady, and some woman driver (bad enough) walks in without knowing the pump number. Honestly, I would laugh harder if the old lady had blogged about the “dumb PMSing bitch who I owned over the loudspeakers”. Grow up, and place the blame where it deserves: on you. Maybe you need to live in Oregon where they by law have to pump the gas for you.
Ha. Nice going, “soldier.” Sounds like someone needs some “Chicken Soup for the Twat,” and it’s not the old woman who has to deal with the 1000+ numbnuts per day who bitch about how much it costs to fill up their SUV FuckYouMobiles. Teh lolcats gots yur bucket.