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Around here it's usual for the petrol price to go up around 15 cents on Wednesday afternoon and slowly come down again over the next week (so Wednesday morning is the cheapest time of week to fill up, and Wednesday afternoon the dearest). That didn't happen last week but prices keep going down as stations try to under-cut each other (today we went down a whopping 0.2 cents per litre).
Anyway, as a result prices are at the lowest they've been all year. Which really brings out the entitlement whores, hagglers and whingers. Such as:
SC: "One cheap car wash, oh wait they're not cheap any more. I'm sure it was cheap last week." (the price is the same as it was last week, and is the cheapest in 6 suburbs)
SC (buying cigarettes): "How about giving me the 25 pack for the price of the 20s?" (how about I give you the 20s for the price of the 50s instead?)
SC: "That's highway robbery! I'll get my revenge, I'll open my own servo and rip people off!" (then pays full price)
SC: "But can't you give me a discount?"
non-SC: "Hey doofus, this isn't [local discount furniture store where prices are nogitable]" (yay!)
SC: "The newspaper used to be 70 cents, can't you just let me buy it for the old price?" (the newspaper has cost more than 70 cents for over a decade, and the last price rise was over 2 years ago)
and so on. I'm hoping the price will go up earlier than usual this week.
Anyway, as a result prices are at the lowest they've been all year. Which really brings out the entitlement whores, hagglers and whingers. Such as:
SC: "One cheap car wash, oh wait they're not cheap any more. I'm sure it was cheap last week." (the price is the same as it was last week, and is the cheapest in 6 suburbs)
SC (buying cigarettes): "How about giving me the 25 pack for the price of the 20s?" (how about I give you the 20s for the price of the 50s instead?)
SC: "That's highway robbery! I'll get my revenge, I'll open my own servo and rip people off!" (then pays full price)
SC: "But can't you give me a discount?"
non-SC: "Hey doofus, this isn't [local discount furniture store where prices are nogitable]" (yay!)
SC: "The newspaper used to be 70 cents, can't you just let me buy it for the old price?" (the newspaper has cost more than 70 cents for over a decade, and the last price rise was over 2 years ago)
and so on. I'm hoping the price will go up earlier than usual this week.