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I work at a gas station. Five minutes after I got on my register tonight I activated a pump car. Said, "Hello pump 11, we'll see you inside to pay when you're done."
I heard the sound the register makes when someone hooks their nozzle back up after pumping and looked up at pump 11. He pumped $46.60 worth of gas. Red car, guy in a baseball cap. He gets back in his car and I stare at him. Anytime someone gets back in the driver's seat after pumping I watch them like a hawk. Sometimes people think their credit card worked when it didn't or they just forget to pay, or... whatever. Those people will come in when you step outside and wave them down.
This guy saw me watching him and got back out of his car and started coming in. Then I had to ring up a customer so I looked away. 30 seconds later I look at the yard again and the car is gone! WHAT! I scan the parked cars but none of them are red. Ugh, a drive-off. Worse, he had faked me out. I knew without even hearing the next part of this story that it was intentional theft.
One of the girls was taking trash out and saw the guy turn around and go back into his car. He waited until her back was turned and then drove away. She said he went into the parking lot of the Wal-Mart next door (the parking lots are sort of connected). And HE HAD TAKEN OFF HIS PLATE.
That's twice in one day people have gone to the Wal-Mart parking lot, taken off their plates, stolen gas from my store, then left through the Wal-Mart lot. I made people prepay the rest of the night I was so pissed off.
I really hate people. I better not get written up for this, there was nothing I could do to prevent it other than endanger my own life. There's nothing you can do to stop a really determined thief.
I heard the sound the register makes when someone hooks their nozzle back up after pumping and looked up at pump 11. He pumped $46.60 worth of gas. Red car, guy in a baseball cap. He gets back in his car and I stare at him. Anytime someone gets back in the driver's seat after pumping I watch them like a hawk. Sometimes people think their credit card worked when it didn't or they just forget to pay, or... whatever. Those people will come in when you step outside and wave them down.
This guy saw me watching him and got back out of his car and started coming in. Then I had to ring up a customer so I looked away. 30 seconds later I look at the yard again and the car is gone! WHAT! I scan the parked cars but none of them are red. Ugh, a drive-off. Worse, he had faked me out. I knew without even hearing the next part of this story that it was intentional theft.
One of the girls was taking trash out and saw the guy turn around and go back into his car. He waited until her back was turned and then drove away. She said he went into the parking lot of the Wal-Mart next door (the parking lots are sort of connected). And HE HAD TAKEN OFF HIS PLATE.
That's twice in one day people have gone to the Wal-Mart parking lot, taken off their plates, stolen gas from my store, then left through the Wal-Mart lot. I made people prepay the rest of the night I was so pissed off.
I really hate people. I better not get written up for this, there was nothing I could do to prevent it other than endanger my own life. There's nothing you can do to stop a really determined thief.
Too bad you can't switch them off as soon as you see a plate-less car.
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Haha, he was driving a Ford F150 too. What a loser. Probably just enough to get him across the street. 
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