How To Extinguish A Friendship

I’m a teenager working at a gas station for my first job. I see a guy smoking while pumping. I get on the PA and say:

Me: “Sir! You gotta extinguish the butt while pumping!”

He responded by flicking his lighter and holding it up to the hose.

I call the cops. Immediately.

The cops find him (we’re in a high-risk area, so they’re always patrolling nearby). No idea what they said to him, but the guy was super angry and called my manager trying to get me fired. Turns out they were friends.

Customer: “Who’s the a**hole who called the cops on me?”

Manager: “What did you do?”

Customer: “What do you mean, what did I do? I didn’t do anything!”

Manager: “Look, dude, I know my guy. He wouldn’t call the cops if he didn’t have a reason.”

The customer mumbles through a version of what he did.

Manager: “So you were putting an open flame to a machine that spits out combustible liquids? You f****** jack-a**! I would have called the cops on you!”

He was a good boss.

The cops didn’t arrest him, but the boss told him not to come back and trespassed him from the station.