A large regional grocery store chain owns convenience stores that have gas pumps. The chain has loyalty cards that allow you to get a few cents off at the pumps. And, if you buy other company gift cards at the grocery store, you get points for additional savings — up to a dollar a gallon for up to thirty-five gallons.
I often bought gift cards for restaurants where my wife and I regularly ate for the gas points and paid for the meals with the cards. I was saving quite a bit on gas.
The first time my wife and I both drove to our local [Convenience Store] to get gas, I pulled up on one side of the pump and she on the other side. I filled my truck with about twenty gallons and proceeded to insert the nozzle into her car.
A clerk came running out to the pump yelling at us.
Clerk: “You can only fill one vehicle with points!”
Me: “Where does it say that on the pumps, the marquee, or anywhere on the building?”
Clerk: “Well, that’s the rule. You can’t fill another vehicle at the same time.”
Me: “Unless you can show me where it says that, get out of my face.”
Clerk: “I will call the police.”
Me: “Do it.”
He went back inside. The police never came. We kept doing that same format until the grocery chain eventually sold off their convenience stores and the loyalty cards no longer worked.
It was good while it lasted.
