They Don’t HAVE To Give You Free Anything

There was a [Convenience Store] by a hospital that gave free coffee and fountain drinks to EMS, fire personnel, police, and hospital staff on duty. I had a coworker whose ambulance sat at least two miles north from this [Convenience Store] but always managed to find his way to this particular one.

Me: “Isn’t the [Convenience Store] at [Location] closer to your unit?”

Coworker: “Yes, but I don’t want to go there. I don’t want to pay a dollar for coffee!”

He would literally have a fit if he couldn’t go there during his shift, and he’d spend the whole time complaining about how the [Convenience Store] closest to him should be giving him free coffee.