All I’ve been hearing on the news lately is that the gas is going to be skyrocketing in the very near future. Well, being someone who already hates paying $1.99 a gallon I decided to go and fill up my car tonight. I go to the gas station and I pull up to pump #8; I open my gas cap, stick the nozzle, flip the lever up on the gas pump and I hit the “pay inside” button. My gas pump does it’s thing and then the nice little screen on it says “Ready; Start Pumping.” Well, apparently I’m retarded or something because at that moment on the loudspeaker the guy running the gas station registers inside gets on the loudspeaker and says… “Ready on pump 8 with the red car.”
Who in the hell is that for anyway? First off I can read and I saw the little thing on the pump telling me that I could pump my gas so I pretty much figured that I could. Now if I’m looking at the pump and I see that I’m on pump 8, why did he say in the red car? I’m not in a real big gas station, so I’m assuming there is not a second pump 8 because that would be stupid and confusing, so did he think if he said ready on pump 8 in the yellow car I would have been confused and had to leave? I guess I’m just too old school because I’m used to going to the gas station and doing my thing and only having the clerk bother me when I pay.
I found out Friday that we are going to be getting lottery tickets back in our store. What the fuck for is the question I have to ask. See, we have tried to sell lottery tickets in the past and we never really sold that many because our corporate office wants us to sell the scratch off ones but not the major ones like Megabucks and Powerball. You know what? Those are the ones that most people want to buy. Nobody gives a shit about the instant tickets anymore because most of them only have a top prize of $1,000 or so. Nevertheless, since my corporate office doesn’t have a clue they decide that we need those back in our store. It just amazes me that corporate never listens to the individual stores for input considering that we are here and we know a little better than someone sitting their ass behind a desk what we sell. Oh well, if everything plays out like I want it to, maybe I can be out of there around the start of summer. Damn, that would be too nice.