sighting at the c-store in the middle of nowhere

[Slave to the Phone]

Scene: Memorial Day, a 3 day weekend for those of use who are lucky enough to get it off.

We live in BFA, but also in a travel corridor and Prescott is a very popular place for flatlanders to visit over long weekends.

Me: sitting at home in my jammies getting ready to binge watch movies when I realized that we were out of popcorn

Hubby didn't care about my lack of greasy food, so I put clothes on and drove to the store, grabbed popcorn and went to stand in the single cashier line.

Which didn't move because someone from out of town tried to pump gas using a credit card which wouldn't allow her to due so.

Second act: screaming and yelling at the poor clerk because her card didn't work.

Third act, me speaking up and telling her to stop yelling at the cashier over something that was out of her control. This of course resulted in her attempting to vent her rage at me.

Forth act, the owner showed up and basically told the SC to gtfu and never come back again.

Its a shame that the SC couldn't be bothered to pay cash for her gas, because I saw a lot of it in her wallet. Its also a shame that she was only able to pay for a couple of gallons of gas and needed to get through that 60 mile stretch of desert to find another place to get gas unless she paid 50 cents a gallon more.

[Pixelated]

Its also a shame that she was only able to pay for a couple of gallons of gas and needed to get through that 60 mile stretch of desert to find another place to get gas unless she paid 50 cents a gallon more.

Hope she had fun spending the night with the desert denizens ...

[Mr Hero]

Sounds like you had a reason to open that popcorn immediately.

[An Haddock]

Did she not pay for her gas? Because if she had ample cash in her wallet she sounds like a scammer.

"It's YOUR fault my credit card doesn't work! How DARE you! Now I'm stuck here and I need to be somewhere else saving orphans/rescuing maidens/fighting the Ottoman Empire..."
"It's only a few dollars in gas. Just... go. Go."
"I'm never coming here again!"

[Sliceanddice]

Did she not pay for her gas? Because if she had ample cash in her wallet she sounds like a scammer.
"

Arizona is a pay before you pump state, so nope.

[WishfulSpirit]

Arizona is a pay before you pump state, so nope.

Somehow being stuck in the desert seems a more apt punishment.

[dalesys]

Somehow being stuck in the desert seems a more apt punishment.

But pity the poor vultures!

[Slave to the Phone]

Turkey Buzzards if you don't mind!

From what I heard during the very one-sided "conversation", the SC had used her CC to start pumping gas and it cut her off after only 5 dollars. This was UNACCEPTABLE!!! How was she supposed to get all the way to Phx on a gallon of gas?!?! (Gas at that store was 2.37 a gallon so a little under 2 gallons. My little econobox could have done it easily as long as there were no delays longer than 10 minutes, her full sized SUV? Not so much.) Had to get home because she had a sick child waiting for her and didn't have time to waste getting this straightened out. It was obviously the clerks fault and she needed to FIX it right now!

I saw her in her wallet when she shoved her card back in, she had plenty of cash to buy a couple more gallons of gas, but no, she was outraged and would go die in the desert or something before compromising on this injustice. AND she was never coming back again.

Pre-show entertainment Sadly, putting clothes on during a jammie day totally negates everything. I was going to get all upset at hubby for forcing me to put clothes on, but he was forgiven when I returned to find a DVD containing a couple of my favorite movies sitting on my keyboard. (Re-Animator, I could watch that every month and still laugh, Hellraiser and Children of the Corn. Also, Never Sleep Again, but I was never into the Elm Street series because it seemed to jump the shark on the very first one.)

[Lovecats]

Arizona is a pay before you pump state, so nope.

My husband always uses cash to pay whenever we travel and pay before you pump is no problem. He usually figures out about what he needs & goes in and pays. If he's a little short no problem. If he pays over he goes in and they give him change.

[Lovecats]

Scene: Memorial Day, a 3 day weekend for those of use who are lucky enough to get it off.

We live in BFA, but also in a travel corridor and Prescott is a very popular place for flatlanders to visit over long weekends.

My oldest and her husband moved down to Prescott about 3 yrs ago. They love it. But if she doesn't keep talking about finding scorpions in her house (mostly in the bathtubs) I'm not so sure I ever want to visit.

[Kit-Ginevra]

I was going to get all upset at hubby for forcing me to put clothes on

Seconded....

[Slave to the Phone]

As usual, Kit has the last word on the subject.

Lovecats, you might want to tell the kids to check the holes where their plumbing comes into the house. Chances are very good that is where the scorpions are coming in. Even if they don't see any gaps, they should use silicon caulking all around the pipes and anything else that comes into their home cause scorpions are like cockroaches and can get into the smallest cracks.

Or, if she's in an area that allows, she could get a shed, convert that into a hen-house and then get a flock of chickens. They will eat the scorpions and she will get free eggs.

Prescott is truly beautiful. I can see why the flatlanders love to visit, but sometimes their city attitudes sometimes annoy us country folk.

[Sliceanddice]

Prescott is ok but not my scene, I rather hit the motorcycle cities like Bisbee and Jerome, or even Show Low

[Slave to the Phone]

If you are riding in AZ, you absolutely MUST go to Prescott just so you can ride down the White Spars into Skull Valley and stop at the old whore house for refreshment. The ride is amazing, the building hasn't been restored since it was built and has a lot of entertaining features...and only one single restroom.

Blacktop parking lot, so if you come in the summer be sure to bring something to put under your kickstand to spread out the weight. Soft blacktop is the main reason that parked bikes just up and fall over.

Then head back to Phx via Wickenburg.

Its an amazing day trip with beautiful scenery, twisty turny roads and plenty of places to stop and powder your nose.

[Kit-Ginevra]

stop at the old whore house for refreshment. The ride is amazing...

Duly noted