Today, I was standing in the gas station, pulling out my wallet to pay the $100 of gas I just filled my car with. I opened my wallet and found a note saying "borrowed money for food". FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I lost my wallet while out shopping. Panicked, I retraced my steps and found it at a store, turned in by an employee. Grateful, I opened it to find a note that read, "We left the money but took one dollar for karma." I checked. They did actually take one dollar. FML
Today, I pulled into the gas station to fill up only to realize I had forgot my wallet. By the time I went home, got it, and came back, the price had gone up eleven cents. FML
Today, when paying for gas, I realized I'd forgotten my wallet back home. After a moment of panic, I managed to remember my card number. I paid, blowing the cute cashier's mind, and drove away, before my car started sputtering and slowed to a crawl. I'd used the wrong fuel. FML
Today, I realized I'd lost my wallet when paying for groceries. I had to put all the items back and leave the store feeling so embarrassed in front of everyone. FML
Today, I got robbed at the gas station I work at. After only getting $38 dollars out the register, the guy then stole my purse. It had my rent money in it. FML
Today, I had to drive down to my parents' house. On they way down, I needed to fill up on gas but unfortunately I'd forgotten my wallet at home with all of my cash and credit cards. I then had to call triple A and explain to them in all seriousness how I ran out of gas at the gas station. FML
Today, I went to buy some frozen yogurt. I filled up a cup and the cashier rung it up. The total price was $6.92. I only had $5 in my wallet. So I gave her the $5 bill and went to my car to get more money. Little did I know, there was no money in my car. So I drove off. Leaving the $5 behind. FML
Today, I left my wallet on top of my car when I filled up with gas. I drove away and didn't realize it until I got home. I went back and found it on the side of the road. Empty of my credit cards, pictures and checks. All that was left was my driver's license. FML
Today, I went to the store to buy some groceries. Several hours later I realize that I can't find my wallet. After looking all over my house and then the store parking lot, I had my credit cards cancelled. On the drive home, I feel something under me. It was my wallet. FML
Today, a couple came into the gas station where I work to ask for directions. While I was giving the woman directions (and even writing them down to be as helpful as possible), the man stole my wallet out of my purse that was sitting on the other end of the counter behind a display. FML
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Top comments
AnthonyD86 0
you pay after you pump where your from?
Brave_Sir_Robin 4
$100 to fill up your tank? Wow.
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3pyro3 0
what kind of car do you dribe that it takes you $100 to fill up? and in my part of iowa we pump before we pay at some places and we pay before we pump at others. it all really depends on the gas station
kukopia 0
You put your name, address and car tag # on the back of the note and give that to the cashier w/ a promise to be back with cash ASAP.
ozymandias_fml 0
Where in Iowa? I have lived here for over 2 decades, and the only time I have ever paid first was when I did a pay-at-pump card-charge -- and that technically is swipe-before-pump, pay-after-pump.
helloxmygoodbye 0
I think just about all of eastern Iowa you pay before you pump. The quad cities, Iowa city, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, just to name a few.
Manon_fml 2
Not every country in the world is the usa. Where i'm from, you pump, then you pay, otherwise you don't know how much you owe, doh. And it is like this all over europe. Second, just because gas over there is so ridiculously cheap, doesn't mean we're all that fortunate eta: this was supposed to be a reply to KayraTan
DumbStruck79 0
Well, I live in Spain and here are both systems. People who say going back twice is ineffective; you pay a quantity and the machines stops when you hit that amount. Yeah, you fill up for usually 80% to avoid having to go back, but it does prevent gas-theft so instead of 4 times a month you'd have to go 5 times a month to a gas station. Big deal.
Witchcraft_fml 5
WRONG. It's not like that "all over Europe". Get your facts straight if you're going to try to sound smart.
Maxine17 8
I think you need to calm down :l
internationalmys 0
As mentioned, The US is one of the cheapest places in the world for gas/fuel. $100 to fill a tank on any normal car is definitely the norm.
Manon_fml 2
except that you're wrong. It doesn't work like that everywhere. In the netherlands, you pull up, pump your own gas, go inside, tell them the pump you're at, and you pay. Is that really that hard to understand?????
crystalelizabeth 0
FIRST!! :D I don't know I always felt like doing that :p Anyways... Sucks for you OP hope you get back at them somehow.
DumbStruck79 0
Sucks to be you...
bansheebomber 14
FAIL!
raeannriley 0
I live in Iowa too... and most places you always pump before you pay. including in all of the surrouning states. i've driven from one side of the country to the other... and the trend is, paying before you pump happens on the east coast and high crime areas only! otherwise, pumping first is very common!
janise 2
It's common where you are from. I'm from the Midwest and everywhere I go it's pay then pump and I usually fill up in small towns with little crime. Some areas just prefer it that way b/c some people find it to be more convenient and the risk of people not paying is 0% b/c you can't get gas without paying first.
ozymandias_fml 0
Where in the 'midwest'? I have not seen this in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, the Dakotas, Missouri, Nebraska, or Wisconsin, ranging from 1 streetlight towns, to Chicago, Twin Cities, Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis, etc. I have never once needed to go pay before pumping.
JadedLane 0
I live in Illinois and every single gas pump I've been to (From Chicago all the way out to the farming towns) have been pay before you pump. It's generally how it is done to prevent people from driving off, especially in Chicago, so I'm not quite sure where you've been buying gas in IL :/
courtjester86 8
Look at where he is from guys!!! Not the US!!
effwhyell 0
I'm from Hawkes Bay! Holla. And yeah, everywhere in Hawkes Bay you pay after you pump. It's a region of relatively small towns so people are trusting. Usually if you don't have money to pay they trust for you to come back or hold onto your car while you go and get the money. I moved to a bigger city where you have to pre pay, so as someone else said, it's relative to areas with higher crime rates. And the cost to fill up your car depends on what kind of car you have, obviously. And I think OP has a bit of a gas guzzler... it only costs $40 to fill mine up.