To all the gas station owners out there who now charge $1 for tire air, fuck off. Its not enough that you charge over $2 for a regular sized beverage, and $7 for a basic car wash you now have to charge for air. This is something that was always free and in my opinion a part of the service station experience, how much are you going to charge to use the squeegy to clean our windows.
—looking for fucking change under my car seat.
This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2009.
The money goes to charity. After they finish paying for the fancy coin operation machines first, I figure.
yeah, having the public pay a corporation’s charitable donations is great PR.
Sure is, Nice Goin’! Ugh I hate it when companies do that. They use their customers to fund their charitable efforts and then ride on the “we’re so socially responsible” train.
In any event, if it’s the place that’s blue and likes canoes you can actually go in and ask them to turn on the pump without putting $$$ in.
I refuse to support corporate charity strategies when they usually take an admin fee plus get a huge tax break in the process. I’ve rather send my money directly to the charity itself than have it go through a corporate third-hand filter.
Since when was going to a gas station about having good service? Honestly though, gas stations charge for everything; your first mistake is paying 7 bucks for a bleedin car wash. with all of the dirt and crap all over the roads now, it’s pointless.
Last I checked this wasn’t a new occurrence?
I remember at least one station in Halifax charging 7 years ago. Although I suppose it could’ve just been a rogue outfit not conforming to any kind of chain policies. God damn, maybe it was, I ate a sandwich there and it was gross, and than they switched from an RBC machine to some rape-you-in-the-ass-with-fees ATM. The beef jerky is too expensive, the shit was all dried up! They don’t get new issues of Harpers fast enough and the pr0n mags needs more variety. Wait, what?
I’m sure they’re using the whole ‘you’re paying for the energy to use the pump to fill your tire’ speal too…. like paying for the bottle and not the water.
If I could blow the thing up myself, I would… but it’s not a fucking balloon.
I have also found that when I go out of town, only a few places seem to charge (usually the big outfits like irving and petro).
I suppose in this day and age where we have people in cities paying for air (gas stations/oxygen bars) and toilets (European/Asian cities) anything is possible. I’ve heard it before… only two things are certain, death and taxes.
Once you start charging for something that ought to be free, its downhill from there. Are they going to start charging me for a napkin too?
I heard some macdonalds charge for sauce.
No, I’m pretty sure they don’t. Rest easy fatties.
They’ll charge you for nugget sauce if you don’t buy nuggets.
Yea, for being weird enough to eat nugget sauce straight up.
just another way for companies to add revenue by nickle and dimeing the consumer to death. goddamnit, the cafeteria at my workplace charges for plastic utensils and paper plates if you dont purchase food. regardless of the fact that you may buy your meal 4 out of 5 days of the week.