A twofer: Crustys told off and NAT hauled off

Today was an interesting day for me.

First, I got some dumb ass motherfucker wanting gas on a pump. Tried to set it only to get the message: "Pump in use, prepay not allowed". I ask him to press the cancel button on his pump so that I could set it. As he starts to walk away I spy in his hand an open can of BUD LIGHT. He walks halfway to his pump then comes back and tells me that it's not being used, not even following my direction. I tell him thrice more to press the button so I could set it; was ignored thrice more. So then I tell him that he can take his money and leave as he is ignoring what I ask him to do AND that he has open booze on my property.

Two minutes later, his dumb ho comes and wants me to set the pump, but I also refuse her. Then she's all like, "If you don't want my money, then there are other gas stations!" It's not that I didn't want their money, it's the fact that these sad excuses for life had OPEN BOOZE on my store's property! Just about every place here has a sign stating the open booze is prohibited on the store's property, and I'm not about to lose my job because these morons can't even be smart enough to stay home and get wasted.

I told one of the managers about it, and he told me that I did the right thing by refusing them service.

Second, I totally got someone arrested today.

The guy that got arrested had been 86'd from my store's property in the past because he had been caught panhandling both for food and money. Despite being told he was persona non grata, he kept coming back and conning people into buying him food or giving him money.

After his third con (that I witnessed) of the day, the guy that had bought him food came back and asked me about him. I gladly told this man all about that guy and he told me thank you for the heads up on it so that in the future he wouldn't fall for it again. Cue an hour or so later, and this con artist shows back up.

I call for our security guard. He comes out, I fill him in. He goes and gets the sheriff's deputy that works at our store. The two of them talk to this guy, who then runs off into a local apartment complex. I thought that they lost this guy yet again. When I later see the security guard, he told me that they got the guy's address and sent another deputy to arrest him for the fact that 1) he was trespassing, and 2) the last time that they had an altercation with this guy, he knocked the sheriff's deputy down.

Best day ever that I had, two morons get owned by me or with help from me, and I totally didn't get into any trouble!

-LaserSpawn

Comments

[Greenhouse Gal]

That always feels good, doesn't it?

It's been years since I've worked at a gas station, but I still remember the day I got someone arrested. I had a crusty come in, clearly wasted. I told him I didn't think he should be driving, offered to call anyone he wanted to come pick him up or a cab. I offered several times, and he repeatedly refused, even after I told him I was going to call the cops on him if he drove off. I then watched him pull out of the parking lot into rush hour traffic, almost hit a car, with his lights off (it was dark). I wavered a bit, then called the cops.

The local PD called me back a bit later, thanked me, told me they'd picked up a bit down the road, he was wasted, and it was far from his first OWI.

Made me feel good, and totally made up for the time I called the cops on an asshat I suspected of shoplifting--that I was totally wrong on (luckily, I didn't get in trouble for that one, even though I probably should have).

[LaserSpawn]

Greenhouse, it totally was! i was all like "fuck yea! one less fuckface to deal with!" i was totally sure that they lost the NAT since my store is a grocery store with a gas station and catching the NATs at the gas station is pretty hard. last time i got some dumbasses arrested was back in april when i had two shit-for-brains NATs swipe like 100 bucks of pennzoil. they were dumb enough to have the nose of their card faced away from me so that i got a PERFECT view of their plate. i had a pretty good description of one of the guys too. only thing that sucked about that one was the fact that when they drove off, they ran over one bottle of oil and it was EVERYWHERE! took my coworker and i an hour and a half to clean that up. it was not pretty, but i was thankful for the fact that it was not summertime!

[LSinNW]

Good job on the panhandling douche! I used to live in a big city and in front of one of the upper crust grocery stores was a guy who did that for a living. He made around 30K a year, just from asking for donations! Good for you.