Did you ever go to get gas and not have enough money to pay your bill? How about having your credit card decline? Well this is the story of when this happened to me.
My name is Holly and I was on my way to my boyfriend's house. I had noticed that my fuel was on the low side. I was driving on the highway and was hoping I'd not run out of gas. There was a sign up ahead that said there was a gas station in the next ten miles. I was hoping I'd be able to make it. I always drove with a full tank, but I guess I wasn't paying attention.
I was meeting my boyfriend's parents for the first time and was a little pre-occupied on how that would be going down. My boyfriend and I have been dating for the last six months. My boyfriend Tim was working and was not able to pick me up and drive together to his parents. I told him I'd meet him there.
When I happened to look down at my fuel gauge, I noticed I was running almost empty. I drove for the next ten miles, really hoping I'd not run out of gas. I pulled into a Shell station. The service attendant came to my window.
"What can I get you miss?"
"Can you please fill it regular unleaded gas."
The attendant then went and filled my tank up. I was on empty so I needed a lot of gas.
"Okay that'll be fifty dollars."
I handed him my credit card and he went to go run my card. He was gone for maybe ten minutes and came and approached my window.
"I'm sorry miss this card declined. Do you have another card, or do you have cash?"
"I can't believe it declined. I've never even used that card."
"I tried running the card three different ways and it declined. Maybe you need to get in touch with the credit card company. But, for now you owe me fifty dollars."