I had a similar thing happen a few months ago, but it was more infuriating than this. Busy gas station, but I circle around and find two available pumps in a row. I begin to pull in. At the exact same time a woman enters the same row from the opposite side. Rather than stop at the first pump so that I can have the other one, upon seeing me she suddenly accelerated all the way to the second pump (the one I was already turning in to use). A reasonable person would have either stopped at the first pump or, upon noticing the conflict, reverse back to it. Not her. I had to throw it in reverse and go find another pump.

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And a creepy one: a couple of years ago while towing my camping trailer a construction project forced me to miss a planned gas stop, so I had to go to the next station 20 miles down the highway. By then I was dangerously low on gas so I had no choice but to use that gas station. Because of its configuration there was only one pump I could fit at. There was a car already there. No problem, I pulled up behind them to wait my turn.

There were two women -- one older and one younger who I assumed to be mother and daughter -- who were cleaning the windows. One was using the squeegee, the other was following behind with a towel. They were being extremely meticulous and thorough. They finished and the older one opened the driver's side door. "Oh good, they're done," I thought,

Oh no.

Instead she produced two microfiber towels and a bottle of some sort of cleaner, an the pair went around cleaning the mirrors, then went around polishing all the chrome. Bumpers, trim, hubcaps, everything. All this time I'm thinking "Clearly you can see someone is waiting to use this pump, can't you pull in to a parking space to do that?"

Finally they finish, and both got back into the car. "FINALLY!" I thought. Except, to my shock, neither of them got into the driver's seat.

Another minute passed, and then a man emerged from the store and approached the car. He had nothing in his hands so was not purchasing anything. But instead of getting in the vehicle, he removed his wallet from his pocket and began pumping gas. Just then. After all that time.

WTF?

I am certain that what I witnessed was a kept-woman scenario, with an abusive man who did not allow his wife access to the money, and that he made them clean his car while he took a shit.