New Tricks Used By Filling Station's Pump Attendant

We all know their old trick where they will
not reset the meter to start from zero when
they want to sell petrol to you. Their new
method is what baffled me and this is
rampant in Asaba area.
The first time it happened to me, I thought
it was actually a mistake as claimed by the
attendant until It repeated several times. I
visited a filling station in Asaba(name
withheld) and there were two persons
serving at the pump. The first person asked
me, "how much do you want to buy" and I
hold her 5 thousand naira. The 2nd guy
proceeded to fill my tank resetting the
meter to zero and not bothering to confirm
the price I want to buy from the lady or
me.To my surprise this guy stopped at 1000
naira and when I asked him why he
stopped he said he thought I said I wanted
to buy 1000 naira( I wondered where he got
that message from cus he did not ask me
or the lady whom I told I want to buy
5000k).
He then pressed some buttons at the meter
as if he wanted to reset the meter to zero,
meanwhile the thing still reads 1000 naira
before he proceeded(if you do not look
well you not see the 1 in front of the zeros)
. Again at 4000 naira He stopped . I now
shouted , bros I told you I wanted to buy
5000 naira. He said that if I add the 4k to 1k
he gave me initially that it will be 5k. I was
confused but when I insisted that he didn't
reset the meter. He quietly completed the
remaining 1k. This happened again in the
same filling station and that was when I
realized it was their game.
I decided to change filling station and to
my greatest surprise they use the same
trick in Asaba and so many people are
falling victims especially those that do not
like to come down from their car while
buying fuel.

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