I witnessed a crime today. I had gone to lunch at a convenience store that had microwavable hamburgers (yummy) and as I was paying, the lady behind the counter had her attention focused on a man who was pumping gas into his car. She asked me to wait. So I watched the man as well. At one point he looked into the store and saw both of us watching him. Then another patron came in to pay for his gas and the original man jumped into his car and drove off. The lady behind the counter ran outside and got the license number from the car. She came in saying that she knew she should have insisted on a pre-pay. Hindsight! He got away with almost $38 in gas. She may have been the owner of this little neighborhood store that sells microwavable hamburgers, TCBY yogurt and gasoline. I am not sure. She was certainly angry with herself for allowing the theft to occur. The thief was driving a small economy car, a little red Honda. Wow! $38 to fuel that little car. It made me wonder who was stealing from whom. I decided that the biggest thief is the gas companies that have price gouged their product into record profits. The Honda driver is a thief certainly. The cashier is his victim. But all of us who have to pay the hugely inflated prices to fuel our vehicles are victims of the likes of Exxon, Shell and all the other oil companies that have taken advantage of today's situation.
Posted by Rita at September 11, 2005 09:24 PM