i have a fuel card
allocated to me
with an unlimited credit limit on it
so i can basicly fill up every van in the fleet, day in, day out, for a month and no one bats an eyelid as it all gets paid form one central account from head office (they work out how much fuel should be required for our office, then add 25% margin for over usage) and this is paid for at the end of the month so no need to fuck around
if it goes above this limit i get a phone call asking if it's been stolen, but it's only happened once in the past 8 years so it's not common
so i gave it to one of the guys to fill up with yesterday and they said it had reached its limit
wtf?
it hasn't GOT a limit (well, it has, but only if they've not paid it up)
so i asked the attendant what the score was and he was like "i'm keeping the card, you must leave your vehicle here until you can pay up"
"don't i get 7 days to pay for it?"
"no, we don't oeperate that scheme any more, it's now 24 hours"
"so we can give you our details and then go and come back tomorrow?"
"no, we've stopped the 24 hour one as well"
"?"
"we have had too many people drive off and not return"
"and that's my fault why exactly?"
"don't know, next please"
now, this was the same fucktard who screwed me out of a tenner a good while back so we wern't on the most friendly of terms
then some other doofus came trotting out from round the back and asked the guy when he'd last filled up
"this morning, on this card"
"you sure?"
"here's the recipt"
"oh, um, hang on then"
out comes the manager
who said "if you can write your name and contact details down you can come abck tomorrow and pay for it"

so why did have to wait half an hour after i'd made the initial fuss to hear this

so then i went to another petrol station and the card worked fine

twats

or the other day, some lad from sky calls up and says "do you want to pay less money for your phone?"
"sure"
"ok the, once we've done this, all we need to do is contact your old provider and swap you over"
"but i'm already with sky"
"oh, um, right then"
"......"
"well, yes, i see that you are, hang on"
<on hold>
"right then, um, i've got to tell you other stuff as well"
"you're new at this malarky aren't you"
"yes "
"don't worry, i'm in a good mood today so i'll let you off wth the deal you've given me "

and so i have now got half price line rental, free calls 24/7 to canada, america, australia, etc (within reason)