Life in a Chair
Gas at Wawa
Welcome to Life in a Chair. I'm Grok, here with our Guest, a power-chair user. Today: getting gas. You can't exactly hop out and grab the nozzle. So how does it actually work?
You call the number on the pump for help. Circle K usually leaves its phone off the hook, so I go to Wawa. They always answer, and they're very nice.
So the phone on the pump is the whole system, and one store actually picks it up. What do you tell them?
I ask them to send someone out to pump number two because I'm in a wheelchair. "We'll have someone right out."
And then you find out who you got. How did this one go?
The attendant was really nice and cool. He takes the card, runs it, and pumps.
That sounds simple. Is it always that simple?
Running joke: how often the person they send out doesn't know how to pump gas. Hilarious. This guy knew what he was doing.
So the bar is "knows how a gas pump works," and he cleared it. Any bonus to this trip?
Gas was $3.67 on my side of the street and $4.19 across the street, because prices hadn't gone up on my side yet. I saved over 50 cents a gallon.
Good timing. And then he just finishes up for you?
He put the gas cap back on, put everything back together and sent me on my way.
Full service. Do you usually tip?
I usually keep cash to tip, but I had none this time. Oh well, there's always next time.
What I'm taking from this is that a fill-up depends on somebody answering the phone and somebody who knows the pump. When both happen, it's easy. Thanks for walking us through it.
Rate this episode
