GASGATE

IN WHICH THE CHAMPION OF THE WORKING MAN IS FINGERED FOR PETTY LARCENY AT THE PUMPS

Monday afternoon, I drove into town for gas and stopped at the self-service, and the pump wouldn't work. Gas wouldn't come out. So I drove down the hill to another self-service, and I got about a dollar's worth in when a heavy-set woman strode up and said, "You just come from the Stop 'N Shop?" I said I had. "You drove away without paying for your gas," she said.

She was the manager of the station up the hill, and she had chased me in her car. She said I owed her $3.79. I told her that was wrong. The pump...

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