My brother moved today. Because he's the only 28 year old on the planet without a drivers license, I got the call to take care of the truck rental and all that jazz. Brothers help brothers move so I spent most of today fulfilling that obligation.
UHaul demands that their trucks are returned with the same amount of gas as they left the lot with or you're hit with a $20 surcharge in addition to the price of the gas you used. I didn't use much gas so I pulled into an Esso and asked the attendant for five bucks worth of diesel. He found this to be rather amusing. He kept laughing and asking me if I really only wanted five dollars worth of diesel in the truck. Even as he pumped me $5 worth he was laughing to himself as if this was the most absurd request he had ever received from a patron.
I stuck to my guns and didn't bow to his humiliation tactics. I knew five dollars would put the gage to the 3/4 full mark and I'd escape UHaul without that dreaded surcharge. As I saw it, it was a win-win scenario. I only had to cough up a fin and the attendant got a good ol' chuckle on a cold Saturday afternoon.
