11-09-2018, 09:25 AM
Eh - an us visiting the U.S. of A from Down Under or the Great White have postal codes (vs. zip codes). None of the pumps I have visited understand that. So the station clerk just says, "... uh, Canada? Yeah, sorry, no problem, just a sec, ... ok ... the pump good - go pump. Sorry again for that."
The experience is a bit klunky. I understand the crime preventative nature, but in Canada we simply enter a PIN code at the pump (or wave the card in other cases).
What? The pump didn't run out of paper? You actually got paper!
-30C already in the Oh? Come on ... yer not that far north, and it's only November. ;D
The experience is a bit klunky. I understand the crime preventative nature, but in Canada we simply enter a PIN code at the pump (or wave the card in other cases).
(11-09-2018, 03:42 AM)Nortoon_imp Wrote: Its windy night at 30C below and I want to top up my car for the week.
I remove my glove and insert my points card that saves me 10 cents a liter, and wait and wait.
Remove the card quickly it flashes and I do so, and put it in my wallet.
Draw out my credit card and try to tap it.
Long pause and the pump flashes to insert it. I do so and wait.
Long pause and it flashes do I want a car wash.
At 30C below. I don't think so. Push the button an wait.
It flashes enter your pin, which I do.
Long pause until it flashes for me to remove my card.
Which I do, and it immediately starts loudly beeping at me to lift the handle and select grade of gas I need. Could I put my card and wallet away first you noisy slow thinking tin moron?
Pump my gas and put the handle back.
The screen reads you have selected a printed receipt.
Yup I want it, and I wait and wait.
It finely rolls out a foot of paper flapping in the cold wind which I tear off with my frozen hand.
What? The pump didn't run out of paper? You actually got paper!
-30C already in the Oh? Come on ... yer not that far north, and it's only November. ;D