On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:54:21 -0500, philo wrote:

On 04/18/2017 08:28 AM, Micky wrote:
OT, maybe.

I'm reniling a tiny little car, a Kia Picanto. I haven't looked up
how big the gas tank is but when I fill it, the debit card charge is
about $100. And I'm told gas is about $6 a gallon, which would make
the tank about 16 gallons, less if it's 6.45/gal for example.
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Your credit card company can help you if there was fraud...which means
that if your card was stolen you could get the purchase canceled.
As I look down further I see your charge was $53 which is probably about
right. Seems the credit card company was good enough to see you were
charged twice and only held you liable for once.






Yesterday, the gas pump wanted more from me than the card, but I'm not
sure what it wanted. I gave it my passport number but it didn't have
room for all 8 or 9 digits. Sometimes the pump wants the license
plate number, but we didn't get that far. The gas station attendant
was sure it wanted my ID number, not the license plate, and the
closest I have to an ID is the passport, and I know that sometimes it
wants the passport number, or at least it settles for that. (who knows
if it really verifies any of these numbers!)



When I purchase gas, the pump sometimes asks for my zip code so it was
probably just doing that. Since you were in Canada it might have asked
"postal code" .

Mikey's in Canada????? Didn't know that. I thought he was in Europe
somewhere........ Gas isn't quite $6 a gallon here - about $5.08
canadian per Canadian gallon right now - closer to $3.05 US per yankee
gallon.