A funny letter:

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to an oil company that somehow neglected to post purchases to a customer's charge card.

Credit Card Center
P. O. Box 6xxx0
Des Moines, IA 503xx-xxx0


September 19, 2011

Dear Sirs,
Last year when I closed out my gasoline credit card with you, I neglected to do something. I neglected to thank you for the $45.00 of gas that I purchased a couple of years ago that you never charged me for. I’m sure it was simply an oversight or an error on your part, as I cannot imagine you simply giving your product away in these times. But I do appreciate you doing it in this case, as I’m sure it significantly impacted the billions you are now raking in while overcharging people for your gasoline. It was certainly an oversight on my part not to thank you for the free gas, for which I deeply apologize. Again, I thank you for the free gas, and I hope this takes care of the matter.


Sincerely,

Rxxxx
Acct No. 13xxnwn999-youfigureitout.


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[hunter]

1. That actually happened to me once and I felt bad about it.

When I inquired the gasoline credit card company sent me a letter that they had no record of the transaction. So I returned to the gas station, feeling like I'd cheated them out of ten gallons of gas.

The clerk just looked at me like I was crazy.

This was in the 'seventies when they'd put your card in the little non-electronic machines with the carbon paper forms that would make three or four copies embossed by your card and verified by your signature.

It was my first credit card and I didn't want to screw up my credit.

I did eventually screw up my credit hugely here in twenty-first century U.S.A. by bringing a credit card to a Hospital Emergency Room.