Community Gulf

**This review is for the Gulf station at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland.**
Moments ago, I went to a neighborhood gas station, expecting to (uneventfully) put air in a flat tire. I live in downtown Silver Spring and decided to go to the closest station that I knew had an air pump. I (regrettably) chose to stop at the aforementioned Gulf station. With my hazard lights on, I pulled up to the air pump. Because I only had cash (and no coins), I stopped and asked the attendant to break a dollar for me. He gave me four quarters, each of which I put into the machine. However, the air pump did not work, so I returned to his kiosk to ask for his assistance.
Irritably, he accompanied me to the air pump and immediately accused me of having not put any money into the machine. Because I am a lawyer and have never stolen anything in my LIFE (let alone, lied about paying for AIR, for which, moments before, I’d gotten change FROM HIM), I was highly insulted and offered to call the police for him, since he believed I stole a dollar’s worth of air. He offered to get more change and then returned to the machine. After putting one quarter in, the pump turned on, and he turned to me and again accused me of stealing — but this time, he accused me of putting only $.75 into the machine, and not $ 1.
I put air into my tire, and because the attendant at the Gulf station on Georgia and Colesville was apparently in dire need of money, and to assure him that I neither attempted to nor need to steal any amount of money from him or from anyone, I gave him an extra dollar for good measure.
To satisfy my curiosity, I called the vendor of the air pump. As it turns out, the machine requires $ 1.25 — not $ 1, as the management at the Gulf station purports.