$1.16

As far as groceries are concerned, for the most part Matthew and I shop at Smith's. For most of our marriage we have bought gas at Maverick, but recently Smith's has opened up a few gas stations in our area and they have a program that allows you to use the points you collect from shopping at Smith's towards your gas purchases. Today when we went to fill up our car with gas, we got the news that we had earned enough points to save $1.00 per gallon on gas. Yep a whole dollar!! We were VERY excited to say the least!

Matthew lifted the nozzle, put it in the car and started pumping the gas. He then noticed a peice of trash that was in the gas pump and, in the spirit of cleaning up this world he tried to retrieve it. By so doing, within a few short seconds of starting to pump gas the pump stopped and a receipt was printed...$1.16. We were dumbfounded, we saved a dollar per gallon for less than a half a gallon of gas.

We were bummed, but then Matthew looked on his Rewards card and saw that there was a customer service number and he decided to call and see if we could get our rewards back and start over. Lucky for us, the customer service representative was very kind and did in fact reinstate our points. Matthew then proceeded to fill the rest of our tank with a dollar per gallon cheaper gasoline!