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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/cheesy_friend on 2024-11-16 01:50:41+00:00.

I work at a gas station in Oregon, with half the pumps being self-serve and half being mini-service, which means that we’re there to pump your gas for you but not obligated to do anything else, like wash your windshield. But we do when we’re asked, to be nice.

There’s this lady that comes in almost every day and gets like $5 or $10 worth of gas, asks us to wash her windshield, and never tips. She’s really weird about it like it’s her little power trip. Last time she was in, it was raining, and she still smugly asked me to wash her windshield. And being hardcore customer service guy, I did, but then I thought twice about it after the fact. I go that length for nice folks, but she’s not nice, she’s bitchy and whiny and weird.

So windshield lady comes in today and hands me $9 for gas and then as usual asks me to wash her windshield with a smug look on her face. I said I would, but then by the time I got back out, there were a good 8 cars on the pumps. I told her I’m sorry I can’t do your windshield right now. It’s too busy. Well, she gets really snotty with me and has me stop the pump, which means that since she paid cash, she needs her change. OK, you’ll get your change.

I went inside and told my coworker I need the change on pump 2, but make sure to vend extra pennies from the safe and put 50 of them in there, loose. He looked at me like I was crazy, but then I explained who it was for, and so he gladly handed me over the change.

By the way, we have to wait in line inside the attached convenience store with other customers to get change for gas. Because our pump guy often doesnt have their own till open for a shift. So as I was standing in line to get windshield lady’s change, she came inside and was death-glaring our other customers and then must have seen me waiting and went back out to her car.

She was already getting snotty with me the moment I walked back out to her car. So put the 3 dollar bills in her hand and then an absolute cascading assload of pennies and a few nickels on them. “Sorry, we’re short on silver,” I said.

The look on her face–that was the most satisfying use of pennies ever. She sounded like Mr Lumbergh from Office Space. She was still stammering when she was driving away and I didn’t listen to or identify a single word she said. Hoping this will discourage her from coming back. But if it doesn’t, then we will once again have a shortage of silver change. Because alas, that is the economy that we are in, times are tough.