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Input: Take it easy on me - ltl, ftp, on mobile, etc etc.

So, yesterday morning I'm on my way to class and my gas light comes on, so I pull into a gas station. I'm flustered because it's already been one hell of a morning - running late, screeching toddler in the backseat, rush hour, you get the idea. I'm talking to kiddo (3m) through the window trying to explain yet again that no, throwing a fit does not mean you get candy for breakfast, yes, you have to wait until dinner for candy, no, we don't throw toys in the car. I'm distracted, so it doesn't really click at first why the gas pump won't let me run my card. 

I decide it's not worth it, I'll pull around to another pump that has the card reader working, and hit cancel payment. Displayed on the screen: "Please see cashier to cancel prepay." ....what? Prepay? I didn't prepay? 

I'm one of the only people there. It's a big station that has 24 pumps, and maybe 5 or 6 are taken. The closest person is several stalls away, so it's not like it was an error where the person on the other side of my pump or the space behind me told a clerk the wrong number. For all appearances, it looked like someone just prepaid for this pump and just.... left. But why would someone do that? My best guess is maybe it was one of those "pay it forward" moments... 

Reddit, I'm not proud... but I used the prepay. It was $20 worth, over half a tank for my car. 

It's no excuse. I should have gone in and told the clerk, and made sure it wasn't a mistake. But there was no one, and I was in a hurry, and I'm a single mom doing school full time. I'm not proud. But $20 is $20. 

Reddit.... AITA for taking advantage of an abandoned prepay?

taking abandoned gas