Reporters Notebook (Gettysburg Times: 032908): "Gas"

I was in line Wednesday morning at Salim’s Mini-Mart in Arendtsville behind a teenage lad who was trying to purchase a carton of eggs, a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk with a shoebox full of spare change.
All I wanted was a cup of coffee and a twinkie.
Out of nowhere, a scraggly-haired woman bolted through the store’s doors, butted in line, and hurled two dollars and a couple of pennies at the cashier. Then she left.
“Please don’t ever do this again,” the cashier told the teenager as he counted the box of spare change.
As the teenager departed the store, the cashier looked down at the counter and spotted to the two dollars and three cents.
“What’s this?” he asked.
The woman actually purchased $2.03 cents worth of gasoline.“
That won’t even get her to Biglerville,” the cashier quipped.
I doubt it got her out of the parking lot.
My coffee and twinkie cost more than her gas bill.
~ Scot Andrew Pitzer