About four weeks ago I called in to my local PS to put some petrol in my car, I rarely use this PS as it's very expensive. I normally fill up at my local Asda.
I bought £10 worth of petrol - just to see me through till I could get to my normal filling up place. I also bought a packet of crisps.
Came up to £10.39, I paid on my card.
The following day I went in to asda and half filled the tank up.
My Dh used the car and didn't bother to replace the petrol so one week later when I got in the car it was basically running off fumes so I called in local PS and put another £10 in. When I went in to the PS shop the owner went in to the back and came out with a receipt of my last transaction. He said that last time I was in the card machine was broke for one hour and did not register the petrol amount/cost and I only paid for the crisps. The recept he had shown 0.39p he was quite relaxed and said he was just showing me. I offered to pay it back. I only had £10 note on me so said I will Bob in soon and pay it. He never once asked for it. Seemed relaxed about it.
Went home checked my online banking - yep the 39p from the PS was there.
I totally forgot to go to the PS the next day or for the rest of the week. It's not in the direction I normally go and I'd been asda and put petrol in so I didn't need to go local PS.
Anyway - today I went in as me and Dh have been sharing again and not replaced so had to call in local PS to put a little in just to get me out of the village. When I went to the pump it wasn't working. I went in to the PS shop and Bobbed my head in and said ' is the pump not working?'
The owner said 'I turned it off as you owe me £10'
I said ' oh god yes, I'll pay it now'
He said ' yes but you let me down. You said you would pay next day' (I never)
I said ' Ok, I forgot, but will pay now'
He carried on saying "yes but let me down, where was my money'
I said " hang on, I tried paying buy your machine was broke, I never stole it, like I said I'll pay now'
He said ' but you let me down, you said you would pay ...
At which point I walked out of the shop.
There were people in the shop and I felt he was trying to act as if I had purposely stole petrol or tried to get out of paying.
Not sure what to do know tbh.
Should I expect the police to come? 
AIBU?
Or is the petrol station owner?
Cloudstasteofmash · 23/04/2016 14:21
I need wine too, it's like I've stepped into a parallel universe!! Yanbu op don't mind the rest of them 
Just stop by with £10 and a crappy box of biscuits
No chance! He should send me a bunch of his shite petrol court flowers
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for diddle 
I will go in and pay for it. Only so I don't get stuck. But my level headedness isn't very great at the moment due to being pregnant
If the card machine had been at fault rather than a clerical error, the card provider would have simply credited the money back to the PS. They can also do this when someone has been overcharged. No need for these sort of song and games.
I expect he switched the the pump off because the last time you went in you made the excuse of only having a tenner on you. He didn't want to get caught out by that again and needed to make sure you paid up.
He was wrong to go on about it and make you embarrassed but as you say you have a severe resting face (or words to that effect) I expect you were giving off really negative body language.
I do think you were BU, you should have gone back sooner. But you seem to not want to hear alternative opinions 
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He was wrong to go on about it and make you embarrassed but as you say you have a severe resting face (or words to that effect) I expect you were giving off really negative body language
That has just properly made me laugh
Pregnant with a face that frightens children. I would stick to Pay at the Pump
Good idea sparkling , I never have this issue at asda
This is one of those threads where I realise that a large number of Mumsnetters live in an alternative reality. I can't believe the OP is getting a hard time about HIS error. And people suggesting that the police might come knocking are delusional. OP did not steal anything, and if she had never frequented this particular PS again, nothing would have come of this. We discovered weeks after our wedding that the shop had accidentally given us something like 29 bottles of white wine for free and only charged us for 1. If this had been a small local business I would have gone back to fix this, but it was a large chain so I clapped my hands gleefully and left it. Four years later I'm still waiting for a knock on the door from the police
UANBU.
He sounds like a self important dick. Why should you go in the next day to correct his mistake? You tried to pay 3 times ffs. What did he want? You to go in on your hands and knees with the tenner between your teeth a box of crappy biscuits under your arm and a letter of apology?
Take him his £10 and tell him to shove it up his arse
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