89, 9/10th of a penny and the top-off

I’ve ranked the top scams at gas stations

• - The $0.009/gallon addition they all use to try to steer business their way. Round the sucker up to the penny and be done with it
• - The whole 89 octane thing.. This is like not deciding if you like cowgirls or Indians. I mean you can love both but you should really decide at one point and if you are an Indian who happens to love cowgirls you should embrace it and not hide it from your parents.
• - Cash or credit scam, yeah I know this is really not a 'scam' per-se because the greedy banks are banging the gas-stations for some outrageous costin fees but I’m getting hoodwinked into the place because of the sign that advertises the cash price.
• - The entire ethanol additive thing. You are charging me more for getting less and you are getting all the credit. Corn Based ethanol is about as efficient as pissing into the wind.
• - Topping off.

 As much as i'm pissed at the first four, the last one really sits with me like a bad hot-dog

How often does this happen to you? You fill up your tank and the total comes out to some odd number, $26.63 for example and the gas-station attendant (in a full serve station) brings the total to $27.00. I’m sure that years ago rounding up may have made sense when you were paying cash and having the total rounded to the nearest dollar meant having less change to deal with, but in today’s world where everything is on a credit or debit card rounding up to the nearest dollar makes absolutely no difference.  It has just becomes a way for the gas-stations to suck you dry even more. See I have a thousand items on my credit-card bill and which I pay online from my checking account so having $26.63 or $27.00 appear on the credit-card statement makes absolutely no difference to me.  It's even worse when the gas stops at $26.03 and the ahole tries to bring it to $27.

I’m not 100% sure but it seems to me that everytime somebody tops off your gas-tank that ¾ of  a gallon doesn't ever end up in the tank it just pours out of the spout into the gasline and then regurgitates onto the floor.
I’m also convinced that this can’t be good for the car, there is a reason the automatic stop-valve kicks in when the gas is full, this is like me sitting at an all-you-can eat feast and then some jackass egging me on to have another bowl of the endless pasta like me my gas-tank belches and then my shoes or its tires are covered in 89 grade gasoline mixed with 5% ethanol.