Picture it..... a gas station, July 2006. You go to the gas station, you pull up to the pump, swipe your credit card and run into the store for a drink. Meanwhile, your passenger pumps the gas while you're in the store.
As you are standing in line, you hear a woman tell the clerk that she paid cash for her gas and left without pumping it because she forgot since she was busy talking to someone on her cell (meanwhile, as she tells the clerk this, she is still on the cell phone). The cell phone person is told that someone else got their gas and there's nothing he can do.... cell person storms out of store complaining into their phone about how someone stole her gas. You pay for your drink return to your car.
Upon getting back to your car, you notice the gas tank is only a little above a 1/4 tank even after pumping... you ask your passenger how much gas they pumped for you. They tell you that the pump simply stopped at $10.00. Hmmm... odd. So you get out of the car and swipe the credit card again, this time for another $20 worth of gas. As you get back into the car, you realize YOU stole the cell phone person's gas. You didn't mean to and didn't realize it until after the cell phone person was long gone.
Did you "steal" the gas?
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