come on, traveller, don't muddle up the joy of bitching about the US by injecting facts or positive observations here! You spoil all the fun!

>>j 999 - you really don't get it do you?<<

CDT (Cheap Debating Trick) Alert!

Actually, robjame, people in the US just don't like Canadians, and merchants do all they can to discourage Canadians from visiting.

So, the "high crime rate" thing was your contribution to this travel forum? I'm sure you'll be a lot more helful when that bug crawls out of your ...

Merry Christmas!

Maybe robjame doesn't realize the the people inside that particular gas station have a special button. When they see him at the pump they say "hurry, put a block on the pump so that guy who comes in here and complains every time can't use his card there".