Blah blah blah.

It's whining if one does not take responsibility for ones irresponsible
actions. I include myself, if you don't include yourself or the original
poster, then whatever.

I repeat that it's best to keep such mistakes to oneself unless one is
thick-skinned enough to take the heat on a newsgroup.


"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"John Larson" wrote in message
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Are you serious? Some guy "accidentally" gassed up his plane on this guys
dime?

The point Bob was making (I think) is that the original post was certainly
not worded as an accusation.

If he really did wind up with someone else buying gas on his dime, I
certainly agree it's unlikely that person did so unknowingly. But Paul's
original post was worded very kindly, and not at all in an accusatory
tone.

In other words, your use of the word "stole" implies that he was accusing
the person of something (like stealing). When in fact he worded his post
so as to allow for the possibility that the person simply accidently
wandered off with his money (so to speak).

As far as who's fault it is, if the gas was indeed stolen, I'd say it was
both Paul's fault, as well as whoever stole the gas. And it was mostly
the fault of the person who stole the gas. That's not to say that Paul
should be absolved of his commitment to pay his credit card company what
is owed; as has been pointed out, if he gets out of paying, the cost will
be borne by entirely innocent parties, which is obviously not fair or
right.

But to stand around and imply that Paul got what he deserved for making
such an error (assuming he did make such an error) is unreasonable. If
everyone in the world were honorable and honest, his mistake wouldn't have
led to any loss at all.

Pete