[bennelson]

I saw a weird gas price sign the other day.

It's one of those large electronic signs with the LEDS in the shape of a rectangular "8".

The price looked like it said "-1.09".


Wow, they pay me to take the gas?

Took me a minute to figure out that it was a "4" with the upper-left part of the digit missing. I was not sure if it was burned out, or if the sign simply didn't have a light element there. A 1, 2, or 3 does NOT use that part of the sign character.

Perhaps this sign was never designed to display $4 a gallon gasoline?

A couple summers ago, I was working out in the middle of nowhere. There was a REALLY old-fashioned gas station which still had pumps with mechanical counters. Those counters only went up to .999 dollars per gallon.
There was a hand-written sign on the pump saying to double or triple the number on the pump for what you actually pay.

Anyone else seen gas pumps that can't even tell the right price? Got a photo of it?