We were driving on fumes of gas after a long unexpected detour. We finally reached a bourg with two gas stations. But they had both just closed at noon for lunch. One would reopen at 2:30 and the other at 3:00. "But you can buy gas on a few pumps if you have a Blue Card." We don't have a Blue Card for gas. We found the next day that a Blue Card just means a credit card, because the first cards issued were blue, so theoretically we could have gotten gas. It doesn't matter, though, because the man we talked to at the gas station tried to use his Blue Card and the card reader wasn't working. We had a long lunch that day.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Language versus Usage
We were driving on fumes of gas after a long unexpected detour. We finally reached a bourg with two gas stations. But they had both just closed at noon for lunch. One would reopen at 2:30 and the other at 3:00. "But you can buy gas on a few pumps if you have a Blue Card." We don't have a Blue Card for gas. We found the next day that a Blue Card just means a credit card, because the first cards issued were blue, so theoretically we could have gotten gas. It doesn't matter, though, because the man we talked to at the gas station tried to use his Blue Card and the card reader wasn't working. We had a long lunch that day.
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I also had trouble getting gas trying to use a "blue card". American cards have the computer chip in a different place on the card, so in certain charge transactions, it's impossible to use a US credit card. A very nice man at the station offered to put my gas on his card, but the machine wouldn't take his card because he had already used it for gas that day! Life can be difficult in a foreign country!
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