In California (and Connecticut), you don’t have to pay to use the air pumps at gas stations. You can just go inside and ask them to turn on the air pump, and they legally have to.

Counterintuitively, this also causes the rate of profit to fall for corporations. Most of their profit comes from the surplus labor value of the employees, so with less employees to exploit, profits go down.

Wikipedia: tendency for the rate of profit to fall

I have a friend who did this exact same thing his first time. Maybe it's more common than one might think.

By chance, is the girl's name Ivy?