Meter dekhlo!

You have probably heard this thousand times at a petrol pump. Have you ever wondered why do these attendants have to say this each time they fill petrol in your car? Well, I have. Yesterday evening while I was refilling my car, a question crossed my mind? Why do they have to say 'Meter dekhlo'(check the meter) every single time?

The answer is simple. These attendants want to tell us that they are not cheating on us. This is an easy conclusion, isn't it? Why is there a question of cheating if we are paying for it? It is a question of trust. If you want others to trust you, you must start trusting them as well. How about us trusting these attendants? We give such a small task to these attendants and we don’t trust them. Doesn't this happen to us elsewhere as well? - At workplace, at home, in the society? Think about it. I am sure all of us have assigned responsibilities to someone without trusting that he/she will do the job. Only if we had little faith in each other, our world would have been so much better.

Coming back to filling the fuel tank – how many times have you found these attendants cheating on you? I have never ever been cheated but I still check the meter when the guy fills petrol in my car. It has become a sort of a tradition now. Unless you see the meter, you don’t believe that the petrol is going into the fuel tank. How ridiculous!