"Automated Gas Machines"

In case you're reading this and you've never been to Canada before...when you're paying for your gas, you have a couple of options.
You can pay in person at the cash inside (assuming that you are fueling up at a gas station with an indoors area like a convenience store) or you can sometimes pay at the pump.  Now in Canada (at least in NS), you pay at the pump by pre-authorizing your credit card a certain amount (FYI it won't show up on your credit bill right away - but will be deducted from your available balance...oh the banking memories!) OR by choosing how much to debit your bank account.  If you choose $50 and only end up spending $36.45 - that is all that gets deducted from your account.

Anyway, here in Finland - you can pay at the pump at the "Automated Gas Machines" and you pay at the end of the dispensers (but not actually AT the gas pumps where you choose which kind you want...you know what I mean!) ...you can use credit cards or your Visa Electron ("debit") OR cash!

I had gone to Prisma with a friend to get some important things, as I realized our trip to Canada is coming up in 3 weeks!  And she had to fill up her car and I noticed she took cash but there wasn't a gas attendant/indoors area for her to pay....then she explained it to me and I was incredibly surprised.

I think I out-shocked her by telling her about milk in a bag.