Am I the only one who picked the debit card over the credit card at the register and felt like a fool | banking and payments community

Aaron Hunt · 2026-10-01T13:05:05.166651+00:00

Last week at a gas station in Boise the screen asked me to choose debit or credit for a $12 fill up, and I panicked and hit debit because it felt faster. The pump shut off twice, ran my card three times, and the clerk said the hold could sit on my account for a day or two, so now I am watching $36 tied up for a tank of gas. Does anyone know if credit actually clears quicker at the pump, or did I just make this whole thing up in my head?

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