A Not-Greedy Oil Company

It’s funny how a random memory will pop into your head out of nowhere.
 
Everyone has bad things to say about greedy oil companies, but here is a 100% true story.
 
My mother had had a Texaco credit card for at least 30 years, and had always paid the bill off every month.
 
She was 59 when my step father died, and wouldn’t be able to get Social Security until she was 60. She had no income, but still had to be able to get to doctor appointments. So she used her Texaco card to get gas as needed, but the bills started piling up, unpaid.
 
After several months, Texaco contacted her and asked when she would pay the bill. She wrote back and explained that her husband died, leaving her with no income, but she would soon be getting Social Security, and she would start paying the bill off then.
 
Texaco wrote back the most wonderful letter of understanding and sympathy. They zeroed out her bill and told her she didn’t owe anything. My mother cried with gratitude.
 
That was back in the 90s, and I don’t know if they would be so wonderful now. But it was an awesome thing to do back then.
 
Here are a couple of vintage Texaco commercials.