In addition, the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 made it a federal crime to steal an American company's trade secrets, such as the formula for Coca-Cola or how Julia Roberts gets so many dozens of teeth into that fabulous smile. Every year my in-laws celebrate Christmas with my son a week early so that they can spend the real Christmas with their daughter's children in Atlanta. They spend the night and pretend it's Christmas Eve, and the next day we all get up early and pretend it's Christmas Day. I feel this is not fair to my son. Lying to a child is always unfortunate, and in this case it is particularly ludicrous and unnecessary.
Kids love celebrating early and often.
I suppose you should be grateful that they visit only a week early and not six months in advance - it's so hard to get that artificial snow to stick to the ground in June. He says he has no way of knowing that he received the car with a truly full tank. He is right on paranoia, wrong on ethics. The rental agreement he signed says to fill the tank, not refuel until the semiaccurate gas gauge registers something vaguely fullish. His obligation is unambiguous.