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Petrol Station RANT !!

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joggerjayne | 08:38 Tue 13th Jul 2010 | ChatterBank
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Aaaaaaaaaagh !!!

When you're waiting at the filling station, why does the person in front of you ...

... get in their car

... fiddle with their mirror (did it move while they were paying????)

... fish around for their sunnies (push them up on your head - then you don't lose them!!!)

... pat their pockets (NO ... you DIDN'T leave your wallet in the shop, f f s !)

... check their mirror again (it really is loose, isn't it !)

... pull on their seat belt (OMG ... HOW slowly can you do that ???)

... look around for their keys (f f s ... you were HOLDING them when you got in the car!!)

... start their engine (Hurrah)

... and then sit and watch to make sure the petrol gauge goes up (I SAW you filling the effing tank !!)

... check their mirror again (you REALLY need to get that mirror fixed !)

... and finally move away (sometimes cheerily waving back, to acknowledge that they've annoyed you)

INSTEAD OF

Getting in their car, moving out of my sodding way, and THEN doing all the above.

GRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!!
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You tell 'em JJ !
I was parked behind you and you did all that and your lipstick.
LOL JJ, sorry it was me....
you can tell if the person in the car in front of you is patting their pockets? Yo, X-ray Spex!
lol.
im sure they just know it annoys you and do it more.

Ive been known to do the above if the person behind is being impatient and refuses to go around my car. You know, the ones that start their engine before youve even finished putting your fuel in (the ones that just pop in £3 of fuel at a time) and are sat right on the bumper of mine before I've paid.

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jno ... if someone is looking down and moving their arms, they are either checking their pockets, or having a w@nk.

Hey, Melons ... x ... If I was in the big car, I might have just pushed you out of the way, LOL
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Mousey ... I would move away from the pump before doing my lippy !

redman ... I wanted one of those loudspeakers like some Police cars have. I would have said "Please move your fcuking car" !!

red ... that would be soooooo annoying !
jj you are so right....
My favourites are the ones that pull into a garage in front of you, park their cars at the only available pump and then wander into the shop without using the pump at all! (especially nice when it's a mini supermarket at the garage and they want to pretty much do their weekly shopping!)
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stokey ... thank you x

Chuck ... YES ! ... AND ... they use the loo, get a coffee, etc etc.
i like the people who can only fill up the car with the fuel cap by the pump, as the 8+ foot fuel hose can't possibly get round your 6 foot wide car. pathetic.

you see them all queing ewhilst there are empty pumps and then they look on in amazement as you drive up and low and behold the pump fits round
I've always had admiration for people that can fill up their car at a pump the opposite side from the filling cap. I've never been able to make it reach.
haha LOL, just read Beasts post *hangs head in shame*
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Booldawg ...

Even in my Land Cruiser I can fill up from the "opposite side"

As beastmonkey says ... there's a jolly long hose on those pumps !
While we are ranting, hows about people in all shops that stand their watching the cashier ring all their items through the till and then at the end of it when the cashier says "that will be £27.69 please" they look surprised and then start rummaging through their bags to find their wallet/purse!!

Why the hell could they not get the purse/wallet out while they were waiting,Did they not realise that the cashier would want paying at the end of the transaction!
This is an excerpt from my new book; 'Panic at the Pumps'; (sorry dont have pound signs on US keyboard)

'With trepidation he saw the meter roll past 9.87 knowing the time would soon come. 9.92, he'd already been clicking since 8.52. Brain, eyes, hands all desperately trying to marry together, small musclar hand twitches to 9.98. One last small sqeeze - it was all over. 10.01.......again.'
Lol Booldawg! It is such an achievement to make it land on a round number! And totally agree with the filling up on opposite sides thing although quite like that other people can't because then I can push in!
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WHY do people try to stop the petrol pump on a whole number of £££'s ????
jj- it's like not getting up until the minutes are a tens or fives number, if it's 07.12am then I'll think, just another 3 minutes then!
The driver in front at the pumps wouldn't be fiddling with his mirror or biding his time checking out his sunnies if i was behind him in a tank! Just a dream i know, but that one always pops into my head when I'm in the same position as JJ.

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