Next Time You Fill Up Don’T Dawdle

[Bertrum]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/nov/23/driver-fined-100-at-bp-for-taking-too-long#comment-135776825

[Ellipsis]

How ridiculous.

[naomi24]

Supermarket garages should do well from it.

[emmie]

just another rip off for the motorist.

[LadyCG]

Mass boycotting is the way to deal with this daylight robbery.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, not very good publicity for BP. My nearest BP station has THE most surly, unhelpful and inefficient staff I’ve ever come across.

[gingejbee]

Actually, the people who fill up, leave their car at the pumps and decide to shop at the attached M&S mini market do my head in...the reason I never go to the BP/M&S filling station.

[douglas9401]

England can be a very odd country. Those in power must have a very poor opinion of citizens when they allow this type of thing to flourish.

[Zacs-Master]

Better than those in power ignoring their nations referendum results.....oh, hang on....

[douglas9401]

He shoots - he misses.

Do try to stay on topic dear boy.

[Zacs-Master]

They sell topics at my BP garage. Better?

[douglas9401]

That's just nuts.

[Zacs-Master]

It was a kernel of an idea.

[Old_Geezer]

Do Topics still exist ?

What has a hazelnut in every bite ?
A. Squirrel turd.

[ToraToraTora]

sounds out of order but I don't think I've ever been as long as 20mins at a garage. I do miss the old days where a garage was where you got fuel and maybe the odd motoring product like oil etc and possible confectionery, now days they are like a bleeding supermarket. I hope people start boycotting the places that have invited these parasite parking firms onto their forecourts. Who knows perhaps more old style garages my pop up as a result. Surely this can't possibly be good PR for BP, ESSO, Shell etc.

[douglas9401]

Yes OG, Topics do still exist but like most things have shrunk with age.

[gness]

You speak for your bits, Douglas....my hips haven't..... :-(

[jourdain2]

It's my tummy, gness. :(

[ladybirder]

Well I now know which garages to avoid in the future. Thanks Bertrum for the tip off.

[Mexican18]

Remember the days when you sat in the car and someone would put the petrol in and then wash the windscreen?

[Captain2]

Another hurt in the pocket at our nearest BP garage is the cost of using the tyre pressure machine; used to be free (alright some time ago), then 20p, then 50p - this week £1 for 5mins of air. Who takes 5 mins to check four tyres?