Dear Mr Total......

You can **** right off.

After ten years of riding, and having called at the same petrol station
just opposite where I work, for the last 3 months, they wouldn't supply
me petrol until I took my lid off tonight.

I got the petrol, and I did make a bit of fuss, but I shan't be using
Total anymore.

'Company policy' the girl said. So has anyone else had this at a Total
garage lately?

 

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Not lately but certainly at a Total garage. I complained to Head Office,
got a load of old flannel as a reply. Never used the petrol station
again.

 

I'm sure that's exactly what he said to the cashier.

 

<ding>

I stopped using one of my local stations after they went this route
recently, and that was after filling up twice a week for *years* there.
And whilst wearing a flip up lid!

I am *so* tempted to go back in, and when they ask me to remove the
lid, do so. Leaving the balaclava firmly in place, of course...

 

I must admit that I can't get too stirred up about it being
discrimination or any of the other bollocks that gets posted.

I do find it a bloody pain though and adds to the time in the garage,
increases the chances of damaging helmet (dropping it while digging out
CC to pay etc), especially as I too wear a flip front helmet.

It's only ever happened to me once, and I've not been back to that
garage - as it was somewhere in the wilds of the East End and it was
the first time I'd been there, that's not too onerous to me anyway.

 

Simon Atkinson wrote:

<ding again>

Especially in the winter. I spend a while getting the whole
lid/scarf/windcheater/jacket thing sorted, sealed and comfortable
before setting off on my sixty-odd mile journey to/from my office. I'll
be fucked if I'm going to do it all again ten minutes later just
because I need petrol, and the cashier's paranoid.

 

It might be easier as more stations get these 'pay at the pump with
your card' type pumps in.

I was going to prophesise that it will end up with petrol stations
unmannned (like French ones can be for long periods) but in the UK
there's too much money in selling coffee, pies and other shite -
meaning they'll want to keep the shop bits open as long as possible.
The petrol bit is a bit of a waste of time to most garages.

 

Last night the sainsbury petrol station in Hove wouldn't let me pay for
the fuel until I took my open face helmet off. I did so.

But pulled up my scarf bandit style.

"I never wanted to be a train driver ..."

 

I had one like that once - let me fill up and wouldn't let me pay. I
left my name and address and fecked off. Never heard another word.

Suits *you* Sir...

 

Simon Atkinson wrote in

The Safeway near my mum's has disabled the pay at pump system. I suspect
your reasoning about getting people to queue next to Mars bars is
applicable.

 

Aye - more profit in a fecking Mars bar than a tank of petrol.

 

As they said on the (local) BBC news today, non-GlobalCorp stations make a
massive 2p per litre profit, most of which goes on staff wages and they make
their money from the peripheral stuff.... Then again, with no staff to
pay........

 

It's a bit annoying when some twat in a car can't wait for you to get your
helmet and gloves back on before you move away from the pumps. I've lost
count of the number of times people have expected me to shuffle the bike
away from the pump.

 

It pisses me off when I'm asked to remove my helmet. Then again, when I
do they generally ask me to put it on again sharpish.

 

**** 'em. I've never had anyone say anything about me moving before
I'm ready.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Is someone frogging Murray again?

 

I asked my local Shell cashier if I could just shove the money through
the "Night Window" thingy, they even refused to do that !

Mike.

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They are doing a shite job of it.

 

Nice one, never thought of that one.