Do you move your car at Filling Stations?

09-08-2011 6:32pm

Leave car at pumps

Max Power1 wrote: »

Tell the first part of your post to the gardai,
Inevitably they will be called if the attendant sees you getting back into your car without paying.

Nonsense, by your logic I should have had an encounter with the guards a few times per month.

Any attendant using their head at all would wait to see if the person parks up or drives off, whats to be gained by ringing that 3 seconds earlier.

Also if they did call the guards do you think I would be hanging around to talk to them I would have paid and be long gone before they arrived.

Topper Harley · 09-08-2011 6:52pm

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pappyodaniel wrote: »

Same here. I actually moved someone's car once and parked it around the side of the petrol station. Got back in my car, filled the tank, paid the cashier and left before the owner of the other car came back out.

Wait, you actually got in someone else's car, without their permission and moved it? Did this actually happen or did your fingers just lose the run of themselves while you were frustrated at some people's behaviour that you disagreed with? I hope it was the latter, that would be excusable.

Okay, so you had no intention of robbing the car, but at the time no one else knew that and what if there had been a child in the car? Imagine what people would have thought. Please don't let your frustration get the better of you and get you into a situation you really would rather not be in.

EDIT: And for the record, I have felt like doing the same myself on a couple of occasions, but where a driver has parked directly in front of the shop entrance rather than in a space/at a pump and even once leaving their door wide open completely blocking access to the shop. :mad:

Agricola · 09-08-2011 7:06pm

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The petrol station I use would only see the odd farmer stopping for the auld green diesel. Now that I come to think of it, I did see a car there at the pumps once. So, I think Im safe enough leaving it where it is to go in to pay!

ZETOR_IS_BETTER · 09-08-2011 7:25pm

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I always leave the car at the pump while I pay

101sean · 10-08-2011 12:31pm

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Depends where it is. If it's a busy urban filling station I won't move it, I've seen plenty of signs saying not to move the vehicle. Attitude is probably as I've spent a lot of time in the UK where drive offs are rife and no-one moves cars unless they are doing a runner.

If it's rural and only a couple of pumps and someone is waiting, I'll move. Same in the wholesalers where I normally buy diesel.

Bandara · 10-08-2011 12:54pm

Its a nonsense to say that moving your car will cause a panic or even an issue for a till operator. Pumps can handle multiple transactions and the operator can easily identify who is who by a few simple questions, not the mention that most people state their pump number and/or fuel amount anyway.

Anyone who is intending to steal fuel is not going to enter the shop nor will they make it so obvious that they are stealing that it would give the operator time to run out and confront them (which they would not do anyway as they wouldn't notice in time -it takes a period of 15 minutes for an unpaid fuel transaction to go red and declare itself as a drive on the system anyway)

Vicxas · 10-08-2011 1:14pm

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I leave it where it is, i dont want them to think im splashing and dashing.

Do you move your car at Filling Stations?

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