forecourt hoggers

x in the city

Is Ireland full of these low life's, or is it restricted to Munster?

A while ago en route from Cork to Kerry stopped for petrol.

No less than 3 cars hogging various pumps, noone inside any car. I found one pump and maneuvered my car enough to get petrol went inside paid for it and pulled well away from these cars [to air pumps] while my passenger went back inside for a few things.

15minutes ish minutes later a lady appears and goes to one car that was hogging the pumps, 5 minutes after that she finally leaves.

in the meantime another woman pulls up right between 2 pumps and goes inside the shop..! about 5 minutes later she goes back to her car, Tyre kicks each Tyre. humms to herself for a bit and gets inside and moves on

all this time there was cars trying to get petrol and the whole place resembled a war zone. almost all the pumps were taken up by cars while the owners were inside reading papers, drinking coffee, buying groceries.

ignorant fcuknits!

I was over near the air pumps for about 20/30 minutes observing all this.

Normal behaviour in Ireland seems?

Saab Ed

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Berty

And you are from where?

If you say you are from timbuctoo then people including myself will tell you that they do it in Timbuctoo as well.

Its life, they dont care about you or anybody else and they never will but if you block them from getting petrol you will certainly hear all about it.

Mossy Monk

30 minutes at the air pumps?

CharlieCroker

you added 30 mins to your journey just to watch people park at petrol pumps to see if they were actually buying petrol??

Hmmmm, I'd sure love to go for a pint with you!!!!!:rolleyes:

MissesMe

I'm going to assume your from dublin,
life is a little more relaxed outside the big city

x in the city

CharlieCroker wrote: »

you added 30 mins to your journey just to watch people park at petrol pumps to see if they were actually buying petrol??

Hmmmm, I'd sure love to go for a pint with you!!!!!:rolleyes:

no, if you read my post, I just happened to be waiting for my passenger to get back to my car. Its not like I am a forecourt anorak. Its the first time I waited so long in a forecourt and I was amazed at the ignorance of people

I have never seen such an ignorant nation as Ireland tbh

F-Stop

Errr... some people are just a**h***s. This isn't unique to any part of the country or any country on the planet. Call it bad breeding, or ignorance, or selfishness, or whatever you want, but some people just can't see past their own shadows and it reflects in their behaviour no matter whether they are in the pub, shopping centre, cinema, petrol station or at home. Everywhere!

They also tend to be such a**h***s that they will never even recognise or acknowledge that their behaviour is bad and impacts badly on others - they just do not care (take the carwash thread as an example). And, they will never change.

Why do you think there are rules of the road? Or laws in any situation where this type of behaviour actually endangers others? It's because sometimes you have to force a**h***s to behave (though they often don't anyway). To them common courtesy, the common good, decency, are like foreign countries, but not even the ones they'd go on holidays to.

Cuddlesworth

x in the city wrote: »

I have never seen such an ignorant nation as Ireland tbh

And I have. You need to get out more.

CharlieCroker

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

And I have. You need to get out more.

can name some but i wont, cos i'm scared of the mods.:p

x in the city wrote: »

I just happened to be waiting for my passenger to get back to my car.

I have never seen such an ignorant nation as Ireland tbh

fair nuff. I wouldn't be losing any sleep over it. Happens every day

x in the city

x in the city wrote: »

went inside paid for it and pulled well away from these cars [to air pumps]

ya know what i don't like, air pump hoggers




yea, all of ireland is like this, myself included.. altho i'd only park at a pump if i knew i was only there for a minute or two. people don't fill their cars often enough to worry about this sort of thing imo. if i have to wait a few minutes for a pump, it doesn't bother me cause it's not an everyday occurance.

Saab Ed

Credit card users who cant remember their pin......arrrrggghhhh :mad: and then change their mind about which crisps they want. Do what I do at the pumps and just blow the horn loads or skip past people in the shop que and just put the money on the counter saying " 20 euro there " as I walk out the door.:) No stress here....

su_dios

I have stopped moving my car from the pump after topping up until I pay for it, as one time I went in to pay and by the time I was at the top of the que someone had already filled up where I was and was done and had obviously wander off around the shop or was talking to someone. Anyway the woman behind the counter was trying to do me for 50eur instead of 20 and I kept trying to argue this but by filling up on the pump after me it had cleared any record of mine.

So for the hassle, I have stopped doing this. Now I have rarely seen people move from a pump before paying and even when this does happen I think its when people are buying food from the deli.

I would never intentionally hold someone up(in the doors and que up to pay then leave). But I won't be moving my car anymore from the pump.

Rowley Birkin QC

You're hardly the soul of decency and good manners yourself OP. Taken from another thread.

x in the city wrote: »

Think the OP is outta luck here, someone trying to understand hand signals from stupid farmer types in a tractor is the last thing someone should do. who knows what they are doing or where there are going..

bazz26

Ah.. Victor Meldrew thread alert!



I think some folks are a bit wound up and need to relax a little. Don't let these silly things get under your skin.

Ardent

x in the city wrote: »

no, if you read my post, I just happened to be waiting for my passenger to get back to my car. Its not like I am a forecourt anorak.

LOL. Thanks for making me laugh!

Johnboy Mac

x in the city wrote: »

Is Ireland full of these low life's, or is it restricted to Munster?

A while ago en route from Cork to Kerry stopped for petrol.

No less than 3 cars hogging various pumps, noone inside any car. I found one pump and maneuvered my car enough to get petrol went inside paid for it and pulled well away from these cars [to air pumps] while my passenger went back inside for a few things.

15minutes ish minutes later a lady appears and goes to one car that was hogging the pumps, 5 minutes after that she finally leaves.

in the meantime another woman pulls up right between 2 pumps and goes inside the shop..! about 5 minutes later she goes back to her car, Tyre kicks each Tyre. humms to herself for a bit and gets inside and moves on

all this time there was cars trying to get petrol and the whole place resembled a war zone. almost all the pumps were taken up by cars while the owners were inside reading papers, drinking coffee, buying groceries.

ignorant fcuknits!

I was over near the air pumps for about 20/30 minutes observing all this.

Normal behaviour in Ireland seems?

That's nothing, you want to see here in Mayo. Cars literally abandoned all over the garage forecourts, and of course always blocking the shop door which means two pumps can't used. Sad reflection on the public.

Gary ITR

I filled up a while back and when I went to park before paying the guy ran out of the shop and straight over to me. He thought I was doing a legger.