Strange behaviour

annascott · 10-10-2011 09:31PM #1

[sorry, post should read 'behaviour']

Why do men feel the need to get out of their car and watch petrol attendants as they put petrol/diesel into the car?

Kells... · 10-10-2011 09:32PM

I put my own petrol in,this ain't the 1900's no more.

alwaysadub · 10-10-2011 09:32PM

Do they?

Celly Smunt · 10-10-2011 09:33PM

i don't think i've ever seen a petrol attendant in Ireland

10-10-2011 09:34PM

do they do that? I only allowed the attendant do it once, during the cold snap last year and I forgot my gloves and the pump was hurting my hand because it was so cold!

abouttobebanned · 10-10-2011 09:34PM

Is this a thread from 1992?

phill106 · 10-10-2011 09:34PM

Only reason not to fill your own petrol is if you have two broken arms.
Dont think you would be driving then!

Fbjm · 10-10-2011 09:34PM

What's a petrol attendant?

mackg · 10-10-2011 09:35PM

pmcmahon wrote: »

i don't think i've ever seen a petrol attendant in Ireland

I worked as one when I was a teenager

I think the wording on the contract was forecourt attendant, but that was a fair few years ago now.

My name is URL · 10-10-2011 09:35PM

Closest thing to porn you can get at a Maxol station

10-10-2011 09:35PM

I'm suprised people don't see attendants around the place! At least 3 stations I go to have them

AnamGlas · 10-10-2011 09:36PM

They think yer man is actin' the shnake

FearDark · 10-10-2011 09:37PM

Seriously OP I've never seen this in my life but you started it so...why the f*ck do women take so f*ucking long at ATM's?? Looking into the screen like ye just discovered Narnia for the first time.

You started it

pebbles21 · 10-10-2011 09:37PM

That frustrating moment when you have almost finished your bowl of cornflakes,and the last five are like..."catch me if you can bitch!!"

annascott · 10-10-2011 09:38PM

Can't believe that you all live without petrol attendants. Most of the garages have them...

Chuck Stone · 10-10-2011 09:38PM

I don't like it when some pumps juice into my tank.

Ooohhhh Matron.

starbelgrade · 10-10-2011 09:38PM

There's loads of petrol attendants working in garages - it's more of a county thing. They're very popular with older women... not being sexist here, but I know quite a few women who prefer to use them as they don't have to get their hands dirty.

Personally, I avoid them like the plague as I don't trust spotty teenagers to know the difference between green & black.

cocoshovel · 10-10-2011 09:40PM

I have never seen a petrol attendant in this country ever. Where the hell is this?

Abi · 10-10-2011 09:40PM

Hold on, we'll get back to the attendant watching in a minute, that could be a whole other can of worms right there..

What man allows an attendant fill their tank in the first place?

Wertz · 10-10-2011 09:42PM

Starla_o0 wrote: »

I'm suprised people don't see attendants around the place! At least 3 stations I go to have them

Nah they're just the local perverts.

Latchy · 10-10-2011 09:44PM

annascott wrote: »

Can't believe that you all live without petrol attendants. Most of the garages have them...

Yeah...every 100 miles or so on route 66 you'll see them ,with an old rusty coke sign swinging in the wind outside their pre-1940s shops that used to be a stop of for the miners in the gold rush .......( phew)

mackg · 10-10-2011 09:45PM

Abi wrote: »

Hold on, we'll get back to the attendant watching in a minute, that could be a whole other can of worms right there..

What man allows an attendant fill their tank in the first place?

The chronically useless, there were fellas who would get you to put in the petrol and then when you went to the window to get the money they would tell you to get them taytos and chocolate when you went to the till.

Where To · 10-10-2011 09:45PM

Nobody pumps my car but me

JustAThought · 10-10-2011 09:46PM

My local garage always had one! He would go off in a sulk if you didn't let him do it! He'd always run over and ask how much as you pulled in! I still roll down my window coming into a garage out of habit! I grew up listening to my Dad saying fill 'er up!!! Miss it :0 stupid multinational cheapskates

PK2008 · 10-10-2011 09:46PM

Fbjm wrote: »

What's a petrol attendant?

Fuel injection technician

cosanostra · 10-10-2011 09:46PM

I always insist on filling my own tank that way i can put in 20.03 and pay 20

Schism · 10-10-2011 09:46PM

annascott wrote: »

Can't believe that you all live without petrol attendants. Most of the garages have them...

I know, how are we getting by without them I'll never know. A daily struggle!

artanevilla · 10-10-2011 09:47PM

They used to have them YEARS ago but haven't seen one since I started drivng. I hope they make a comeback, I hate filling up.

ITS_A_BADGER · 10-10-2011 09:48PM

honestly i think its because they want to make sure the correct amount goes in and also the correct type.

BUT there are people that just want to look at the young one pumping gas or get chatting to her etc etc

personally im 25 years old and i do it meself hot looking young one or not:pac:

Celly Smunt · 10-10-2011 09:49PM

is it part of their job to get you something inside the shop too? like a mars bar or something

The King of Moo · 10-10-2011 09:50PM

It's because the petrol attendants are so sexy.

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