Take my lid off before fuel?! WTF!

[NinjaBoy]

[NinjaBoy]

[G]

And that happened because people want more money.

People paying for stuff would prefer to spend less.

And of course people who sell things also want to make more money, so want to be able to pay as little as possible to sell things.

[fuzz]

[PsychoHippy]

[BFG]

Hiding your face has always been rude and impolite in our society and will aways be treated with suspicion and distrust. Ask your grandparents. In their day you'd have had a clip around the ear for such bad manners and no social workers to go and whine to about it.

I always take my lid off when talking to another person. Always. It takes 5 seconds, including earplugs. If you can;t do it in 5 seconds it's not enough practice. The single reason not to is "I don wanna". That's it. Convenience culture meets consumerist ethic. No greater need than that. Welcome to the ipod generation

I for one will never judge anyone that doesn't do it, by all means carry on. But I wish people would quit whining about it unless they can come up with a better argument than "convenience".

[Kickstart]

[Kickstart]

[Walloper]

Everyone P.........leeeeeze.

They ask you to remove the helmet coz you may be a thief....

Get them back on the fourcourts pumping the stuff they sell to us into the tank for us......

Do we not call them 'SERVICE' stations?

AND:

QUOTE ME: "Drop the hose".

I meant in the blooming holder on the side of the pump you twits.....
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[400bandit]

I understand this argument, its never happened to me (as yet) but I think it is totally pointless and unreasonable.
A year back my dad drove into a petrol garage in his lorry and was asked to leave his card at the tills whilst he filled up. He said no, i'll leave you my keys but I'm not leaving my card as I have had it cloned before and I dont want it happening again, at this the man behind the desk said to my dad you don't trust me (he was foreign but that has nothing to do with the price of bread...) and my dad said "no, you don't trust me" to which the cashier replied "you fuck off out of my shop!" as you can imagine my dad got quite verbal and left... Im sure lossing out to over 200 quids worth of fuel may have dissapointed them.
One thing to think about though. Do people who wear head dresses as part of religion have to remove them before filling up? I have never seen them being shouted at over the speakers next to the pumps...
(p.s. at the above, I do no think they should either, I'm just using it as a point...)
Joe
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[ncrn]

I've never had a problem with taking my lid off before filling up, I always put the stand down just incase, I always take my lid off before I go pay because its polite.

I dont think its really an issue either way, if the station is half decent they'll have a camera that can get a bikes plate so there isnt a need to remove the lid.

at the end of the day they are just doing their jobs, why give them a hard time over it?

[NinjaBoy]

[Kickstart]

[fuzz]

[JeffT]

The thing I don't get is the whole "is so you can been seen by the CCTV".
But if you were gonna rob the bloody place, you wouldnt take your lid off anyway!

[meenie]

[veeeffarr]

Grrr

[djr]

[NinjaBoy]

How the f*ck would they serve you BETTER?! Roll out a carpet and bring you a coffee?? Bull shnitt - so they don't have to have a go at you when you get in there incase you try to rob the place!!
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[bazza]

[Walloper]

[Aikman666]

Thats interesting Toby, ive never seen one of those signs at our tesco's either in the store or at the petrol station. Being a Tesco's employee aswell you would think i would know about these policies Ive never been asked to remove it at the petrol station.

My view on it is that to walk in and hand over money, do you really need to take your lid off? Its not so bad with my new helmet with the quick release but with D-rings it means taking of gloves etc aswell, plus the fannying about with earplugs that you have to do. You could also take example from 'The long way round' book, Ewan McGregor had petrol splashed in his eye TWICE so its handy to keep the lid on - just incase.

As for manners, that went down the plughole years ago with the rest of society, the government, Britain itself and of course its people. So why go out of your way to make sure your being polite?
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[Walloper]

[short1uk]

I would not take my lid off

1 cause i would have to take my glasses off

2 i have autocom so it means arsing fixing the mike against my lips again

3 my hair then gets in my eyes when i put it back on

4 takes me forever to get the bloody gloves back on.

so i would just drive to another garage.

Funny enough all the garages round mine dont care (prob cause there are many bikers) so i am ok near me.

Catherine

[short1uk]

Toby


is that at the BP / tesco shop near St Helens Crem on the A580 east lancs road?