Helmet on Fill Up

MCN · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2015 Karma :

You Can Leave Your Hat On
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conker · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 22 Mar 2013 Karma :

It mentions from inside your car a few times, they'll probably still get upset if you whip out your phone on the forecourt.

Michelle L · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 08 Aug 2015 Karma :

Do you mean leaving your helmet on while you fill up ?, I was chatting about this a week or so ago..

I always leave my helmet on and my face mask , I never take it off and never been asked to , I see signs all the time to take off your helmet..
I asked on the post if anyone had been asked to take off there helmets and no one replied..

However I have been asked to get off my phone on the forecourt so it is ok to use an app on there now , I like that idea Very Happy

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SQL · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Aug 2012 Karma :

Can anyone use this service?
If you have the Shell Motorist app or the PayPal app then you can use Fill Up & Go. For safety reasons, motorcyclists should not use the service. If you want to pay with a fuel card, or want to redeem fuel vouchers, then unfortunately you also won’t be able to use the service.

grr666 · Super Spammer Joined: 16 Jun 2014 Karma :

Never been told to take my lid off or to get off the bike when I'm filling it. I must just have sincere, honest looking eyes
and display a firm grip on my nozzle..
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Michelle L · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 08 Aug 2015 Karma :

That's funny , you display a firm grip on your hose Very Happy

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Diggs · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Karma :

Only ever been asked once and that was at our local 24h garage at 05.00 in the morning. 3 of us used to meet there on a Sunday so we could do the Leeds-Helmsley-Scarborough run with no traffic.

The chap explained that his boss made him pay for any losses due to people leaving without paying, and that he needed our faces to be recorded on camera for this reason. Fair enough. I explained that we had been coming here for years, hadn't ridden off without paying yet and that in reality he was at greater risk of people in cars and particularly vans 'doing one' as £75 of diesel is more attractive than £20 of petrol. I asked what kind of vehicles the hand-written list of reg. nos. behind the counter related to, and to his credit he said 'cars, vans and one scooter'. No big bikes then? I asked. 'No' came the reply.

By this point my mates had arrived, and he was still insisting that helmets be removed. We declined, advised him that we wouldn't be using the petrol station again and took our business elsewhere, me making it on fumes.

He won't care. I do as it means I have to get the bike out the night before now to fill up which is a bind. Nose/face springs to mind...
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Wonko The Sane · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Jan 2013 Karma :

ffs this place is like a time machine, this exact subject including app got discussed only a month or so ago

I've been leaving my helmet on to fill up for the past 2 years, the Asda near work, the one near home and the morrisons in the middle don't give a flying fuck if you're wearing a helmet, clown suit or whatever if you're using the pay at pump, they have your money before you can start taking fuel

the one near home doesn't even have any staff it's fully pay at pump

If you're that fussed about keeping helmets on embrace the automation.
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hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

I always leave my lid on, always have*

Possibly they are mesmerized by my norks and forget to demand I take it off.

Or it might just be my charming smile Angelic

* (unless I plan to buy food and drink from the shop)
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Wafer_Thin_Ham · Super Spammer Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Karma :

I just use pay at pump all the time now. Can't remember the last time I went inside to pay the pump jockey.
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Mobile phones have never caused explosions near petrol pumps because they don't emit enough power to create a spark. Scientific fact.

From https://blogthinkbig.com/why-is-the-use-of-mobile-phones-at-petrol-stations-prohibited/

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There is normally a period of 'Radio Silence' during industrial Blasting operations.
There is some notion that a radio can set off the charges.
In modern blasting cord it needs a sophisticated device to trigger the cord. The cord is like a thin plastic tube with a coating of cordite on the inner surface. The igniter lights a flame which propagates along the cord to a blasting cap in the initial charge which hammers the main bulk charge. That can be TNT/Semtex/Dynamite used to set off s Diesel fuel and fertilizer charge. Nothing between the igniter and the charge is radio sensitive.
Perhaps many years ago electric blast cord was used which the safety Nazis were crying about the chance in ten million. Sad

The reason there is that 'radio silence' is only for communications purposes.
To control the area needs several people over a wide distance and they use radios to confirm to the blasting Supervisor that the area is clear.
Someone nattering away on the radio interferes with the control of the security in the blast area.
Military ops. probably use a similar procedure but they'll just shoot any fucker who ignores the radio silence. Cool

I use my phone at the pump sometimes but have had a bawling from a 60-day Hagg-Lady for doing it. I finished my call and fucked off to the petrol station across the road. Caaaaunt. Twisted Evil

Never run near empty if you have any principles. Wink

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Dave70 · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Jan 2012 Karma :

I had the pump switched off on me a couple of months back while filling up. The female attendant/cashier was flapping her arms about and mouthing something from behind her glass window (obviously had no mic/speaker system or she didn't know how to use it).

When I went over to see what the problem was, she told me I wasn't allowed to fill up while sitting on the bike Confused

(She never mentioned anything about my lid though, which was what I was expecting. )

I explained that it is difficult to fill up properly if the bike is leaning on the sidestand and this way you can keep the bike upright. May as well have shown a card trick to a dog.

Ended up giving her the few quid I owed and went to fill up elsewhere. A few weeks later I was running low but, seeing as I'm a stubborn git I carried on past to fill up at the asda a few miles away. I ran out before I got there but, would probably do the same again Folded arms

but, hope to make it. Laughing

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FretGrinder · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jul 2010 Karma :

All I can see is a more complicated pay at pump service.

Surely getting your card out from your wallet/purse is a lot easier?
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ADSrox0r · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2012 Karma :

I remember seeing Mythbusters do an episode on mobile phones on forecourts years ago and they categorically proved that it's impossible to ignite anything with a cellular device.

Nothing but scaremongering and fluff. I always use my phone to take a picture of the mileage when I fill up (I use aCar app to track mpg and all that jazz) and have never once had anyone bat an eyelid.
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blurredman · World Chat Champion Joined: 18 Sep 2010 Karma :

I got told filling up in a Morrison's that next time to please take my lid off. I said, next time I'll be using Tesco down the road then..I had a stern look given to me, but never had issues really.
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