Petrol Station Rant - **With a Reply from Mr. Tesco**

[CaNsA]

So there I am at the pump which i have had to queue 10mins for at Tescos, LITHERLAND, HAWTHORNE ROAD, LITHERLAND, MERSEYSIDE, L21 8NZ.

Pull out my wallet, pop the card in the pump, enter pin, remove card, lift nozzle, place in tank, look at the pump display and it says "No Fuel Dispensed Replace Nozzle"

Then i hear over the tannoy "would pump twelve please remove the helmet"

I waved my card, she waved her hands...

I get of my bike, remove my lid and walk in to the kiosk, they have a sign about lids in the kiosk.

I ask her why i need to remove my lid.
She moans about "drive-offs"
I reply with "I am using Pay @ Pump"
Bint - "We need to verify your age, you need to be over 25"
Me, knowing i am wrong - "i thought the legal age was 18"
Bint - "It's 16"
Me - "thanks, you have just contradicted yourself"

I walk (storm out in a huff) of the kiosk, get back on the bike and go over to the supermarket so i can speak with the store manager.

He comes on over.

I ask him why i was asked to remove my lid, even though i was using the Pay @ Pump facility. And what is the point of me using this facility if it isnt going to save me any time what so ever.

He says something about there being a "Look 25" policy across all stores.

I mention that i have used several tesco petrol stations around liverpool with no problem what so ever. I can understand, to a point, about removing my lid before entering the kiosk but to be refused petrol on the forecourt when using the pay@pump is ridiculous.
I asked, if the person wants to verify my age then they should come over and ask to see my driving licence.
I should not be discriminated against for riding a motorbike.
I use the pay @ pump facility as I dont have to remove my lid as there is no need for me to go in store.

I pointed out that the petrol station is on a main route to the local bike meet. I also remind him of what happened to Asda when bikers were treated unfairly.

He apologises for my "experience" and says he will have a word with the bint.

I still want to write an angry complaint letter, so any help with that would be ace.

I am fuming, proper fuming!

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[Easter Bunny]

Nope very valid point completely contradicts their reasons for taking your lid off in the first place, for standing your ground!

Take some good karma to conter act any bad recieved!
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[hellbound]

I was asked to remove my face up helmet (or whatever the fuck they are called) I may have lost my temper saying "No, the only bit of me thats dry right now is my head and I plan to keep it that way!
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[Hyaon]

I take mine off even at those stations, perhaps they want your face seen by security cameras/store worker in case you used a stolen/fake credit card? dunno...I still save time even with helmet off and having to stop my hearing aids falling out putting it back on.

At least you don't have to stand in a queue whilst people go 'petrol...wait! milk...crisps...a mint..plastic washers too...1..2....3...3.50....4.....5....6..........6.33 *hands over* and a lottery ticket too please.'
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[stinkwheel]

If you're not old enough to be filling up with petrol, you're not old enough to be driving. Logic dictates anyone who drives into the filling station is old enough to be dispensing petrol.

EDIT:
In the situation you describe, unless my tank was bone dry, I'd have got back on the bike and gone elsewhere.
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[pinkyfloyd]

Like yourself I always use Pay@Pump for the conveinence ofnothaving to remove my lid. Never had a problem at my local Tescrap and I'd be pissed if they did start that rubbish.
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[Skudd]

The Tesco petrol station just up the road doesn't even bother if you walk in the station kiosk with your lid on. Although the shop did tell my then 10yr old son to remove his lid when walking into the store with me and I had already removed mine. You could tell he was just a child with his Dad.

I now drop the pump nozzle on the floor when told to remove my lid by a station over the tannoy system and then just ride off leaving them to sort it out.
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[L4Isoside]

So what happened at asda?

[swiftb]

I love all this bollox, never ever experienced anything like it up here in t North East. Must be a lot more laid back and a lot less jobsworth up here. Every petrol station ive ever used in the north east, north yorkshire, across to the lakes ive never ever been asked to remove lid. Always keep my lid on, ive walked in to many stations, had a mooch round the shop, chatted with the clerks not once any mention of the lid.
Quite frankly it would probably piss me off to so I feel your pain.

[Skudd]

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[Barry_M2]

In Hertfordshire we have people fill our cars and bikes up for us while another person massages our feet.

You northern scum!

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[27cows]

Certain places have certain rules. For example, Sainsbury's have an acknowledged policy of not making motorcyclists remove lids. Though I don't trust supermarket fuel particularly

Total have a draconian lids off policy and tend to employ knuckle dragging morons - I've long boycotted their filling stations.

Read somewhere that unless it's explicitly stated on or near the pumps that you won't be served if you don't remove your lid, they haven't got a leg to stand on. Most annoying is when they authorize the pump, they berate you for not removing your lid when you go to pay.

This lids off bollocks is just another load of nanny state nonsense. The very idea of being asked to remove your lid at a petrol station would have seemed ridiculous not long ago.
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[Rogerborg]

Would they require you to remove a niqab? If not, wear one under your lid. https://www.redmeso.net/owbase/ow/images/icons/emoticon-ninja.gif
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[WildGoose]

Defeats the whole purpose of pay at pump I would have thought, it is supposed to be independant of approval from the kiosk monkeys surely?

Hasn't happened to me in a long time, but another vote here for dropping the pump on the floor and buggering off. Would love to see it happen, now i've got the Enfield. Not something your average troublesome yoot is likely to be riding.

Just another overly corporate policy creating a problem/solution out of something that was never a problem in the first place.

As for the age excuse, when was it their job to enforce the age thing, you can buy petrol at 16, are you going to be on a motorbike if you are younger than that? Slim chances i'd say, though not impossible. It's like the self important people at the post office issuing a tax disc, giving it the big eyeball over your insurance certificate/mot. Who has never stood there thinking, "do you even know what you are looking at on there" as they have that glazed over expression.

One thing guaranteed to piss me off is when attempting to reason with someone they will just hold their hands up, "not me mate, elf and safety" or "company policy". Were these morons born with the ability to think or have they completely surrendered their independence to planet tesco?

Pretty sure it always comes down to somebody having told you to do something, you didnt comply, they feel slighted, and thus more problems ensue as their pride is damaged. Everybody in these positions likes to have power over somebody else, a desire in magnitude usually inversely proportional to the actual importance of the job.
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So in other words, he stopped you for being flagrantly in posession of a motorcycle in direct contravention of the Hippies, Darkies and People Whose Face I Don't Like The Look of (Police Powers) Act. 1976

[27cows]

[bikertomm]

What about a burka?

What's the thing with the slit in where you can just see the eyes? You'd be unstoppable!


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[WildGoose]

[Clanger]

[potato]

Haven't had this happen to me in a while, but when it does it really does piss me off.
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