Petrol Station Etiquette

[Howfen White]

Now, I don't know for sure as I've never worked at a petrol station, but I've always been under the impression that it's illegal to move your car before you've paid, and in any case, even if you did pull forward to let the person behind pull up to the pump, the assistant isn't going to authorise the pump for use again until the amount owing against it's been paid anyway.

I've always thought that, that's why I don't move my car. What's stopping someone, if you move your car, from picking the pump back up, and filling up theirs while you queue to pay?

[The Ghost of Burnden]

so what about petrol stations at supermarkets where you DO have to move your car to pay the bill???

[Vincents Candelabra]

so what about petrol stations at supermarkets where you DO have to move your car to pay the bill???

Oh, you'll have to educate me there, for I know of not any!

[The Ghost of Burnden]

Best example is ASDA at Astley Bridge!  When you have filled your car up you have to drive to the kiosk to pay them, unlike the old Texaco garage further up Blackburn Road (near Andrew Lane), where you lock your car up and go into the kiosk to pay for the fuel (btw is that Texaco still there???)

[Vincents Candelabra]

Best example is ASDA at Astley Bridge!  When you have filled your car up you have to drive to the kiosk to pay them, unlike the old Texaco garage further up Blackburn Road (near Andrew Lane), where you lock your car up and go into the kiosk to pay for the fuel (btw is that Texaco still there???)

Ah, to be honest, the only one that I could think of was ASDA at Astley Bridge when the petrol bit was behind The Edge, and you used to have to pull up alongside the kiosk to pay. Do they still operate the same system?
The Texaco station at the bottom of Sharples Avenue is now a BP station with a Spar/Costcutter type of shop going on.
When I was a kid, the bottom of Sharples Avenue was an absolute hive of retail activity. Turner's Post Office, Bateson's the Butchers next door, Robinson's Newsagents and then the greengrocers (the names escape me though). Also, facing them was a little Co-op.
Blimey - I feel the need for a MacEwans Chew, a Jubbly, a Vimto cup drink and a packet of Toffee Cigarettes (whatever were they thinking of with those things by the way?  )

[The Ghost of Burnden]

Best example is ASDA at Astley Bridge!  When you have filled your car up you have to drive to the kiosk to pay them, unlike the old Texaco garage further up Blackburn Road (near Andrew Lane), where you lock your car up and go into the kiosk to pay for the fuel (btw is that Texaco still there???)

Ah, to be honest, the only one that I could think of was ASDA at Astley Bridge when the petrol bit was behind The Edge, and you used to have to pull up alongside the kiosk to pay. Do they still operate the same system?
The Texaco station at the bottom of Sharples Avenue is now a BP station with a Spar/Costcutter type of shop going on.
When I was a kid, the bottom of Sharples Avenue was an absolute hive of retail activity. Turner's Post Office, Bateson's the Butchers next door, Robinson's Newsagents and then the greengrocers (the names escape me though). Also, facing them was a little Co-op.
Blimey - I feel the need for a MacEwans Chew, a Jubbly, a Vimto cup drink and a packet of Toffee Cigarettes (whatever were they thinking of with those things by the way?  )

Last time I was home (September) it is the same operation they use - they seem to use the same system at most of their garages - middlebrook being an exemption

Yesteryear - the good days, I used to remember a fantastic sweet shop further up Andrew Lane before the cobbled bit down to Eagley and then there was a great corner shop opposite the tennis courts at Bank Top (next to the old nursery school and farm yard!!!)

[Howfen White]

Best example is ASDA at Astley Bridge!  When you have filled your car up you have to drive to the kiosk to pay them, unlike the old Texaco garage further up Blackburn Road (near Andrew Lane), where you lock your car up and go into the kiosk to pay for the fuel (btw is that Texaco still there???)

The one at Middlebrook is the same, what I'm on about is the ones where people fill up, get in their car, drive forward, get out of their car and then pay!

[jimbo_bwfc]

As it goes there is currently a case on Judge Judy  of someone suing someone for not moving their veee-hickle at a 'gas station'.

So the other person took matters into their own hands got out of their truck and punched the car until they moved. When the person got out to 'investigate the dints in their car' the angry guy just knocked him out.

I shall let you know the results. If he's found not guilty then petrol station parkers beware you can legally get the shíte kicked out of you if you don't move quick enough.