Filled up my car today and while there this Chav (just wearing shorts and a helmet) pulled up filled up to £2.08 I know this as it was so short I glanced over.

Now how far can a scooter go with £2.08 worth of fuel?
Why would you waste your time putting such a trivial amount in?
Also it didn't appear to be en route as he went back the way he came so possibly a trip just to put in £2.08.


He also didn't buy anything from the shop so simply the £2.08.

I dd think it was min 2ltr delivery as well

Lastly the pump wasn't dry as next punter put in unleaded from that pump into the car.



So can anyone explain this is it usual to chavs

That bike must have cost him what £2k plus yet he cannot afford the fuel to run the thing?? Madness.


Edit to delete a rather foolish irrelevant statement.

It is a considerable amount of money if your on minimum wage!! That scooter could have cost him under £500. And could well be the only financial way to get him on the road. As they are: £12 a year to tax, peanuts to insure and as said get 140+mpg. How can you not comprehend that people out there, a week before the end of the month, maybe have other priorities like putting food on the table for their family come before putting more than the required fuel in the bike?

Indeed, in 2011, the median salary in the UK was just over £26k

You might be speaking for yourself but that's a bit of a silly comment considering what the average salary in this country is. And it's a relatively massive salary out of school/college/Uni, I would wager that the majority of 16 year old lads riding scooters earn nowhere near that!!

How ironic...a finance manager who doesn't know the value of money.

It's nearly double the UK average.

Perhaps it's close to his pay day. Perhaps the lad is working hard to earn the minimum wage. Perhaps he needed enough to get him to his shift to knock up your foie gras pizza?

Presumably the bike was taxed and insured and he paid for his fuel so good on him.

I dread to think what people say about me when all I've got in my pocket is a fiver and I need a bit of diesel :hangs head in shame:

Joke, right?

I sometimes only put ten quid's worth in my car, which is probably less proportionally.

Unfortunately I also pay in cash, which a recent thread suggested makes me a chav.

Clearly looking for a reaction. I can't bring myself to believe anyone earning over 40k would be daft enough to say something like that, which for what it's worth is an absolutely ridiculous statement, not accounting for inflation, I would be more than happy if 40k was the highest wage I earn in my life.