Leaving the engine running when away from your car...?
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New member, long-time lurker! For my sins, I'm working a few nightshifts at a petrol station at the arse end of Nedsville, Scotland....some very strange sights to be seen but one recent phenomenon's got me mildly bemused!
Pretty much at least once or twice a shift someone'll leave the engine running, and usually driver's door open, stereo blaring and lights on, while ambling in for overpriced cigarettes and nasty energy drinks...usually while there's other cars on the forecourt and other chavs and chavettes milling around. Anything from boy racer-mobiles to mumwagons to expensive BMWs. They're doing it deliberately, and out of line-of-sight most of the time they're in the shop...I've even had to argue for ten minutes with a PBCD-type that he had to turn the engine off while filling up – you'd think I'd asked him to defenestrate a kitten!
Any wiser PH-ers able to shed some light? Is this now a fashionable 'thing' like hand on the wheel at 11'o'clock, or alternating foglights?
Pretty much at least once or twice a shift someone'll leave the engine running, and usually driver's door open, stereo blaring and lights on, while ambling in for overpriced cigarettes and nasty energy drinks...usually while there's other cars on the forecourt and other chavs and chavettes milling around. Anything from boy racer-mobiles to mumwagons to expensive BMWs. They're doing it deliberately, and out of line-of-sight most of the time they're in the shop...I've even had to argue for ten minutes with a PBCD-type that he had to turn the engine off while filling up – you'd think I'd asked him to defenestrate a kitten!
Any wiser PH-ers able to shed some light? Is this now a fashionable 'thing' like hand on the wheel at 11'o'clock, or alternating foglights?
ambuletz said:
Can't understand why you would do it really. But it's meant to be a very common thing in japan, mainly as people leave it running to keep their air con running.
Yeh, but you can collapse drunk on the pavement in Japan and drop all your money. When you come to, it will have been tidied up for you and put in your top pocket.I also saw a kid passed out in a bus shelter with his iphone on the seat. It would be there in the morning.
KTF said:
What is this fad that has passed me buy?
Wiring your front foglights so that they only come on when you turn - left one on when you turn left, etc. First few times I told them their lights were faulty in case they didn't know...turns out it's intentional! Might just be confined to Fife hillbillies...KTF said:
What is this fad that has passed me buy?
I think he's referring to the popular habit of leaving your front fog lights on all the time to remind everyone that your car is top spec, until it actually gets foggy, whereby you don't bother with any lights at all.EDIT: Oh! Weird. A lot of effort for little gain surely?
pumpmonkey said:
KTF said:
What is this fad that has passed me buy?
Wiring your front foglights so that they only come on when you turn - left one on when you turn left, etc. First few times I told them their lights were faulty in case they didn't know...turns out it's intentional! Might just be confined to Fife hillbillies...pumpmonkey said:
Wiring your front foglights so that they only come on when you turn - left one on when you turn left, etc. First few times I told them their lights were faulty in case they didn't know...turns out it's intentional! Might just be confined to Fife hillbillies...
You know this is pretty common on new cars?I may be due a parrot...
pumpmonkey said:
Wiring your front foglights so that they only come on when you turn - left one on when you turn left, etc. First few times I told them their lights were faulty in case they didn't know...turns out it's intentional! Might just be confined to Fife hillbillies...
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