I pushed in the petrol station queue! apparently...
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For those of you that know it - the massive tesco at Watford. All the pumps were occupied, apart from one at the front. So after waiting at another pump for a bit (and all the people taking forever), I zoomed through the middle and reversed into it. The pump before it had some old doddery bloke who was still in the shop, and a truck behind it blocking access to drive past it (the truck was waiting until old bloke came back and retrieved his car). I did a pic so you could see 
I start filling up and next thing I know mr angry
has got out his car to have a go at me because 'there's a queue you know!'. eh? say I. 'We are queuing and you come and pushed in' etc. I try to explain that it's a waste having an empty pump, but he's having none of it and storms off back to his car.
Anyway, 75 quid to fill up! daylight robbery
I start filling up and next thing I know mr angry
has got out his car to have a go at me because 'there's a queue you know!'. eh? say I. 'We are queuing and you come and pushed in' etc. I try to explain that it's a waste having an empty pump, but he's having none of it and storms off back to his car. Anyway, 75 quid to fill up! daylight robbery
I never know what to do at petrol stations. Start a queue for a specific pair of pumps, or hang back and start a queue for whichever is the next available pump? The latter makes more sense as people will have to wait less time on average, but someone normally drives around me and queues for a specific pump.
jamei303 said:
I never know what to do at petrol stations. Start a queue for a specific pair of pumps, or hang back and start a queue for whichever is the next available pump? The latter makes more sense as people will have to wait less time on average, but someone normally drives around me and queues for a specific pump.
If there is enough space then I do the 2nd and make others wait. Same for car parking spaces tbh.However, busy entry road and potential to block others it makes sense to just queue for pumps in lines.
jamei303 said:
I never know what to do at petrol stations. Start a queue for a specific pair of pumps, or hang back and start a queue for whichever is the next available pump? The latter makes more sense as people will have to wait less time on average, but someone normally drives around me and queues for a specific pump.
This is why I use expensive petrol stations. Never have a problem there.However, when presented with this dilemma, I do usually try to position myself in a way as to indicate to new queue joiner behind me that I'm wanting to take whichever pump comes up next, but as you rightly point out some tart always decides they'll go for a specific pump lane and, according to Sod's Law, "their" pump lane will always be the first one to free up.
I'd have told him to go f
k himself, a close analysis of your rather splendid diagram reveals technically you're in front of him (if on the wrong side of the pumps), you're not preventing him from using the pump because he can't get to it (because of the truck). Bloody supermarkets in petrol stations that's the problem.
k himself, a close analysis of your rather splendid diagram reveals technically you're in front of him (if on the wrong side of the pumps), you're not preventing him from using the pump because he can't get to it (because of the truck). Bloody supermarkets in petrol stations that's the problem.jamei303 said:
I never know what to do at petrol stations. Start a queue for a specific pair of pumps, or hang back and start a queue for whichever is the next available pump? The latter makes more sense as people will have to wait less time on average, but someone normally drives around me and queues for a specific pump.
The later also normally ends up with cars queuing on the main road. Look at it this way, when you go to Tescos do you queue in one big line waiting for the next free till?
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