Why do people queue at petrol stations?

[daemon]

TooMany2cvs said:

daemon said:

TooMany2cvs said:

daemon said:

A lot of the hoses i've seen dont reach over from above, they come from out of the pump itself.

Still PLENTY long enough to reach around the average car.

Sure, there are instances where you can't fill from the wrong side - a van, f'rinstance, where the filler is behind the front door - but for 90+ of vehicles in the average filling station? Dead easy. IF you engage brain. Which, of course, is the usual problem.

They're designed to retract automatically so you're going to struggle to not have them hit your bodywork.

Thank you for proving my point. You have two working hands, do you not?

Yeah if you want to stand looking like Mr Bean in some sort of contortionist pose then it might be possible i guess.

Go you!

[Osinjak]

daemon said:

If theres already a queue, join the queue. Dont be a prick and decide your own rules on what that queue should be and drive round everybody.

Nice, I haven't been called a name on the internet for ages. You must have enormous testicles.

[Poopipe]

daemon said:

A lot of the hoses i've seen dont reach over from above, they come from out of the pump itself.

This position isnt getting enough support.

You can just about stretch it at tesco round here if you have a low or narrow car and park with your nose obstructing the exit corridor but the shell I use regularly you have no hope

[Patrick Bateman]

daemon said:

Yeah if you want to stand looking like Mr Bean in some sort of contortionist pose then it might be possible i guess.

Go you!

Eh? It's pretty easy, just as long as you park close enough and far enough forward.

[Hugo a Gogo]

oldcynic said:

Personally I'm interested to know how he's filled up twice in one day, but I drive a diesel so only fill up every other month.

start empty, fill, drive a long way, fill up again at the end of the day

glad to help with that one for you

[daemon]

Osinjak said:

daemon said:

If theres already a queue, join the queue. Dont be a prick and decide your own rules on what that queue should be and drive round everybody.

Nice, I haven't been called a name on the internet for ages. You must have enormous testicles.

But you seem happy to call others names in your original post?

[bunyarra]

Debaser said:

Is one car waiting by the entrance, a long way from the pumps, a queue?

No, is then quickly causes one ... f*wits do this every day in my area. To the point of stopping supermarket shoppers getting in.

[Matt UK]

otolith said:

Pushing the queue back off the forecourt and creating inconvenience and risk for people on the road is just selfish tttery. Pick a pump and drive up to it.

Agree. The queue starts at the pump, not the road.

When in the supermarket, you don't hold everyone else up and wait to see which of the next 20 checkouts will be free, you pick one and take your chances. You win some you lose some, it's part of the fun when making that split second decision!

People who hold up the entire forecourt and block the road are selfish and deserve to be driven around. Fun when the person behind them 'breaks the seal' and everyone in the road queue follows and we all pick a pump and wait, leaving the selfish 'blocker' going slowing purple and with a much longer wait on their hands.

[Phatboy317]

Whenever I encounter a queue at the petrol station, I simply drive on to the next one - rather than end up standing in the no-man's-land between the busy road and the end of the queue.
In my neck of the woods, I've often seen people queuing at the entrance to parking lots, very often causing huge tailbacks.
It's a similar effect to those people who move quickly through the entrance to a building to escape the rain, only to stop dead in their tracks as soon as they get just inside the entrance.
Or those who stop at the bottom of an escalator

[Mr2Mike]

daemon said:

If theres already a queue, join the queue. Dont be a prick and decide your own rules on what that queue should be and drive round everybody.

If people are so utterly, knuckle draggingly moronic that they would rather cause a massive queue out of the forecourt rather than queue behind a specific pump, then I will gladly drive past them without a second of guilt. This isn't about queuing etiquette, I wouldn't dream of trying to barge into a queue behind a pump.

[Mr2Mike]

daemon said:

I suppose you do the same in banks and post offices then?

One queue of people waiting for a window to be free and you just rock up and stand behind someone at a window?

Same thing isnt it?

Depends entirely on the bank. If there is space for queues behind each teller (e.g. like the majority of petrol stations have room behind each row of pumps), then this is how queues naturally form. If the bank/post office has put a barricade up to enforce a single queue for all the tellers (unlike the majority of petrol stations), then you join that.

Is that honestly too difficult to work out?

Patrick Bateman said:

Eh? It's pretty easy, just as long as you park close enough and far enough forward.

For the vast majority of vehicles it is (vans etc. might be problematic). However, this thread clearly shows that applying even a tiny level of mental exertion is way beyond a lot of people.

Edited by Mr2Mike on Sunday 19th October 12:00

[Wacky Racer]

I was in a Morrison's the other day in my motorhome.

There were six rows of two pumps with the paying booth at the front.

I was in the right hand "lane" at the rear pump filling up with £100 of diesel...(When I drove in I could not go to the pump in front of me because a bloke in a car was halfway through filling up his car.

Anyway, I filled up, was paying in the kiosk, when the guy that was in front of me drove away after paying leaving the pump in front of mine free.

I got back in my motorhome to drive away...(bear in mind there was nothing in front of me), started the engine, and a tt in a car pushed in in front of twenty odd people that were queuing near the entrance, drove round everyone and reversed into the pump in front of me JUST AS I WAS ABOUT TO DRIVE OFF...bear in mind by now there were about four cars queuing behind me....

I jumped out and told him to fk off in no uncertain terms..(and worse), by now other people were coming over from behind me to have a "word" with him.

He sheepishly got back in his car and had to go right to the back of the queue, (Where he should have been in the first place)

Knob.

[rb5er]

Osinjak said:

daemon said:

If theres already a queue, join the queue. Dont be a prick and decide your own rules on what that queue should be and drive round everybody.

Nice, I haven't been called a name on the internet for ages. You must have enormous testicles.

Indeed, tough man.

If there is one car waiting at the start of the pumps and blocking up access so other people can just wait behind an actual pump and stop queues out on to the road then they should not be surprised when people go around them to form a queue at the pumps rather than at the start of a line of pumps. Absolute idiots these people and the cause unnecessary traffic issues due to their ignorant behaviour.

Line of traffic onto the road due to their retarded behaviour, do people really think that is acceptable? Just pick a pump and stop causing problems.

[heebeegeetee]

Osinjak said:

Seriously, why? You know the ones, petrols station is busy and yet some complete mong, rather than just finding a pump to sit behind, sits in the entrance to the fuel station waiting for the next free pump. Twice today I've driven round these fking idiots and waited at a pump to fuel up. No grief, just full on stares (powerfully built fridge thrower and all that) but I just cannot understand people sometimes, just fking get on with it!

They're just waiting for the first available pump. It's a system used frequently at many places where queues might form, such as large stores or post offices etc.

scott15 said:

I don't understand why people queue for ages to have the pump on the correct side of their car. If the only free pumps or on the wrong side for my car, I just reverse in instead. The tutting and headshaking I receive by the people queuing just makes me laugh, as i've filled up an paid before they've even got to the pump they're waiting for

I just pull the hose around to the other side of the car.

[rb5er]

heebeegeetee said:

They're just waiting for the first available pump. It's a system used frequently at many places where queues might form, such as large stores or post offices etc.

So at a supermarket you just queue and block up all the checkouts so nobody can get to them do you rather than just pick on and wait until its clear?

[daemon]

rb5er said:

heebeegeetee said:

They're just waiting for the first available pump. It's a system used frequently at many places where queues might form, such as large stores or post offices etc.

So at a supermarket you just queue and block up all the checkouts so nobody can get to them do you rather than just pick on and wait until its clear?

Notice he said "frequently" and not "always"?

The big supermarkets do generally have "one queue" for self serve tills btw

[The Vambo]

daemon said:

I suppose you do the same in banks and post offices then?

One queue of people waiting for a window to be free and you just rock up and stand behind someone at a window?

Same thing isnt it?

I would jump the queue in the Bank if joining it meant standing in the middle of a main road.

Pick a pump and wait.

[daemon]

The Vambo said:

daemon said:

I suppose you do the same in banks and post offices then?

One queue of people waiting for a window to be free and you just rock up and stand behind someone at a window?

Same thing isnt it?

I would jump the queue in the Bank if joining it meant standing in the middle of a main road.

Pick a pump and wait.

Really, would you? Or would just come back another time or go elsewhere?

[Thankyou4calling]

I often find that less than half of a filling stations pumps are actually working.

They'll have four banks of three but only 5 pumps dispensing, it's very annoying.

[PHmember]

daemon said:

The big supermarkets do generally have "one queue" for self serve tills btw

True, but you wouldn't stand 15ft away from them & then wonder why somebody has walked in front of you.