Dodgy Lambo drivers....not credit worthy for petrol!
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Here's a new one for me, on the one hand mildly amusing but on the other slightly frustrating and violence inducing incident:
I was up in Knutsford yesterday for the day, and just about to set back to Herts. at around 5pm. When I pulled up at the Esso station (Toft Rd) for a quick splash....
The attendants wouldn't authorise my pump as I stood there holding the pump (it looked like they were all flustered about something as they conversed together first!), then one of them (a ginger haired version of that slightly retarded young lad that hangs by the pool in the latest series of Benidorm) came bounding out....
"you have no front plate, you have no front plate...we cannot sell you petrol in case you drive off and our number plate camera's dont get you"
I'm stood there next to the best part of £200k's worth of Lambo in slight disbelief at this point....
This utter jobsworth then proceeded to walk to the back of my car, write down my plate on a scrap of paper....then check my tax disc to see if it tallied up!! FFS
Then he utters "£900 odd quid road tax, you dont care much for the environment then eh?!, whats the CO2 on that?!"
Words failed me
What a nob end.
I was up in Knutsford yesterday for the day, and just about to set back to Herts. at around 5pm. When I pulled up at the Esso station (Toft Rd) for a quick splash....
The attendants wouldn't authorise my pump as I stood there holding the pump (it looked like they were all flustered about something as they conversed together first!), then one of them (a ginger haired version of that slightly retarded young lad that hangs by the pool in the latest series of Benidorm) came bounding out....
"you have no front plate, you have no front plate...we cannot sell you petrol in case you drive off and our number plate camera's dont get you"
I'm stood there next to the best part of £200k's worth of Lambo in slight disbelief at this point....
This utter jobsworth then proceeded to walk to the back of my car, write down my plate on a scrap of paper....then check my tax disc to see if it tallied up!! FFS
Then he utters "£900 odd quid road tax, you dont care much for the environment then eh?!, whats the CO2 on that?!"
Words failed me
What a nob end.
"Then he utters "£900 odd quid road tax" 
f
king how much!
"you dont care much for the environment then eh?!, whats the CO2 on that?!"
I hope you had a suitibly witty come back in order to put the dick in his place or at least have paid somebody to kick the st out of him would cost considerably less than the road tax. How much!
fk me my flabber is still gasted. How the fk do they justify asking that much for fking road tax. That is the most shocking thing I have read in ages. wkers burn the fking lot of them.
fking how much! "you dont care much for the environment then eh?!, whats the CO2 on that?!"
I hope you had a suitibly witty come back in order to put the dick in his place or at least have paid somebody to kick the s
t out of him would cost considerably less than the road tax. How much!f
k me my flabber is still gasted. How the fk do they justify asking that much for fking road tax. That is the most shocking thing I have read in ages. wkers burn the fking lot of them.Edited by Pesty on Sunday 8th May 13:02
What a bell end.
Mosi, what you should have said was is "fine, hold on there just a minute" and proceeded to turn the car around so that the plate on the rear was to the cameras !
On a similar note, a year+ ago I pulled up in the fuel station in the Cerbera and had a similar situation. The attendant came out who's Queen's English was considerably below par and said something very similar. I won't repeat on here as to what my reply was but, needless to say he went straight back in and turned the pump on for me. Now the Cerb is no Lambo but he was staring at the car opened mouthed and had clearly never seen one.
Mosi, what you should have said was is "fine, hold on there just a minute" and proceeded to turn the car around so that the plate on the rear was to the cameras !
On a similar note, a year+ ago I pulled up in the fuel station in the Cerbera and had a similar situation. The attendant came out who's Queen's English was considerably below par and said something very similar. I won't repeat on here as to what my reply was but, needless to say he went straight back in and turned the pump on for me. Now the Cerb is no Lambo but he was staring at the car opened mouthed and had clearly never seen one.
ZOLLAR said:
Henry Hawthorne said:
Mosi] said:
Then he utters "£900 odd quid road tax, you dont care much for the environment then eh?!, whats the CO2 on that?!"
Says the guy selling you petrol... What a knob end indeed.
Playing Devils Advocate they are probably trained not to authorise pumps for people not displaying a front numberplate. The stty road tax comment aside the point made about possibility of bilking is a valid one, I'm sure they probably don't have a little black book for listing exceptions to this rule if the owner is wearing a suit, or driving an expensive car, or is doing a handstand or something.
tty road tax comment aside the point made about possibility of bilking is a valid one, I'm sure they probably don't have a little black book for listing exceptions to this rule if the owner is wearing a suit, or driving an expensive car, or is doing a handstand or something.UH-Matt said:
Iain and me both had the same treatment at South Mimms when we both pulled in with the Gallardo's (neither running front plates)..
What is it with these bloody plates that keep falling off Matt.Its bloody annoying
You'd think Lambo would sort it....they just ping off as soon as you hit 70mph!
Very frustrating
Pesty said:
"Then he utters "£900 odd quid road tax" fking how much!
"you dont care much for the environment then eh?!, whats the CO2 on that?!"
I hope you had a suitibly witty come back in order to put the dick in his place or at least have paid somebody to kick the st out of him would cost considerably less than the road tax. How much!
fk me my flabber is still gasted. How the fk do they justify asking that much for fking road tax. That is the most shocking thing I have read in ages. wkers burn the fking lot of them.
The good news is that if you try to claim the road tax back in the first year from DVLA they only refund against £450 and keep the rest. Perhaps you should have pointed out to the t%$^sser that your £900 will help pay his uneployment benefit once he loses his job for being such a rude bas!"%^d!! fking how much! "you dont care much for the environment then eh?!, whats the CO2 on that?!"
I hope you had a suitibly witty come back in order to put the dick in his place or at least have paid somebody to kick the s
t out of him would cost considerably less than the road tax. How much!f
k me my flabber is still gasted. How the fk do they justify asking that much for fking road tax. That is the most shocking thing I have read in ages. wkers burn the fking lot of them.Edited by Pesty on Sunday 8th May 13:02
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