View Poll Results: What do you think of petrol stations having fancy coffee machines installed? Is it:
A pain in the ****ing backside because you have to wait half an ****ing hour for the car blocking the pumps to move whilst the driver creates the perfect skinny decaf frothamoccachino, then casually browses the magazines and chooses a sandwich before finally paying and getting out of the bloody way?
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Fancy coffee machines
I share your pain to an extent but as someone who often worries where their next double espresso is coming from, I do rely on them quite often...
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Have to say I don't like petrol stations being turned into the 21st Century equivalent of corner shops. I don't want to see people doing their weekly shop when I'm queuing up to buy my petrol.
You can buy your food in a supermarket, I can't buy my petrol anywhere else
You can buy your food in a supermarket, I can't buy my petrol anywhere else
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Originally Posted by j8mie,Jun 15 2009, 11:04 PM
Have to say I don't like petrol stations being turned into the 21st Century equivalent of corner shops. I don't want to see people doing their weekly shop when I'm queuing up to buy my petrol.
You can buy your food in a supermarket, I can't buy my petrol anywhere else
You can buy your food in a supermarket, I can't buy my petrol anywhere else
And with petrol, you get the petrol before you realise how long the queue is. So you can't even say "sod this" and walk away.
What annoys me most is when there's a big queue for the one till that's open serving all the people buying petrol AND all the people doing their groceries, and yet there's three of the staff stood by the crap coffee/stale croissants counter with no-one to serve.
But at least pay@pump is becoming more widespread and now seems to actually work (which it never did in the early days).
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Get used to it because it's not going to change - and will doubtless get worse as service stations try to find other things they can sell.
There's precious little margin in selling petrol so they make their money in the shops. A bit like cinemas, who make bugger all from showing the films and rely on flogging you a 7 gallon vat of Coke and a binbag full of popcorn.
(Sitting at a pump waiting for someone to return from doing their shopping irks me too. And women who sit in the car sorting out the contents of their purse and doing their hair before they drive off from the pump. Sort your life out somewhere else!
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There's precious little margin in selling petrol so they make their money in the shops. A bit like cinemas, who make bugger all from showing the films and rely on flogging you a 7 gallon vat of Coke and a binbag full of popcorn.
(Sitting at a pump waiting for someone to return from doing their shopping irks me too. And women who sit in the car sorting out the contents of their purse and doing their hair before they drive off from the pump. Sort your life out somewhere else!
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We should do what they do in Europe and have more pay at pumps.
Then you make a few lanes exclusively for petrol purchases only, no shopping as such, and that would sort a lot of the problems.
Then you make a few lanes exclusively for petrol purchases only, no shopping as such, and that would sort a lot of the problems.
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At my local garage there is only one Super pump, and you can guarantee the person who's car is stopped there is inside doing their weekly shop and making me queue up for 20 minutes - Arrrrrrrrrrggggggggg