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Original poster

To sit at the petrol pump for half an hour?!

173 replies

honeybeeridiculous · 17/07/2014 19:07

Right, just been to put some petrol in my car. Pulled up at a pump, started to put petrol in, only £20 so it didn't take long.
Meanwhile white van man pulled up behind me, the pump was closed so he was waiting to use my pump, fair enough
Anyway, I went into shop to pay, 2 people infront of me, all straightforward and quick.
I go back to my car after paying and white van man was revving his engine and getting closer and closer to my car, this is before I got in the car Shock
I get in the car and he continues to rev the engine and then beeped his horn.
I was about to pull away, but the rage got me so I just sat there, got my sunglasses out and put them on, zipped my bag up etc as he was being so rude! After 2 mins I pulled away as I thought he might get out and thump me!
But honestly, how rude!
Just wondered WWYD? WIBU?

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AscoyneDAscoyne · 17/07/2014 20:01

OP, Yanbu

As an aside, my mind is boggling today. The phrase "white van man" is in common usage. I am definitely wc and find it strange that anyone would regard this phrase as as sneer against the wc.

Don't the mc drive vans then? Hmm

Hissy · 17/07/2014 20:02

I'd have 'remembered something' and popped back into the shop...
:)

Missunreasonable · 17/07/2014 20:03

White van man exists at my sons prep school (quite a few of them). I wonder what class they fall into winnibago

Hissy · 17/07/2014 20:04

I'd have 'remembered something' and popped back into the shop...
:)

Then i'd have waited my turn to speak to the cashiers no, YOU go first and then i'd have reported him to the forecourt manager for being threatening and that I now felt too intimidated to be in a car that was being menaced by him..

Bowlersarm · 17/07/2014 20:09

White man van is not aimed at the working classes.

FGS, we aren't going to able to use any normal terms on MN at this rate. There is always someone who comes along to pick apart the phrases an OP in particular uses.

TheWickerWoman · 17/07/2014 20:12

Well said, Bowlersarm!

It's a term that's been around for years to describe someone who drives a white van for a living or indeed any van. There's absolutely nothing in it other than description.... No one has bought class into it other than those that are questioning it.

MrsWinnibago · 17/07/2014 20:16

It is aimed at the working classes.

Original poster
honeybeeridiculous · 17/07/2014 20:18

He could have been a multi millionaire with a Bentley in his drive and just using the white van as a runaround. He was still an aggressive knob Grin

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dingalong · 17/07/2014 20:19

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libertytrainers · 17/07/2014 20:20

people are hot and arsey in cars at the moment i had some twonk flash at me and honk as i wasn't going fast enough or something i pulled over to let her pass, silly cow.

as an aside i drive vans sometimes and it is very hard to find a van in a colour other than white Grin

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 17/07/2014 20:30

Erm ... a 'white van man' is a man in a white van. That is, the sort of van used for loads of businesses. It's not about the man's skin colour! Hmm Have you people never watched Top Gear?! It's really not a MN phrase in origin, it's decades old!

OP, I am right with you in spirit, but I think you were a bit daft in reality as people will have been waiting behind the guy in the van, plus, you were in the wrong to wait once you were done.

Personally, I prefer to believe that these poor sods have very faulty handbreaks so they can't help but rev every time they move off - it's that or their tiny penises ...

Original poster
honeybeeridiculous · 17/07/2014 20:31

ding Grin Grin

DH has just pointed out to me that DD does indeed drive a white van in her job, albeit a small one. I guess she's white van woman Hmm

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OwlCapone · 17/07/2014 20:31

Why was I rude owl?

Deliberately messing about in order to piss him off.

Original poster
honeybeeridiculous · 17/07/2014 20:39

owl I think if I had gone to his window and said 'excuse me sir but would you mind awfully not revving your engine at me, I was only paying for my fuel'' I think he may have spat in my face! Or worse. But I get that I should not have played him at his own game, but it was only a 2 minute delay to his day.
And he deserved it Grin

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OwlCapone · 17/07/2014 20:45

Where did I say you should go and talk to him?

Personally I would have just ignored him and driven off in good time, just as I would any other time I use a petrol station.

fluffyraggies · 17/07/2014 20:47

I'd have been tempted to get back out the car, cheerily mouth ''2 minutes - sorry'' and pop back into the shop! What could he have done?? Non-confrontational. And yet utterly annoying Grin

revealall · 17/07/2014 21:23

I think driving has a lot of delays and annoyances. If someone does something stupid I wouldn't beep them for example. Everyone drives like a cock at some point or another.
Likewise I would assume the white van man had a lot of driving to do and was probably already late a d a bit cross due to picking the lane with the closed pump. Yes he was acting like a tool but it is really annoying being stuck behind someone.

Original poster
honeybeeridiculous · 17/07/2014 21:29

But I waited while the person before me did their petrol,shop etc and I managed not to turn into a raging cock!
I was also hot, tired and hungry and Just finished work, and had broken aircon Sad
I managed to wait patiently as I needed petrol

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RevoltingPeasant · 17/07/2014 21:35

My decorator drives a white van. He is not WC.

My mother drives a Ford Torneo. She is not WC.

I assume it is about people in large vehicles who do a lot of driving for work thinking they own the rosa and trying to intimidate people in smaller cars.

RevoltingPeasant · 17/07/2014 21:35

*road

Hissy · 17/07/2014 21:39

I had a London Bus try to bully me once. I slowed down before a junction, got through just as it turned yellow/red and he got stuck there while I pootled off into the happy shiny distance.

Happy days.

fluffymouse · 17/07/2014 21:40

What twatish behavior. Yanbu to faff for a bit, this kind of behavior should not 'win'.

As a new driver, the first time I tried to fill my car with petrol, I pulled into a pump on the wrong side. I got out, realised my error, and started to reverse to go into the correct pump, when a twatish driver pulled up behind me. He told me he wasn't going to let me push in (doesn't matter I was there first, and sounded rather preschool to me). I got out the car, in a non aggressive, what am I going to do kind of way. There was no way go forwards and round back to the pumps in this station. Luckily a lovely man (an arsenal fan) told him to stop being a Dick.

Ilovenewts · 17/07/2014 21:59

I had a bus try and bully me too. He cut me up queuing to get into an island by pulling around me by driving on the pavement to get in front of me. I really really should have taken his number plate.

Instead I pulled round him as he stopped to let people off. I knew he'd be trying to turn right at the next set of two lane traffic lights. So I sat there across both lanes in front if the fucker and waved at him. Then waited for the lights to turn before pulling away so he had to wait again.

chocolatemademefat · 17/07/2014 22:21

No one asked you Mrs Winnibago. Go and read your Daily Mail.