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AIBU?

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

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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
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?

OP posts:

Icimoi · 20/07/2014 20:42

He was probably in a rush, and you decided to be a tosser and hold him up. He may have had to be at a job, yet you decide to sit there and hold him up, maybe making him late. maybe he had to be somewhere and his wage depended on it.

More fool him if that were the case. If he had something that important to do, he should have filled up the night before. If you go into a petrol station, you must know that the deal is that you may have to wait, and plan accordingly. It's not as if revving your engine achieves anything except wasting fuel - in this sort of situation it really is never going to make the driver in front move away a second before h's good and ready.

bumbleymummy · 20/07/2014 20:58

The pumps can be used again here - they just look back through the 'history' on the pump. I think there's a limit for how many times it can be used but it does allow for people to pull forward into a parking bay and then shop if they need to without holding people up.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 20/07/2014 21:06

Oh, that's very clever, I could do with that here. Better than pay at pump which annoys me.

bumbleymummy · 20/07/2014 22:51

I love pay at the pump! I will actually drive out of my way to use the stations that have it. (Unless I need to pick something up in the shop as well)

TSSDNCOP · 20/07/2014 22:55

WVM has nothing to do with class and everything to do with being a total wanker.

TSSDNCOP · 20/07/2014 22:57

bumbly I love a pay at the pump too.

Nothing induces The Rage so much as a person who uses the PATP and then saunters into the shop!!!!!!!!

bumbleymummy · 20/07/2014 23:08

The cheek! :)

Vintagejazz · 20/07/2014 23:22

Not normally keen on stereotyping people according to their car; but 90% of knobs seem to drive BMWs.

Anniegetyourgun · 21/07/2014 01:09

I would love pay at the pump if it wasn't out of order more often than it works in my local garage. And they seem to be running out of my favourite petrol rather a lot lately. Humph. (Perhaps I should say my car's favourite petrol, otherwise it could sound as though I drink it.)

I think a clear distinction needs to be drawn between men driving white vans, and White Van Man. There are lots of men in white vans who cause no trouble at all. They are not White Van Men unless and until they start to behave like yahoos. Conversely, someone could be in a red panel truck but still be a White Van Man (as in "ooh look, White Van Man has had a spray job, but he's still a dick").

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 21/07/2014 01:26

No pay at pump ones round here at all.

differentnameforthis · 21/07/2014 05:13

As an aside, op pulling forward into a parking spot would have made no difference.

The pump cannot be reset to start delivering more fuel until the already delivered fuel has been paid for. All he could have achieved was a few seconds once op had paid.

Youarejustwordsonascreenpeople · 21/07/2014 06:19

Ah! I love getting petrol I the country I live in. You queue up in a lane. You get to the pumps. The man will fill you up/ put in the amount of petrol requested. You give him cash and he puts it in the pouch round his waist and gives you change if needed, you give him a card and he goes to the machine by the pump and inserts your card and then brings you the machine to input your details. You want something from the shop, you pull forward after paying and go to the shop. You can not pump the petrol yourself, they have to do it and you can be waiting in the queue for 5 or 10 minutes or more. Work vans and lorries have a different set of pumps to domestic as well in general.

Spanglecrab · 21/07/2014 06:39

I had someone beep at me while waiting to be given my food at the McDonalds drive through window yesterday. Maybe the same bloke?

Spanglecrab · 21/07/2014 06:41

I had someone beep at me while waiting to be given my food at the McDonalds drive through window yesterday. Maybe the same bloke?

bumbleymummy · 21/07/2014 12:09

different name, I've already said that some petrol station pumps can actually keep a 'history' for a few cars so that people can go and shop and pay later, allowing other people to fill up in the mean time.

windchime · 21/07/2014 13:30

It just might be that his wife was in labour and he was rushing to the hospital to hold her hand but on the way found he had no petrol. Do try to see situations from others' POV and stop the twattish behaviour.

windchime · 21/07/2014 13:32

90% of knobs seem to drive BMWs

No they don't. They drive Audis.

BomChickaMeowMeow · 21/07/2014 13:38

Pay at pump is fine, but it's clearly obviously fine to be able to pay in the shop as well if you need other stuff as well as fuel!

People are so impatient, YANBU, OP.

BomChickaMeowMeow · 21/07/2014 13:42

Someone (a woman) once shouted and waved her arms at me in her car (angrily but inaudibly) and beeped the horn as I was heavily pregnant filling up with petrol.

I looked round, puzzled, to see what possible misdemeanor I may have committed, in her eyes, but shrugged and went in to pay. While I was coming out of the shop she came up to me and apologised. She had thought there were two pumps in a row and that I had stopped at the nearest instead of pulling to the front, but there was only one .

BomChickaMeowMeow · 21/07/2014 13:45

I really doubt he sat back and thought, 'if only I hadn't revved and hooted I would have been filling up by now'. More likely it just reinforced his prejudices and made him more likely to behave the same way in future.

Tough shit. Only the aggressive arsehole is responsible for the aggressive arsehole's behaviour, not the OP. Nothing she could have done would change his future behaviour.

Bowlersarm · 21/07/2014 13:48

Then he wasn't just a knob, windchime he was a very stupid knob. Not to a) keep a fullish tank of petrol if his wife was likely to go into labour or b) not to call out to the OP 'excuse me, do you mind hurrying up a bit. My wife's just gone into labour!'

In fact if he was being anything other than a total arse and there was a reason he was in a hurry, he should have called out nicely for any reason. No need for all the revving and intimidating at all. That'll just put any reasonable persons back up.

Or of course, he could have just waited patiently for the approx 30 seconds it would have taken the OP to put her seat belt on, start the car, and drive off.

Hissy · 21/07/2014 19:55

I was going to point that out windchime, but was worried about the backlash from MC-Audi-Driver

Hissy · 21/07/2014 20:09

Being in a rush of your own making never entitled anyone to treat anyone else with anything less than the utmost respect they expect for themselves.

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