to be cringing at myself!!

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I was inside the parked car at the petrol station while my friend filled up and sent a text on my phone... massive loud voice over tannoy to get off the phone... busy petrol station erghhh how embarrassing!! I know it was U to be on the phone I was i the wrong etc but proper felt like I was back at school being told off!

I know it has the sign not to, just didn’t even think!!

Has anyone else had anything embarrassing happen today please make me feel better!

@SAMlady I’m going to send that link to Sainsbury’s!!

I remember watching some science tv show a year or so ago. They tried for hours to ignite petrol fumes with their phones. They couldn't do it.

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Nope, just a LO with an aversion to longer journeys if no one is on he back with him!

Now imagine going back to 10 x 10 year olds who are trying to be polite and not laughing (until I turned my back.)

Mummy it’s horrible isn’t it! Checking a text! Whaaatt. For all they knew you were in the process of turning your phone off. They would see everyone on their phones if everyone actually had to turn off their phone on the forecourt

While I do think that you should follow the posted rules wherever you are the petrol station one is interesting.

I live in the US. I use the official Exxon (Esso in the U.K.) mobile app for paying for my fuel at the pump.

The app actually gives instructions for you to follow (including select gas and then remove pump).

Given how litigious the US and how safety conscious Oil companies are I’d be surprised if there was any risk from using the app...

@MyBrilliantDisguise did they think you were going to stay there?? Why did they need to ask you to move back 😂

I was just about to say what Sam has said, fine inside a car, both Shell and BP have mobile phone payment apps!

Really @DrWhy and SAM I can feel an email coming on. Don’t embarrass a hormonal pregnant lady... that’s more dangerous than using a mobile phone inside a parked car on a forecourt!

Many moons ago we did the circle line pub crawl. Decided to have a fag at south ken. We were in the open air, thought I was on a train platform not tube.

The voice over the intercom ‘could the lady and gentleman smoking at the end of the platform please extinguish their cigarettes’ was MORTIFYING.

This was about 18 years ago so you could smoke on train platforms at the time.

Perhaps they were concerned that Brilliant had seen the Do not Walk sign and was going to attempt to manoeuvre herself out by doing The Worm?

I was standing in the street waiting for my friends bus to arrive so I could walk with her to my house. It was after 10pm and dark and the street was fairly deserted, not in a great area but I felt perfectly safe. Until a voice came over a tannoy asking if I was ok, I had no idea there was a CCTV camera on the lamppost and completely no idea the CCTV people could talk to you through them so I'm stood in the street looking around me like a complete numpty then the voice started saying 'im up here, in the lamppost' by this time I'm trying to ignore it and act nonchalant but then the voice started saying 'dont pretend you can't hear me I'm checking you are ok you shouldn't stand out here by yourself' then I'm left wondering how to mime I'm waiting for my friends bus! Then the bus pulls up my friend gets off an we start to walk away. The voice says 'bye bye lady in the wooly hat and friend off the bus'. Weirdest tannoy interaction I've ever had.

@ILostItInTheEarlyNineties shouting I’m not waking am I!! 🤣

Just remembered that I got shouted at another time because one of my DDs opened a back door whilst I was filling up with petrol. "Marmite with the blue car close the door! "
What is that rule all about??
I'm obviously very very bad in petrol stations!!

walking...

Marmite what kind of petrol station doesn’t let you open your door!!!

@Lindy2 was it Brainiac?! I watched something similar!

Waaay back in the early '90's, DH had a "mobile phone". It was pretty much a phone handset attached to a car battery, weighed about 8lb or more, and I'd have been leery about having anything to do with it at a petrol station... but modern phones? Meh.

I had the same thing OP. I was on foot in the middle of a phone conversation, and taking a shortcut through the petrol station (it's on a corner). I just didn't think, until a booming voice made me jump. Quite right too.

There is absolutely no risk from using mobile phones in a petrol station. I can see its not a good idea to be yakking on your phone whilst you are pumping highly flammable gas into your car, when you should be paying attention, but texting from the car? That’s a jobsworth.

here you go
brainiacshow.wikia.com/wiki/Mobile_Phone_at_a_Petrol_Station

When j lived in America everyone used their phones at petrol stations, walking in to pay, all of it. I don't remember seeing any signs, maybe I'm not remembering right as this was a long long time ago now. Don't remember hearing of anyone having any issues though.

I live in Canada. We are allowed to use our mobile phones at the pump.