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just stretch the hose over your sodding car

346 replies

PiperPublickOccurrences · 16/11/2018 14:55

I don't fill the car with fuel that often as it's mainly just used for around time.

Every time I go to the petrol station the access is blocked by people queuing for a pump on the "correct" side of their car.

If I can stretch the hose over my mum-bus people carrier, you can stretch it over your ford fiesta.

Petrol station etiquette should definitely be on the driving test.

OP posts:
Nanaletti · 16/11/2018 16:58

I was told off for doing this at my local petrol station!!

nikkylou · 16/11/2018 16:59

No I don't want to hose touching my car, I think it'll scratch it. Rubber or not, they always look rough and I'm not chancing it.
Plus they're heavy and a faff to pull round.
I get it only takes a few extra seconds and a little more effort but you know I'd rather queue patiently in my warm car and not have to go through some kind tug of war with a fuel hose before filling up.
If it bothers you, please feel free to drive past me to the pump I've rejected.
What annoys me more are those that hang at the entrance - just commit. And those that block up the lane and queue when you can slip through the middle to the front pump.

Biancadelriosback · 16/11/2018 17:03

I don't want to.

RatherBeRiding · 16/11/2018 17:04

I'm very small and drive a whacking great 4x4. I've never not come across a hose that will reach round the back if I park close enough to the pump - even "ordinary" hoses, not necessarily the swing across ones.

I also manage to not scratch my paintwork or drip diesel on my car.

I guess some people are just more resourceful/better at just-getting-on-with-it than others.

CiderBrains · 16/11/2018 17:04

I've never scratched my car nor have I ever dripped petrol on it. What on earth are people doing at the pumps if they are damaging their cars just by stretching the hose around the back of it.. Confused

Catfacecats · 16/11/2018 17:07

I’m a small person and I constantly manage to pull the hose to the other side of my massive Volvo XC90. Never chipped the paint with the rubber hose either Grin

MyBrexitIsIll · 16/11/2018 17:13

The thing is you don’t need to go over your car, just around it.
There is no effort involved, just parking your car more or less at the right place. A little bit closer to the pump you Normally do and slightly more forward.

I agree with you OP

As for the ‘you dint what sort of problems people have’ brigade. Seriously, the number of people who would have issues isn’t 50% or more. (Which is what I see. Nearly no one is happy to fill from both sis of the car). Which means plenty of people who could do that don’t.

MyBrexitIsIll · 16/11/2018 17:14

I have to laugh at the idea of a rubber hose scratchingnthe paint.
Rubber is what we use to PROTECT the pain from metallic object for example!

EurusHolmes · 16/11/2018 17:16

Every single time I've tried it, it's been too short.

So I don't bother trying now - it's embarrassing when it doesn't work Blush

GhostsInSnow · 16/11/2018 17:20

MyBrexitIsIll
Think about it for a moment. Rubber is a soft compound. When that compound is dragged on the floor sharp objects can pierce it easily. They then stick to the hose and scratch the car.

It's really not difficult.

Celebelly · 16/11/2018 17:23

I just pull slightly more forward than I would usually and pull the hose round the back. Never had a hose that wasn't long enough to do that and no touching of my car required.

Celebelly · 16/11/2018 17:24

Although I'm glad more people don't do this sometimes as I like to feel smug when I bypass the queue of people waiting for a specific side and just get up, fill up and drive off while they're still waiting Grin

VisitorsEntrance · 16/11/2018 17:26

After someone complained like this on MN I tried it at my local petrol station only to find that the ones there don’t stretch far enough.
So I wait.

Can we discuss the people who seem to do their entire weekly shop before paying and then decided to rearrange all the parking tickets in their cars.

SoupDragon · 16/11/2018 17:26

I just pull slightly more forward than I would usually and pull the hose round the back

If you do that from the furthest hose on the furthest pumps at my local petrol station you block the exit if you have a largish car. That would make you less smug.

Getoffthetableplease · 16/11/2018 17:27

So many people taking it around the back Grin - explains why there's always people parked so far forward no one can drive out to the exit without waiting/a total squeeze/nearly taking out the garage flowers. They're the buggers blocking up our local fuel station. Along with the people who go to pay at pump and then decide to go in the shop anyway don't even start me on those nobs.

I can stretch the hose, but I generally choose not to, soz.

Oopsusernamealreadytaken · 16/11/2018 17:27

I am not strong enough pull them across and over. Judge away 🙄

keepingbees · 16/11/2018 17:28

The Sainsbury's garage near me now say they are longer hoses to reach round which I think it great and I would use.
They don't always reach though, and if I'm not sure I'm not going to risk it especially if I've got 5 cars queued behind me and nowhere to go if it doesn't!

Wolfiefan · 16/11/2018 17:28

I won’t if I have the dog in the car. It would scare the bejeezus out of her. I also have mobility and pain issues that make it a challenge for me to do this. So I don’t.

BollocksToBrexit · 16/11/2018 17:28

I had never heard of locking the fuel pump nozzle but a quick google suggests the pins are removed in the UK so we can't!

Shock Why?

Celebelly · 16/11/2018 17:29

If you do that from the furthest hose on the furthest pumps at my local petrol station you block the exit if you have a largish car. That would make you less smug.

Maybe I would use my brain and not do it in this extremely specific scenario of the furthest hose at the furthest pump on the occasion I'm in a largeish car at that specific petrol station? Hmm

GhostsInSnow · 16/11/2018 17:29

I think ultimately the answer is 'it depends'

  1. Are the pumps new enough to have longer hoses
  2. Is there room to pull forward without blocking
  3. Does that particular garage allow it as some don't

And most importantly

  1. Do you feel comfortable doing it?

It's a couple of minutes wait, hardly the end of the world.

sizzledrizz · 16/11/2018 17:30

The hose doesn't always stretch over.

Celebelly · 16/11/2018 17:32

Oddly, this is the first time I've ever seen/heard of people pulling the hose actually over the car. Round here, everyone just pulls the hose round the back - it's much easier. I'm 5ft 4 and a weakling (and currently pregnant) and can manage pulling it round the back fine, but I think I would struggle with pulling it actually over the top of the car.

MustBeThin · 16/11/2018 17:33

I'd not been driving long when I went to the petrol station to fill up, I ended up waiting behind a man that was trying to get the hose round his car to fill up. He was really tugging on it as if it was going to magically extend, it didn't and he ended up having to change pumps. I thought he looked like a nob so I've never tried it. Grin I don't really fill up at peak times so I'm hardly ever waiting and I always pay at the pump.

What does annoy me, the people that fill up at the pumps you pay at and then go inside and buy a bottle of pop or a sandwhich.......why the bloody hell don't they just fill up at the normal pump any buy their stuff when they go inside to pay. Angry I think that's more annoying than people waiting at the right pump.

Kahlua4me · 16/11/2018 17:39

I struggle to pull the hose over due to knee injury from years ago. It hurts if I do, as I have tride many times.

Now I am happy to wait 😊

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