just stretch the hose over your sodding car

[PiperPublickOccurrences]

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.

I would not be comfortable doing this!

I really hate pulling out the hoses so I'll wait until a pump on the correct side is available unless I'm in a rush. Really don't care what anyone else thinks 

I struggle to stretch it too. Any time I've had to do it in a rush I have barely been able to extend it and ended up with cuts and grazes trying to make it stretch far enough.

@PiperPublickOccurrences

You must be strong!

How an earth can so many people be too short but still reach the pedals in the car? Absolutely peeing myself at people being too short.

Perchance is it the pumps that say fits both sides you mean?

Or just the normal ones

I think the people who won’t stretch hoses are the same people who drive at 40 no matter what the speed limit is, and who middle lane hog. They probably don’t indicate left when exiting a roundabout either.

I think the people who won’t stretch hoses are the same people who drive at 40 no matter what the speed limit is, and who middle lane hog. They probably don’t indicate left when exiting a roundabout either.

Most certainly not! I wonder how many of the “stretchers” go inside to pay when pay at pump is available?

I use the time I save from hose-stretching to use the coffee machine and peruse the items inside the petrol station, flick through some magazines, pop to the loo if there is one, etc.

Can’t believe some of the posts on this thread. I’ve never seen a pump that doesn’t stretch, plus you just park a bit further forward. Where are these pumps that apparently don’t stretch?! Madness people who don’t fill up at the other side if that’s the only pump available.

Barebum absolutely not.
I will always use the correct side, I can’t stretch it over due to an issue with my shoulder. However people not using pay at pump when they are paying by card and not buying anything from inside the shop really annoys me.

Thing is, OP isn’t ordering you all to stretch ot round/over. She was giving a useful piece of advice. Everybody is responding as If OP is going to policing it! Keep waiting for the pumps on the same side as your petrol cap if you want. Or don’t and branch out and try something new, who knows what could happen!

Ohhh don't get me started on shop browsers when it's busy. It is an ugly sight.

Park a little further forward and the hose will go round the back of your car. You don't have to be tall and if it's on the window there's no chance of the smooth rubber hose "scratching the paintwork".

I used to manage a petrol station and people all waiting for "the right side" used to cause me unnecessary queues and stress every day.

Also, I can't use pay-at-pump - my bank card doesn't let me.

Noooo don't tell them. I love these people. I am in and out while they sit there...

Its like the people who don't realise you can park on the far side of a carpark, walk over get the shopping done and be gone in half the time if you don't cruise around the close spots.

Leave them to it.

All these people ending up tangled in hoses, getting cuts and grazes, scratching their cars and dripping petrol everywhere.. really! You people sound like you shouldn't be in charge of driving a car if you cannot manage a rubber hose safety without injuring yourself or damaging your own car!

All these people who stretch the hose over... one day you're going to find yourself with a hose that's too short even to go round the back of the car and round the flap on he fuel tank. Hopefully it'll be a nice busy petrol station and a middle aged man with a flashy watch and an audi will be beeping his horn behind you as you struggle. Then you'll know. It's all very well to take the risk yourself, but to be contemptuous of those with psychological scars from a Hose Stretch Gone Bad is unforgivable.

Where are these pumps that apparently don’t stretch?!

There is an old fashioned petrol station near me which doesn't stretch, but I think in most cases people don't realise the hoses extend.

Some of those spring mounted arm types can be heavy, so fair enough that people with mobility difficulty may struggle; but the people scared of drips need to send an adult to fill up for them.

I have never seen anyone do this. Where I live everyone just waits for a pump on the correct side. I doubt the pump thing would stretch around your average car tbh (although the average car in us area seems to be a Range Rover)

All the non-stretchers are free to carry on wasting their time.

But don't block me from getting to free pumps as you're doing so.

I have arthritis. I'm not hurting myself to suit anyone else so do your passive aggressive little dances, I give zero fucks.

I want to counter this that at some petrol stations the people who fill up on the opposite side are the ones causing a hold up - at my local petrol station the "exit lanes" between the pumps are fairly narrow. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to wait for someone to finish filling their car before I can vacate my pump and let someone else have it because they are standing in the exit lane and there isn't space to drive past without hitting them. A lot depends on the design of the petrol station, the pumps and how closely people park to the pumps.

Where are these pumps that apparently don’t stretch?!

Gawdawful petrol station of no particular company brand on the A1, February 2018. I honestly thought the tired looking hose might pull the whole rickety dispenser over, even. I know there are other occasions, but that one was most recent. It was the sort of petrol station where no local would everstop but I was running low on fuel and didn't feel brave to wait any longer.

I'm sure there's quite a few like that on the A17, too.

This thread has been quite eye opening. I’m rarely filling my tank when it’s busy but I have never seen people stretch the hose over and I’ve never been having to wait more than one person so that’s a bonus

I queue and also don’t care what you think.

I have no intention of dripping petrol, scratching paintwork with hose , struggling to read pump because you don’t leave early enough to queue .

We are BRITISH so we queue 😃

Where I live, the petrol station is so busy that all the pumps on both sides are usually in use anyway, and people are queuing. It is a large forecourt. So I queue to use the pump on the side that I want, and everyone else is free to do likewise.