...but I’m happy to be told otherwise.
Drove into a small supermarket petrol station today. Six pumps in a row. You then drive forward to the pay station once you’ve filled up. On the far left hand side there is a pump that has pay at the pump enabled but it was out of order today.
It wasn’t massively busy but the working pumps were all occupied and two or three of them had cars sitting behind them waiting their turn. I drove behind the car on the far right to wait my turn, in the same manner.
As the girl in front of me was finishing up, I noticed that one of the cars who was waiting behind a car at another pump had driven past the pay at the pump pump, across the forecourt and was now sitting in front of the girl in front of me. She left, manoeuvring around him to get to the pay station.
I didn’t know what he was doing so I went to drive forward (deliberately slowly because I was wary). His reverse lights came on and he reversed back (very quickly) to reach the pump before I did. He got out of the car and stared me down.
I just drove to the pump on my left, which had since become free. So basically he saved himself about 30 seconds if that.
He eyeballed me the full time I was filling up my car. I had my two small children in the back and felt intimidated. I just avoided eye contact. But I feel quite put out about it tonight.
He wouldn’t have done that if I was a big bloke, would he?
I hope I’ve explained that well enough. I just wanted to vent.