Impatient people at the petrol station

[asblindasabat]

went To the petrol station this morning to fill up my car on my way to work.

I paid at the pump, put the fuel in my car and got back into my car again to drive off.

There was a woman in her car using the pumps behind me and she had finished filling her car and so was waiting for me to leave the forecourt to facilitate her exit as there was no room for her to get through until left as there were pumps on the other side which were being used.

I had got into my car, used some hand sanitiser and then switched on my engine to get ready to go.

As soon as I got into the car, she had driven her car from her pump right up to the tail end of my car as if to say hurry up in a really passive aggressive way - for context, I drove off within a minute of getting back into my car.

AIBU to think these people should just chill out and have some patience? It’s not like I was sitting there dithering for 5 minutes!

I’d be bored waiting 60 seconds for someone to drive off but I am pretty impatient. Just hurry up 😅

I hate people who dick about in their car after filling up - just turn the key and drive off fgs!

slightly infuriating sitting behind someone who takes ages to leave the pump

60 seconds doesn’t sound long but she was probably thinking “wtaf are you doing woman”. Hand sanitiser isn’t necessary surely,

But she could have been more chill tbh

I don't know what it is that makes waiting for the person in front to move at a petrol station so irritating but I feel it! Just get back in the car and get going, you don't need to hang about faffing on.

It'd have taken you seconds to pull forward out of her way. I was always taught it was good manners to do that, rather than faff about with hand sanitiser or whatever.

A minute is actually a long time for you to take after getting in your car? Why would it take you that long to stick the key in the car and drive? Hand sanitiser aside it shouldnt take that long

Why the hand sanitizer? Don’t they provide gloves there? Or are your car door handles dirty?

60 seconds sounds like ages between getting in and pulling off! Tbh her moving forward is hardly uber impatient, she's just getting ready to leave? Beeping would have been impatient!

I wasn’t really faffing about though. I was only using hand sanitiser for all of 2 secs and then off I went.

there would have been nowhere else to pull into to use my hand sanitiser and tbh, I don’t see the point in doing that anyway as it only took a couple of seconds!

A few months ago I went to a petrol station without Pay at Pump. The queue was excruciating slow, not helped by seemingly everyone getting a Subway inside as well...

Generally yes, people should be patient. But people shouldn't faff either!

She was probably just being ready tbh

I always wonder what takes people so long to pull off, but perhaps they are all using hand sanitizer!

I always feel like I’m really quick but others seem to take ages!

I think people are failing to see the point of hand sanitiser at all, irrespective of how long it takes to apply.

I had a guy once annoyed I hasn't pulled forward to use the front pump, gesturing at me and yelling
Told him there was no fuel in it. He launched into an explanation about why you should always use the front pump etc etc and ignored me trying to tell him
Filled up, went to drive off. He pulled forward past the back pump to the front one and saw the out of order sign (I did try to tell him...)
And then couldn't reverse back as there was a car behind him
I did laugh a little...

So was it two seconds or a minute?

I think you know you were faffing and now you're trying to backtrack.

I wasn’t ‘faffing’ and no I’m not backtracking.

all I’m saying is it took a matter of seconds whether it was 2 or 60

From what you've said it doesn't sound like she beeped/gestured to you? Or was rude in any other way? She was probably just preparing to leave as soon as you did, or politely trying to let you know she was waiting by moving her car forward. That's not necessarily "impatient" but she might have just been in a rush.

You also said you were there for no less than 60 seconds, but also that you took 2 seconds doing the hand sanitizer than left. I would imagine it was closer to the former than the latter but the inconsistency makes me think you were probably faffing a bit and she just wanted to remind you that there were others behind you waiting.

60 seconds sounds like nothing, but it actually feels like forever when you're waiting and ready to pull away. I too would be sitting there thinking 'what the hell is she doing?'

I would agree with the ‘faffing’ point if I had got into the car and started going through my hand back to find my lipstick!

I was behind an old guy (definitely over 70) at the petrol pump one day & it took him a solid 5mins to get from walking out the kiosk door to actually driving off - never mind being annoyed that he took so long, surely if he's that slow getting into his car & being ready to move off his reflexes can't be quick enough to be safe on the roads.

But I must admit I'm guilty of resetting my mileage counter & plugging my phone back in before driving off after filling up.

Handbag*

OP: AIBU?

Posters: Mmm, kinda.

OP: NO I AM NOT HOW DARE YOU?

I find these threads a bit tedious. Why ask? Clearly she was ready to go. As others say, she didn't honk at you or anything, so what do you want?

YANBU if you did jump in the car and do a quick squitz of hand sanitiser before pulling off, but there are some people who faff for bloody ages before leaving the forecourt and it drives me up the wall.

No I totally agree - that happened to me also with an elderly person not that long ago and it infuriated me.

But I didn’t even take a minute