What do you do when you get petrol?

[kayzisbroody]

Not an AIBU, I know.

I was at the petrol station yesterday and someone filled up her car and went to pay leaving a baby who looked about 2 months old asleep in the car alone.
An old woman(why is it always old women) complained to the manager.
His response was "each to ones own".

I dont drive but I am having lessons and have just bought a car and I'm now wondering what I would do.

What do you do? or what would you do?

Leave mine in the car.

I had a bit of a lecture from a friends dh about this years ago. He wouldn't do it. It was dangerous. Etc.

But I have three dc and he has one.

Also babies are one thing if you can carry them but toddlers and young children running about the forecourt are a danger.

Iirc though when this has been discussed on mn before the consensus was that the doors should be un-locked. Might be wrong..

slight change of petrol pump dilemma, but when we lived in Belfast during the troubles, my mother used to leave me in the car (me at 4 years old) while she popped into the shops, so that the army wouldn't blow up the car while it was parked . She was never particularly maternal, I must say!!!

Oh my goodness LewisFan.
I was just about to post something along the lines of 'I worry about fire but really, what are the chances fo the car spontaneously combusting?' when I got to your post..
There's my answer then.

Leave mine in the car unlocked, or on a rare absent minded day locked, in which case the alarm goes off. That is the main reason for unlocked but also ease of access in an emergency. I am bad though because I also pop into local shops where I can't see them and leave them in the car..

I make a point of either filling up car when I have no children with me or getting DH to take car half mile down the road and fill it up on the weekend.
Never seen anyone "pay at pump" in all my years of living in this country - have only seen signs with picture of wheelchair saying you can call for assistance which I assume means only for people who really cant do it themselves.

So one car setting fire where the children were rescued safely. And how many children hit by cars in petrol stations?

maisykins the pay at the pumps are usually at supermarket petrol stations where they have certain pumps that have card readers where you can enter your pin number and pay that way. It doens't mean someone comes out and assists you.

Oh is that what "pay at pump" is? Guess I am showing my age. I suppose we do have those (havent really noticed but will look out for them and see).

You are thinking of the old-fashioned thing where you actually get your car filled up for you? I remember once being at an Asda petrol station in the late 70s in my Grandparent's car, they were following Mum and Dad, and Dad went got his petrol and drove forward to the payment window. Then my Grandad realised that he would have to put his own petrol in and he didn't know how and had to send my Grandma running after my Dad!

I go out of my way to go to the tesco's in the town, and pay at the pump.

I do not like leaving my dc in the car, and it is not possible to safely get 5 dc across the forecourt with me (I only have 2 hands!)

I either pay at pump or lock them in, always have done, imo its safer than getting both kids out and dragging them to pay, then of course you have to deal with the i wants whilke your in there lol, but on another note years ago when i was preggeres with dd1 i had nipped to matalan one night after work and someone had left there child asleep in the car whilst they had gone in, now that is very wrong

I never left dd in the car and I now don't leave my mindees in the car. (I haven't got a permission slip for that!) Now adays, since dd is 12, she goes to pay for me and I wait in the car!

Does nobody else's alarm go off then?

Eulalia, a child has never been snatched from a petrol station, but a car with a baby sleeping at the back has been stolen, here in London! The car thieves did apparently not see the wee baby sleeping at the back...

I leave mine in the car, but DS did set the alarm off once...

I go to 24 hr sainsbos before bed every Thursday, because I am a creature of habit and it's the only time I get myself all week

I try and go to the pay at pump petrol station, failing that I leave DD in the locked car, just so long as I can see her at all times.

If I have the kids with me though, I lock em in (with the key, nbot the zapper, otherwise the little buggers keep setting the alarm off)

I leave both my DC in the locked car.

1. If someone attempted to steal my car during the time i am paying, i would get to the car faster than they would open the unlocked car and then hot wire my car.

1. Regarding the risk of the petrol station blowing up, if that WAS to happen, with all the thousands of gallons of petrol thats there, we would ALL die not just those on the forecourt!

1. Taking an active toddler and a little baby across the forecourt, to me, is far more risky than leaving them strapped in their car seats inside a locked car with my beady eyes on them at least every other second.

I pay at pump when I can or I leave(lock) them in the car (keeping my eye on the car the whole time I'm paying.

DS1 likes to come with me to buy carpark tickets(mentioned by someone else) so I once(whisper it) bribed him with a fruit shoot to stay in car while I went to pay!!

I take mine in but only cos I live minutes away from where that car jacking took place at a petrol station and a child was taken at gunpoint. Or something, it was a while back now...

I always leave ds in car ( but he is ten !) but don't lock it in case of fire