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Is this the trampiest thing you've ever heard?!?

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RachaelCatWhisperer · 21/04/2017 22:40

Brace yourself...

So I'm filling up the car with petrol today, 5 months pregnant, and a woman comes up to me and asks for a lighter and a fag... I replied "you don't want a lighter at a petrol station love" and she asked why!

Or has something even more bonkers happened to you today??

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zzzzz · 21/04/2017 23:10

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MiltopMighty · 21/04/2017 23:16

It is lovely, NeedsAsockamnesty ⭐️

MagnumAddict · 21/04/2017 23:18

You're not at all concerned she assumed you looked like you would be 'the type' to smoke during pregnancy?

Maybe a wardrobe overhaul is needed? Perhaps a badge that says 'approach me only if you are educated and middle class'

Still, at least you'll have a story to tell at NCT Grin

AllPizzasGreatAndSmall · 21/04/2017 23:18

5 months doesn't equate to obviously pregnant in my mind.

kel1493 · 21/04/2017 23:20

Asking for that in a petrol station is daft for sure

VladmirsPoutine · 21/04/2017 23:23

Typical MN response Grin.
Yanbu - asking for a lighter and a fag is trampy and doing so in a petrol station is even worse and the fact that you're pregnant too beggars belief.

JaniceBattersby · 21/04/2017 23:23

Little irrelevant fact for you all. When they used to say that you couldn't use mobiles on the forecourt, it wasn't because of the very, very remote possibility of one causing a fire, it was because they used to interfere with the pumps and could reset the dials if used while filling up.

JaniceBattersby · 21/04/2017 23:24

Sorry, X-posted with the OP's own fact there. My OH is a firefighter and he has just insisted that his fact is the CORRECT fact Grin

elephantoverthehill · 21/04/2017 23:27

I think the 'trampy' person asked for a lighter and a fag. There was no suggestion that she was going to give either back or indeed light the fag in the petrol station. Grin

e1y1 · 21/04/2017 23:28

Where I come from, trampy means "common"/without class.

I agree with you OP - trampy all round.

GiraffesAndButterflies · 21/04/2017 23:29

More synonyms for trampy/scutty are needed please, OP. Enquiringly minds want to derail your thread know what they mean.

Tw1nsetAndPearls · 21/04/2017 23:30

I totally misunderstood and thought the woman asking for the lighter was 5 months pregnant.

I have drunk a bottle of wine but it is fine I am not in a petrol station and I am not 5 months pregnant. I may or may not be "trampy" - I think my husband is hoping that I might be.

reuset · 21/04/2017 23:33

You're not at all concerned she assumed you looked like you would be 'the type' to smoke during pregnancy?

Grin

Trampy though! I was expecting a different thread I think.

zzzzz · 21/04/2017 23:34

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usernumbernine · 21/04/2017 23:35

Where I come from trampy means sexually promiscuous dressed in short skirt heavy make up and looking like a prostitute.

I'm not seeing the connection with that and asking for a fag and lighter?

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Benedikte2 · 21/04/2017 23:38

I have friends from SE Asia who showed me a video of their relative's new petrol station. To celebrate they had firecrackers strung up all around the pumps which they then proceeded to light. Firecrackers are used to celebrate everything and nobody thought it strange/dangerous to have fireworks around the petrol pumps so I said nothing.

DioneTheDiabolist · 21/04/2017 23:38

I wasn't going to spark it up on the forecourt OP.Hmm

thenightsky · 21/04/2017 23:38

I recall being in Egypt in a small coach on the way to Suez. We stopped to fuel up the coach. I looked out of the window and right below me were two blokes. The one holding the filler nozzle was using his other hand to light the second blokes fag... right over the nozzle Shock

I was in a cold sweat.

SoloDance · 21/04/2017 23:39

Maybe she thought you were just fat?

elephantoverthehill · 21/04/2017 23:41

To lighten things up a tadge, a long time ago I was in a transport cafe with a friend when we noticed a car on fire in the car park. Someone else had noticed it and the Fire Service had been called. We were still drinking our tea when the firefighters arrived. They stood around the car, a couple of them smoking, discussing what to do. They put the fire out and went on their way.

LuluJakey1 · 21/04/2017 23:45

Trampiest is a very odd choice of word.
And why did you call her 'love'?

MiltopMighty · 21/04/2017 23:48

I once went to a country that was under trade sanctions so petrol was sold on the black market. We drove out to the countryside to buy petrol and we bounced up to this man sitting on top of a huge whiteish plastic container full of petrol and he was holding a garden hose to siphon it out. He was sitting on top of the container smoking a fag.

I asked to be let out of the car before the transaction needless to say.

MiltopMighty · 21/04/2017 23:49

We bounced because it was a very old car with totally shot suspension and it was a dirt road. We didn't bounce up like Tigger.

VladmirsPoutine · 21/04/2017 23:50

Grin - where were you Mil?

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