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JayTree · 08/09/2002 23:09

Ok - I would appreciate a few thoughts on this one please.Today I was out in the car with my dd for a long journey. She yelled and screamed for ages before finally settling down for a nap. It was at this point that I realised I was almost out of petrol, miles away from home and any "pay at the pump" stations. So I pulled into one I had never used before and filled up. I then had to decide whether or not to lock the doors and leave my dd sleeping in the warm car (cold and rainy out) or wake her up and take her in with me and deal with the inevitable yelling all over again. I am amazed that I hadn?t had to think about this before now but somehow always avoided the problem one way or another. I have read so many articles about cars stolen at the pump with babies in them etc. and found it a bit of a tricky one. When I got home I talked it through with dh and was surprised to find that we disagreed strongly about the appropriate course of action. What do you do?

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WideWebWitch · 01/10/2002 00:04

But I'm still confused, call me stupid (go on then!) but I wouldn't use mine in a petrol station, of course, but if it's in my bag in the front and the fumes are going into the car while I'm filling up and then it rings, then what? Is that safe or what? And if it isn't, how come you don't see hordes of people pulling off before petrol stations to turn their phones off? Or do they do it once parked?

Tinker · 01/10/2002 00:04

I meant the incidents themselves really, rather than the risk.

Croppy · 01/10/2002 09:39

Our local petrol station has a number of photo's up showing burnt out forecourts as a result of people using mobile phones.

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