We are closed, we are closed, we are closed!

[wolfie]

Count me in. Many times I've had 800-900 litre fillups when I got back to the company yard (1000 litres usable fuel), but I keep an eye on the multifunction display and know that I've got enough remaining.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I don't see anything sucky about waiting til the tank is low before filling up, especially since the price of fuel has risen recently. What I find sucky is a) waiting til a blizzard happens before deciding to go fill up, b) being a bitch when told that a petrol station is closed and c) refusing to take no for an answer.

[notalwaysright]

And it's not like you were closing super early, it was just half an hour. I mean, a looooong time ago the fabric store got permission to close a little early, I think it was an hour. But it still took a little while to close the registers, so we were walking out the door maybe at 8:30 PM, when we normally close at 9:00. A little old lady pulls up and says "oh, are you closing?" Um, look around, it's a blizzard in a place that normally gets a few inches per year. Why not call ahead? Especially this SC, who just wasted a bunch of gas.

Slightly related, but I can't remember the last time I got gas when there was an employee on site. I get gas on my way to work, and the convenience store isn't open at 6 AM. So I am pretty used to being able to get gas whenever. But the UK is clearly different, and the people there should know better. But they don't, or this site wouldn't exist.

[Shyla]

If that woman had been waiting after I closed up, I think I would have called the cops. That's scary. What was her plan?

[Lace Neil Singer]

If that woman had been waiting after I closed up, I think I would have called the cops. That's scary. What was her plan?

I have no idea, due to possessing sanity and common sense. In any case, she was gone before the petrol station opened up the next day.

[greek_jester]

What I find sucky is a) waiting til a blizzard happens before deciding to go fill up, b) being a bitch when told that a petrol station is closed and c) refusing to take no for an answer.

While I can somewhat blushing admit I waited to fill my car until the day we got evacuated due to potential flooding, it was only because I didn't have the money available to do it until that day, so I filled up on the way home to go pack.

I did, however, avoid cursing at the queues of panicky people filling their car up as if it was the apocalypse, I paid at the pump to keep the queue time down, and if the place had been shut I would have shrugged and moved on to one of the 4 other petrol stations within a 2 mile radius (commuting on one of the major commuting routes in the area has its advantages!)