When a customer puts the "ass" into "assistance"

[Lace Neil Singer]

I have a little idea of what it must be like; I was on crutches for two weeks when I hurt my foot, and I was amazed at just how rude and stupid people can be. I had people barging past me, shoving into me and even a couple of kids who came over and tried to pull my crutches away. I can't imagine what it must be like for someone who needs a stick to walk all the time.

I wonder if your station could implement such a pricing schedule?

We can't. There is no way that management would allow such a thing. Also, I know that in other countries there's different systems, but over here in my part of England, all the petrol stations have selfservice pumps. (bolded in case anyone wants to disagree; England is a big place, and I am talking about my tiny corner of it, not the entire country.)

[Jester]

People 'feel' that they're disabled all the time when I write them tickets for parking in the handicap spaces!

From the movie Twins, when a cop is ticketing Danny DeVito's character:

"You're parked in a handicapped zone."
"Do I look normal to you?"

[RayvenQ]

Clinical depression can manifest as laziness - or more precisely, as a combination of apathy, lethargy, ennui and a total lack of motivation. But again, there's a difference between chronic, clinically significant depression, and simple laziness.

That's how it's manifested in me, sadly nobody ever can tell the difference. As my mum says to me "Some people are lazy, you just have very little will to live or go on."

I have a bad back too, neither of which actually prevents me packing my own bags or pumping my own gas (when I used to have my bike on the road).

I hate people who abuse the services with avengeance though and even if i did need assistance, i certainly wouldn't bring the ass to it by being rude.

[MergedLoki]

Can you not just refuse to assist them with something along the lines of

"sorry sir/ma'mn i'm only required to assist disabled/handicapped customers as a courtesy *our company* offers. As you are fully capable of operating the pump without my assistance I need to *work the cash, clean/sweep, whatever else you have to do at your job*"