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PostPosted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:11 am 
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Remind me of one driver who use to pee in a bottle whilst in the car, then empty the bottle in the road.

And then for good measure put the empty bottle back in the car. :shock:

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There'a big 24 hour Tesco and an Asda in Slough. Can't they use that?


I think you'll find they're for customer use. Is there anything you can buy in either shop for a penny :wink:


I guess technically you could put in one penny's worth of Diesel...not be easy though but possible..


As funny as that is I think you'll find there is a minimum purchase on the pumps :wink: There's also the possibility the fuel side of the 24hr is closed :shock:


You'll not thank me for it the next time we are parked up some romantic country lane and I run out of fuel because they have slapped a mininum purchase value on the Pump........Times are hard ya know and what with fuel prices going up etc, etc... :roll:


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There'a big 24 hour Tesco and an Asda in Slough. Can't they use that?


I think you'll find they're for customer use. Is there anything you can buy in either shop for a penny :wink:


Ah, but I'm a customer there anyway, does it necessarily mean you have to buy something there and use their loo in the same visit?! :wink:

Besides I've done it plenty of times, supermarkets, petrol stations, McDonalds, hotels, without ever buying anything. I find that most staff won't mind or even notice as long as you're polite and neatly dressed - especially in the hotels. :)


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Most petrol stations have a minimum fuel purchase of 2 litres. Used to be half a gallon years ago.

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There'a big 24 hour Tesco and an Asda in Slough. Can't they use that?


I think you'll find they're for customer use. Is there anything you can buy in either shop for a penny :wink:


I guess technically you could put in one penny's worth of Diesel...not be easy though but possible..


And the minimum purchase of 2 litres ? :roll:


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Most petrol stations have a minimum fuel purchase of 2 litres. Used to be half a gallon years ago.


Cant say as Ive noticed a minimum purchase at any of my local pumps...I must look for one next time :?


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One Shell station I went to, had a minimum purchase of 5 litres, which is about the size of a tank of a small scooter.


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Most petrol stations have a minimum fuel purchase of 2 litres. Used to be half a gallon years ago.


Cant say as Ive noticed a minimum purchase at any of my local pumps...I must look for one next time :?


It's sometimes on the pump in small letters, just above where the price clocks up.

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gusmac wrote:
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Most petrol stations have a minimum fuel purchase of 2 litres. Used to be half a gallon years ago.


Cant say as Ive noticed a minimum purchase at any of my local pumps...I must look for one next time :?


It's sometimes on the pump in small letters, just above where the price clocks up.


Thats the case around these here parts.

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Everybody has their facility at work which they can use whilst being paid a decent hourly wage, not only office workers, but bus-drivers and constructors, also, all, except us. I have witnessed bus-stops with loos for bus-drivers only and the public ones for us, where you have to get the key at a kiosque standing in queue, annoying the staff, I have personally been turned down when asking for in a pub, I´m sick and tired of all the hippokrates expecting me to drive 2 or 3 k´s to the loo at the office, very often locked up anyhow, or even being exposed to unlawful sexual activities in public ones! For chrissake, we are at work, not on a pub-crawl!

Install at each rank a box like those for construction workers and give each cabbie a key for it - and if this doesn´t help, THEN complain about drivers who still urinate where they better not should.

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