Petrol pump stopping

thelawnet

Pulled in at Shell this morning to get some petrol and was checking flight time on my phone while fuelling. Petrol got to £30 and stopped.

!!!!!!? I thought, and looked up and thought 'are they worried about me doing a runner or something?' It started again, got to £50 then stopped again.

Eventually some random customer came out of the shop, and shouted at me that it was a a fire risk :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: and that was why there were stopping it.

pendulum

Didn't you see the signs everywhere that say no mobile phones?
Their property, their rules at the end of the day, whether it's actually a genuine fire risk or not. Pay attention when you refuel rather than fiddling with your phone and there won't be a problem

Tilt

Yes, and your point is?

s_b

thelawnet wrote: »

Pulled in at Shell this morning to get some petrol and was checking flight time on my phone while fuelling. Petrol got to £30 and stopped.

!!!!!!? I thought, and looked up and thought 'are they worried about me doing a runner or something?' It started again, got to £50 then stopped again.

Eventually some random customer came out of the shop, and shouted at me that it was a a fire risk :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: and that was why there were stopping it.

were you wearing a dunces cap at the time?
maybe attendant was telling you it was on upside down or sometin g

jackieb

It doesn't matter that it was a mobile phone, the fact is you weren't giving your full intention to putting in the fuel and could have spilled it - maybe that was the reason they were stopping it.

thelawnet

jackieb wrote: »

It doesn't matter that it was a mobile phone, the fact is you weren't giving your full intention to putting in the fuel and could have spilled it - maybe that was the reason they were stopping it.

Or perhaps it was because they were bored on a bank holiday morning and had nothing better to do.

rdwarr

thelawnet wrote: »

Or perhaps it was because they were bored on a bank holiday morning and had nothing better to do.

Perhaps you should change your username to "abovethelawnet"

getzls

They don't like it. When i worked in an oil terminal on security we took mobiles and lighters of vehicles entering. Also no radios were allowed to be used on the site.

rdwarr

I'm aware of one incident in Turkey in the 1990s where a mobile may have sparked an explosion at a filling station (this is when I worked for BP). But the point is, if there's loads of signs saying "Don't use mobiles", then don't use mobiles.
It really is that simple.

thelawnet

rdwarr wrote: »

Perhaps you should change your username to "abovethelawnet"

Well maybe if it was the law.....

s_b

you obviously dont understand petrol fumes lawless one
do me a favour dont fill up next to me in a petrol station whilst on the phone because you wont be doing it for long if you do
never heard anything so stupid as questioning why its wrong
and reading your past posts there seems to be a bit of intelligence there too among the smugness