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  • I love love love it when customers try to kill me!

    Story of a female SC who is officially too stupid to live. The SC first seemed like a normal customer who filled up her car, came into the kiosk, paid, then left. That's when the problems started... when her car did not. The SC then did the following things.

    1. She used her phone on the forecourt. Pretty minor, yes, due to the small chance of the battery igniting, but still merits a mention. My colleague Sara used the tannoy to tell her to come inside or sit in her car, and she chose to sit inside her car.

    2. She lit up a cigarette. After making her call, the SC decided that she wanted a cigarette. Instead of walking across the road and lighting up away from the pumps, she got out of her car and lit up, right next to the pump. Cue Sara running outside like a bat out of hell and screaming at her to put it out right now. She did, but acted as tho Sara was overreacting. She was extremely rude to Sara and also patronising. Um, dumbarse, you do NOT smoke on a petrol station! How thick do you have to be to not know that?

    3. She wanted to use jump leads on the forecourt. This involves another person, the SC's brother who drove in with jump leads. At the time, I was there refilling the gloves and overheard her arguing with him about having to push the car off the forecourt and round the corner. "We can just do it here!" she whined. I immediately went over there to tell her that no, she couldn't do it here. "But it would only take a minute!" was her reply. Yes, idiot, and it would also only take a minute for spark to meet vapour and for the whole place to go up in a hellish explosion. Luckily, faced with opposition from me, her brother and other customers who didn't fancy the thought of meeting their maker that day, SC caved in and sulkily allowed her brother to push her car off the forecourt.

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  • #2
    HOW did she manage to pass the licensing test, with an apparent IQ room temperature or below?
    "Crazy may always be open for business, but on the full moon, it has buy one get one free specials." - WishfulSpirit

    "Sometimes customers remind me of zombies, but I'm pretty sure that zombies are smarter." - MelindaJoy77

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    • #3
      Quoth Lace Neil Singer View Post
      2. She lit up a cigarette.

      ...

      3. She wanted to use jump leads on the forecourt.
      Can you call the police to report a suicide attempt?

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      • #4
        I see a Darwin Award win in her near future.
        "Ignorance is no excuse for a law."
        .................................................. ..................- Alfred E. Newman

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        • #5
          Quoth South Texan View Post
          I see a Darwin Award win in her near future.
          It doesn't count if you take other people with you, tho. O_o
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          • #6
            I'm just sitting here trying to reboot my brain after the sheer amount of stupidity that woman displayed. How many different ways can you try to set the gas station on fire?

            And while I don't hold much to the cell phones at gas stations thing, I'm also not going to risk the attendant killing the pumps just because I felt the need to answer the phone while standing on the forecourt. So I leave my phone in the car.
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            • #7
              Speaking as someone who works in a gas station there is nothing like shutting the entire station down and announcing over the speaker system I can't turn anything back on because the person on pump X is on the phone or smoking.

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              • #8
                I love love love it when customers try to kill me!
                ^ lol know the feeling. But I can kill them back.
                AkaiKitsune
                Sarcasm dear, sarcasm. I’m well aware that dealing with civilians in any capacity will skin your faith in humanity alive, then pickle anything that remains so as to watch it shrivel up into an immortal husk thus reminding you of how dead inside you now are.

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                • #9
                  The only time I got a call while gassing up I walked away from the pump to answer it. I told them I'd talk to them later because the traffic noise was too loud for me to hear them.
                  "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                  • #10
                    Quoth dougall View Post
                    Speaking as someone who works in a gas station there is nothing like shutting the entire station down and announcing over the speaker system I can't turn anything back on because the person on pump X is on the phone or smoking.
                    Lol, then every other customer will look daggers at the SC and not blame you.
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                    • #11
                      Batteries do a fine job of blowing up during jumping, even without gasoline... (This happens when you don't use a distant ground point on the dead car during jumping.)

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Lace Neil Singer View Post
                        Lol, then every other customer will look daggers at the SC and not blame you.
                        In a perfect world, yes. But it'll still be your fault because she was smoking (or whatever) in the first place.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth sirwired View Post
                          Batteries do a fine job of blowing up during jumping, even without gasoline... (This happens when you don't use a distant ground point on the dead car during jumping.)
                          I wish I could get people to understand that - and that the distant ground should be connected LAST. Every time I warn someone of this, I get the 'Well, I've never had a battery blow up on me YET..." excuse.

                          Yeah. I know. Not YET. I know this because if you ever DID have a battery explode on you, you'd be hooking things up MY way, I promise you. You really don't want THOSE experience points. They hurt. A LOT. And you get a second dose of pain paying for the emergency room, ambulance ride, etc.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Seanette View Post
                            HOW did she manage to pass the licensing test, with an apparent IQ room temperature or below?
                            Lucky guesses as they are all multiple choice. As most questions on the Illinois exam are common sense, we have the conclude good guesses or bribery.
                            Any chance of banning this inferno waiting to happen?
                            I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!

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                            -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Lace Neil Singer View Post
                              It doesn't count if you take other people with you, tho. O_o

                              heh yeah over here in the States we tend to label them 'suicide bombers' aka terrorists

                              Just kidding Mods
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