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At the petrol station, there are seven things we have to look out for before we can even authorise a pump for use. One of these is that every single person using the pump has to be over sixteen years of age. This is the story of a woman not only ignorant of this fact, but also ignorant of everything.
Mother Of The Year (MOTY) turned up at the petrol station accompanied by her young son. I'm not very good on children's ages, but since he was wearing school uniform, I'm guessing five or six years at the most. In any case, definitely not sixteen. MOTY started off by holding the hose herself and correctly placing it in her SUV. When the pump was switched on, she handed it to her son and wandered off to the left. I immediately stopped the pump. MOTY came back, presumably in response to her son's shout of, "Mummy, the pump stopped!" and took it off him, seemingly taking over the task.
Silly me, I assumed that she had seen the error of her ways and restarted the pump. But get this, the moment it restarted, she did exactly the same thing; handed the hose to her kid and wandered off.
Needless to say, I stopped the pump again. This time, it obviously was made clear to MOTY that the pump was not stopping by itself, but being stopped by me. She came storming into the kiosk.
"Stop switching my pump off!" she screamed at me. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
I replied, "I'm sorry, but it's against the law to allow an under sixteen to operate the pump."
"What kind of stupid law is that?" she shrieked. "I was there all the time, supervising him. I'm going to complain and get you fired, you stupid bitch!"
She paid for the small amount of petrol she'd gotten, served by my colleague as I refused to serve her, and stormed out. By this time, I'd picked up the phone out back and called the manager over the road, Craig, to give him a heads up on the deranged woman heading in his direction, including what had happened and how rude she'd been to me. Later, he came over to see me about it. Apparently, MOTY had shouted her complaint at him, denied having been rude, and had lied about the incident, claiming that I'd stopped her pump twice for no reason.
"OK," Craig had said. "If that's the case, then the CCTV will back you up."
MOTY had gone strangely silent at that. I'd already found the footage on the camera, and it clearly showed MOTY wandering off, leaving her young son at the pump. Craig then told her that he wasn't going to do anything as I had acted correctly, and would she please leave as she was now banned. MOTY had stormed out, swearing revenge.
Mother Of The Year (MOTY) turned up at the petrol station accompanied by her young son. I'm not very good on children's ages, but since he was wearing school uniform, I'm guessing five or six years at the most. In any case, definitely not sixteen. MOTY started off by holding the hose herself and correctly placing it in her SUV. When the pump was switched on, she handed it to her son and wandered off to the left. I immediately stopped the pump. MOTY came back, presumably in response to her son's shout of, "Mummy, the pump stopped!" and took it off him, seemingly taking over the task.
Silly me, I assumed that she had seen the error of her ways and restarted the pump. But get this, the moment it restarted, she did exactly the same thing; handed the hose to her kid and wandered off.
Needless to say, I stopped the pump again. This time, it obviously was made clear to MOTY that the pump was not stopping by itself, but being stopped by me. She came storming into the kiosk."Stop switching my pump off!" she screamed at me. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
I replied, "I'm sorry, but it's against the law to allow an under sixteen to operate the pump."
"What kind of stupid law is that?" she shrieked. "I was there all the time, supervising him. I'm going to complain and get you fired, you stupid bitch!"
She paid for the small amount of petrol she'd gotten, served by my colleague as I refused to serve her, and stormed out. By this time, I'd picked up the phone out back and called the manager over the road, Craig, to give him a heads up on the deranged woman heading in his direction, including what had happened and how rude she'd been to me. Later, he came over to see me about it. Apparently, MOTY had shouted her complaint at him, denied having been rude, and had lied about the incident, claiming that I'd stopped her pump twice for no reason.
"OK," Craig had said. "If that's the case, then the CCTV will back you up."
MOTY had gone strangely silent at that. I'd already found the footage on the camera, and it clearly showed MOTY wandering off, leaving her young son at the pump. Craig then told her that he wasn't going to do anything as I had acted correctly, and would she please leave as she was now banned. MOTY had stormed out, swearing revenge.
I wish there was a like button, that made me giggle. XD
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