All the local filling stations near us, have been closed for several days, with a few deliveries to Sainsbury’s and Tesco, that resulted in long queues and running out within the day.
On Tuesday morning, I was at the gym, when the PT’s wife left the gym office to pop off to Tesco’s to buy a few things.
She returned about 20 minutes later and said the Tesco filling station was open and she managed to fill up, while she was there.
She only queued, on the forecourt itself, for a few minutes behind a few cars and was in and out in 5 or 10 minutes.
When my gym session ended, about half an hour later, I drove over to the same Tesco’s only to find I couldn’t get anywhere near the place, due to a long queue stretching for what must be over a quarter mile down the road.
The queue was completely blocking the road going in that direction, with no way of overtaking it to get past.
I turned around before I got stuck and went straight home.
No queue to a long queue in half an hour.
Social media at work again!
Any news on fuel availability has spread round here like wildfire.
On Wednesday lunchtime, I was on my way to B&Q when I spotted a short queue at the local BP fill station.
They had been closed earlier on.
I just reacted and joined the back of the queue, almost without having a chance to think about it.
Maybe that’s what other people have been doing?
Although on half a tank, plenty for two or three week’s needs under normal conditions, we have to make a long trip this coming weekend, to visit my elderly mother-in-law in Kent. So we needed a full tank.
The queue moved fairly quickly and staff were regulating entry into the filling station forecourt, asking what grade of fuel you were after and directing you into each lane accordingly.
It was very well organised.
I drew the short straw though, as I was directed to follow a small, Ford Transit sized, mini skip truck.
He was next and I waited in line behind him.
When it was his turn, the skip truck driver seemed to take bl**dy ages to fill up with diesel.
God knows how big his tank was?
Then he waddled off to pay and didn’t come back.
I just knew that he was probably in the shop, buying stuff, instead of paying and moving on.
Drivers of vehicles in the adjacent lanes were filling up, going in to pay (no pay at the pump at this site) and driving off, while I waited for this fat git to come back to his truck.
After what seemed like ages, he finally reappeared and confirmed my suspicion, being loaded up with food, snacks and cans of coke.
What a tw**.
People queuing down the road, some of who may have been worried or even desperate to ensure they had enough fuel to get to work, or support elderly relatives..or a whole host of genuine reasons…and this selfish blob probably couldn’t have given a toss.
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