Diesel - Last laugh

[Fergus]

I had to run a couple of errands this morning and one involved visiting our new leisure centre to collect 'er indoors.

Opposite the centre is a BP garage which only had 3 cars waiting to enter the forecourt so only having 1/4 tank I joined the line. All was running very slow* but after about 10 minutes the guy in front of me pulled his bonnet onto the forecourt and was deciding which of the four lines to join. Suddenly a Freelander shot up the outside of the waiting queue (now about 6 cars) and turned in and onto the forecourt where there was 1 car space and he joined the line of 4 cars on the far left pumps.  The guy in the vehicle in front of me was going to jump out but he then noticed the FL contained 2 rough'ish looking guys, so he jumped back into his car and joined the line on the far right set of pumps. This allowed me then to join the second from left where I went straight to a pump while FL guy was still behind 4 cars on the left.

* There was a max of £35 worth of fuel and the pumps were running at about 1/4 speed dispensing fuel so it took me a good 10 minutes to put that much in.

As I left the forecourt FL man had just got to his pump so he then had at east another 10 minutes filling   TWAT.

[leffemonster]

Thankfully I don’t need to fill up - yet - as I’ve got just under 1/3 of a tank left and I don’t use the car much. I dropped Mrs Leffe off at work today, at 08:15. There’s a BP forecourt close to her work which, apparently, was listed on Facebook in the early hours as having had a delivery. Needless to say there was a queue stretching almost a mile on the approach, blocking the road. This meant me doing a wrong-side-of-the-road manoeuvre for about 400 yards to get Mrs L to work - thankfully no oncoming traffic!

When Mrs L got into work one of her colleagues said her husband had got in that queue at 06:30 and eventually made it onto the forecourt at 08:45. Complete and utter madness.