All too frequently, the modern driver can approach the modern petrol pump, draw up alongside, and find a 'Sorry Out of Order' sign. Yes, we have no petrol.
Reversing out of a position in a petrol station isn't the easiest of tasks and may well be nigh on impossible. They are frequently designed for driving through and not turning around or worse adjusting yourself into another lane that does have petrol.
So, yesterday I decided to broker a suggestion that such signs would be more helpful on the end of the pump for the oncoming driver.
I had a good crowd for this presentation because there were three people in uniforms when I entered the crisp shop including a couple of mature British gentleman.
I handed over my cash and gifted them my suggestion.
One (the one who was checking the books or cleaning the floor or picking his nose or something) immediately shouted out "Nobody ever looks at signs!"
"Right OK" I thought to myself. "Let's park that".
The man who just taken my money offered a further suggestion. "The only sign you can get around here is this..", he laughed, as he displayed his favourite two archery fingers.
Now fortunately I haven't entirely lost my sense of humour, so I joined in with a chorus of "Yes I could see today's service suggestion was falling on several sets of deaf ears".
And left.
Mercifully, in this age of letters, complaint and general points of view, I was laughing and the shop assistant was laughing (possibly a little harder fearing a complaint). By the time I was driving off I was still smiling and glanced up.
He was grinning at me through the window and was waving at me as though he was sending a close relative on a world cruise. All that was missing was the ticker tape and the brass band.
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