OT: Petrol pump and zeroising

The previous user may have driven off without payment?

Because pulling the trigger stops the pump starting, and sometimes they dont reset the pump with the nozzle out of its holster

And that is exactly where this thread started!

But that was only one country. He didn't wake up each morning to find a new country outside the bedroom curtains.

That would make it very hard for the operators to tell the difference between one of your 'decent people' and a drive-away scrote.

However in the petrol stations that I generally use, there are no such places - so decent people either pay at the pump or have little choice but to leave their car at the pump whilst paying.

No connection to what you are doing though !!.

The usage of the previous customer is irrelevant, it has been logged on their till software after the nozzle was replaced at the pump and the pump stopped, and is nothing to do with you.

The correct action for *you* is the put the nozzle in your filler cap and simply wait for the pump to activate.

Utter bollocks. They don't reset the pump until *after* you have removed the nozzle from the pump.

What are you waiting for though ?. Just stick it where it belongs, surely?.

There was one of those on the A1 in 1970 (I cannot recall exactly where on the A1, but roughly between Sheffield and Teeside[1]. My friend was determined to find out exactly what it was scanning for (the metal strip maybe?) - not with felonious intent, but for the challenge it presented. I think 4 star was around 37 pence per gallon then - but I could be wrong.

Presumably a less salubrious area then.

My station has a full shop attached as well

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M&S! And you call that salubrious!

We refuel at Waitrose thank you very much.[1] (Well, sometimes it's at Tesco - but we don't talk about than.)

The AREA is more slubrious. Its a BP station.

Its not a supermarket

No fuel at waitrose here.

Engine used to knock on Tesco fuel :-) And I got less mpg

Bit late to the party, but is this perhaps a throwback to the old mechanical dials. I am sure I can just remember in my very early motoring days picking up the handle and watching the dials (as in mechanical reels) spin round to zero, from the last customer. This was in the very early days of self service. (there was no central office and you had to go in and tell the guy in the hut how much petrol you had just pumped - yes we did used to live in a society like that in my youth

- in rural areas at least). I am sure they used to have a sign which said ensure all dials return to zero before inserting nozzle. On just a couple of times it didn’t quite return to zero and you had to replace the handle and get it to recycle.