Only ever happened to me once when I was filling up, he was talking about my car (Fiesta ZS) and saying how he had the one before (Mk5) and that they were good little cars, but all other times, nobody is sociable and mostly look grumpy. Is this the same everywhere?
Random Conversations at Petrol Stations
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I went to fill up the gf's car the other night when it was freezing, and the chap at the garage wouldn't let us in so we were forced to queue up at the window.
Cue much hilarity in the building queue with a couple of station patrons, with us taking the mick out of him failing with the till/running around like a blue arsed fly/trying to wedge the chip and pin machine into the night slot. Most amusing.
Guess it was kinda like the blitz spirit thing really, same as you get at train platforms in the piddling rain after being delayed for the umpteenth time etc..
Normally though, you're right. Heads down, pump on, cap back in, pay up and leggit.
Cue much hilarity in the building queue with a couple of station patrons, with us taking the mick out of him failing with the till/running around like a blue arsed fly/trying to wedge the chip and pin machine into the night slot. Most amusing.
Guess it was kinda like the blitz spirit thing really, same as you get at train platforms in the piddling rain after being delayed for the umpteenth time etc..
Normally though, you're right. Heads down, pump on, cap back in, pay up and leggit.
Once I got chatted up in a petrol station by a Ka driving but still quite good looking female in my local BP.
To set the scene I was wearing a dirty bike jacket, needed a hair cut and probably had blood shot eyes due to about 2 hours sleep and a 9 hour day at work.
She was a little excitable about how cool the Type-R was and if I'd seen the red supercharged one on Youtube. There were a couple of awkward silences and smiles while I waited to pay, I think she was moist for it. So after I paid I just walked out (she was next in line after me), maybe I could have got some... but Im a faithful being at heart.
To set the scene I was wearing a dirty bike jacket, needed a hair cut and probably had blood shot eyes due to about 2 hours sleep and a 9 hour day at work.
She was a little excitable about how cool the Type-R was and if I'd seen the red supercharged one on Youtube. There were a couple of awkward silences and smiles while I waited to pay, I think she was moist for it. So after I paid I just walked out (she was next in line after me), maybe I could have got some... but Im a faithful being at heart.
I was filling up last night, and a car pulled up next to me, two youngish guys. I'm not sure what car it was....two doors, little coupé thing, looked like it was fiarly old, late eighties/early nineties. Obviously had a lot of work done to it though....roll cage, sports seats, missing loads of trim. Took him ages to climb out of it.
I was absent mindedly filling up and looking at it, and though I'm not a big fan of modded cars, I couldn't help thinking "That looks like fun
". Both of them didn't look like chavs either, so i figured they must be enthusiastic/knowledgeable about cars....I was very close to asking him what it was, and I think he saw me looking at it. I don't know why I didn't say anything though, perhaps I'm just unsociable.
I was absent mindedly filling up and looking at it, and though I'm not a big fan of modded cars, I couldn't help thinking "That looks like fun
". Both of them didn't look like chavs either, so i figured they must be enthusiastic/knowledgeable about cars....I was very close to asking him what it was, and I think he saw me looking at it. I don't know why I didn't say anything though, perhaps I'm just unsociable.
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So you didn't have a random conversation then?
Probably the most interesting converstation I've had was when someone said to me I looked a bit young for the car, and said I must use a good cream, then I pointed out I was just turned 19 and watched their jaw drop
I had one a while ago while on the way home from a mates.
Went into the shop to pay for my fuel when the guy in front turns around to me, "Is that your Rover mate?"
"Yeah"
"It's really smart, you've done a good job. It looks great for a Rover"
"Heh, cheers."
He then asked what it was, so I told him it was a Turbo etc etc. He walked outside and gave it a good look over, nodding his head.
Always nice to recieve compliments like that, especially when the car is as dirty as it was
Went into the shop to pay for my fuel when the guy in front turns around to me, "Is that your Rover mate?"
"Yeah"
"It's really smart, you've done a good job. It looks great for a Rover"
"Heh, cheers."
He then asked what it was, so I told him it was a Turbo etc etc. He walked outside and gave it a good look over, nodding his head.
Always nice to recieve compliments like that, especially when the car is as dirty as it was
Me and my boss were in the petrol station and he was filling up his 330d when some bloke came up to him and started talking...
Apparently he got out the car behind us (Ford KA) and just walked over and said "nice car mate, I have an Audi S4 at home, just driving the wife's car as mine is at the garage"
It was like something out of Ricky Gervais or something, the guy was genuinely bragging about his "other car" and excusing his current car... we didn't care?! like we even noticed him! muppet
Apparently he got out the car behind us (Ford KA) and just walked over and said "nice car mate, I have an Audi S4 at home, just driving the wife's car as mine is at the garage"
It was like something out of Ricky Gervais or something, the guy was genuinely bragging about his "other car" and excusing his current car... we didn't care?! like we even noticed him! muppet
Sitting in the passenger seat of a mate's beetle, half asleep after sharing driving duties from Cornwall to Scotch corner following a week-long reunion/party/road trip thing with very little rest...
I heard a tap on the window, looked up and there was a guy in his forties beaming at me.
Opened the window and the conversation went something like:
Him: Ooooh that's lovely, that is. Is it yours?
Me: Nope...
Him: I used to have one just like this when I were your age. Only it wasn't broken...
Me: Pardon? It's not broken...We've driven about 2,000 miles in it in the last week!
Him: It must be...Mine didn't look like that...
Me: What do you mean?
Him: All rusty and with broken suspension...Does it drive?
Me: It got here didn't it?
Him: Er...
Straaange.
*n
I heard a tap on the window, looked up and there was a guy in his forties beaming at me.
Opened the window and the conversation went something like:
Him: Ooooh that's lovely, that is. Is it yours?
Me: Nope...
Him: I used to have one just like this when I were your age. Only it wasn't broken...
Me: Pardon? It's not broken...We've driven about 2,000 miles in it in the last week!
Him: It must be...Mine didn't look like that...
Me: What do you mean?
Him: All rusty and with broken suspension...Does it drive?
Me: It got here didn't it?
Him: Er...
Straaange.
*n
I had one a while ago while on the way home from a mates.
Went into the shop to pay for my fuel when the guy in front turns around to me, "Is that your Rover mate?"
"Yeah"
"It's really smart, you've done a good job. It looks great for a Rover"
"Heh, cheers."
He then asked what it was, so I told him it was a Turbo etc etc. He walked outside and gave it a good look over, nodding his head.
Always nice to recieve compliments like that, especially when the car is as dirty as it was
Vicious lies, that make the baby Jesus cry.
So you didn't have a random conversation then?
Probably the most interesting converstation I've had was when someone said to me I looked a bit young for the car, and said I must use a good cream, then I pointed out I was just turned 19 and watched their jaw drop
True, just kind of odd that this is the first time I've ever contemplated talking to someone about their car while refuelling, and then I come here next day to find a thread about it.