Tesco, payign before getting petrol into a cannister?
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The other day I went into KFC.
£100 shirt from "Da Shop", £60 Jeans from "Coolness", £85 Shoes from "Knob Shop" & £50 hat from "Hats R Us".
Ordered my food and the guy behind the counter said "£6.50 please".
I'm like - no way, I eat my food first and then I pay.
He said something about policy and the like.
So I say "Look mate, I'm wearing £295 worth of clothes and that is without taking my under-crackers into consideration (which were silk and worth around £20 BTW).
But he was insitant - I had to pay before eating.
Idiot.
£100 shirt from "Da Shop", £60 Jeans from "Coolness", £85 Shoes from "Knob Shop" & £50 hat from "Hats R Us".
Ordered my food and the guy behind the counter said "£6.50 please".
I'm like - no way, I eat my food first and then I pay.
He said something about policy and the like.
So I say "Look mate, I'm wearing £295 worth of clothes and that is without taking my under-crackers into consideration (which were silk and worth around £20 BTW).
But he was insitant - I had to pay before eating.
Idiot.
LOL
Not only theft, there's also the problem with people attempting to fill a container that are totally unsuitable for holding fuel, such as drinks bottles, milk bottles, i also heard about somebody whom attempted to fill a beer can
Not only is it illegal for us to autorise the sale of fuel into these types of containers, if the police catch you, the person and the garage are both screwed.
A few people can't be bothered/don't want to purchase a suitable container, at the tesco garage i work at we allow people to borrow the spare one we have . Provided they put a deposit down for it, they return with the container and they get they're money back
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They normally make you leave your card with them while you fill up the can around here then you go in and complete the payment when you are done. Not that much hastle really though is it? It's not as if they can take your reg plate so they can identify you if you nick off with it... and how does he know you aint stole the clothes too
It doesn't specially have to be a card, its generally any form of vaild identification.
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Wow a lot of petrol station bashing going on the last few days! Its done to stop chavs running off with a can of fuel, not that hard to understand surely? People dont seem to understand for some reason that petrol stations lose so much money to people stealing fuel and therefore have to put in "silly" regulations to reduce it. If you want to be able to fill up your canister before paying, I suggest you go talk to the local council estate youngsters and persuade them to pay for their fuel in future 
It isn’t just me then who finds that comment highly amusing and fits the profile of the OP!
I'm sorry that thinking that buying from Next makes you a 'reliable, always pay on time, never broken the law' person......who is filling up a petrol can.
If you fill up your car tank and drive away, they have your numberplate atleast. If you fill up your canister and run, they have nothing apart from a description of a scally in Next clothing.
Common sense? Its not a chore at all, its what you should do.
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tbh most chavs i know wouldn't be caught dead buying clothes from such low rent shops such as next and River island lol
I have a several items of clothing worth more than your whole outfit, as i am sure many other people here do.
Have you not seen the threads on here "spec me a £4k watch" etc
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I have to do it all the time in the truck, then back in for the receipt, a pain if theres a big que and your in a rush.
Wow a lot of petrol station bashing going on the last few days! Its done to stop chavs running off with a can of fuel, not that hard to understand surely? People dont seem to understand for some reason that petrol stations lose so much money to people stealing fuel and therefore have to put in "silly" regulations to reduce it. If you want to be able to fill up your canister before paying, I suggest you go talk to the local council estate youngsters and persuade them to pay for their fuel in future
Why should we, the decent law abiding people, be inconvenienced by silly regulations because of a bunch of good for nothing chavs, who are simply scum and a burden on society.
It is the police's job to lock up the scumbags, so perhaps if they started doing their job and rounded up all the scummy chavs we might actually have a better country. Hell you can even put them to good use as part of a chain-gang repairing roads.
I am sick and ****ing tired of the comments that say "well it's because there are ****s that steal fuel that we have this in place"; instead of tackling the issue and making it annoying for everyone else to do the stuff they wanna do, tackle the cause of the issue.
Just like security at the airport, they don't need to search me ..I'm white, black/brown haired and British. It's the Muslim guy next to me that needs to be searched (or int he olden days the ginger Irish dude). But no, if I happent o walk though the metal detector wearing a LIGHT jacket coz the airport is freaking freezing I get the mandatory "please remove the jacket and scan it" stuff, making me have to be in a tshirt in a cold airport getting patted down.
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Go American.
Make people pay upfront. I don't see why it can't be done and you will solve the problem of bilking overnight.
Make people pay upfront. I don't see why it can't be done and you will solve the problem of bilking overnight.
You poor thing. I've never heard such a load of bull.