Petrol stations, open on Xmas day?

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I only fill my car up when its virtually empty, and need to to drive about 200 miles tommorrow.
I have about 50 or so miles left in the tank, and dont want to drive my car tonight, had a glass of wine, and dont like driving after any drinks at all.

So, should i go fill up tonight, or will I be ok to fill up on the motorway on my journey tommorrow?

Cheeers :D
 
Yup, a lot will be open, I worked in a town center one on xmas day once

If you're worried, call the station and ask
 
I'd fill tonight. Not all stations are open on xmas day, and I'd not be wanting to pay the extortionate motorway pricing anyway. So I'd go to a local one, now.
 
No they don't, I can fill at the local tesco when it's completely shut, lights off, no-one home.

Really!? Im sure there were rules saying they had to be monitored by a human being, at least there were when I worked in a petrol station a few years back
 
No they don't, I can fill at the local tesco when it's completely shut, lights off, no-one home.

Best time to do it, so many numpties at my local tesco don't know how to queue up at a filling station, rather than just joining a queue and waiting inline they think its fine to wait at the entrance of the forecourt to see where a space appears thus causing a huge tailback on to the shopping entrance road.
 
No they don't, I can fill at the local tesco when it's completely shut, lights off, no-one home.

Not sure about that to be honest, probably somebody sat hidden away monitoring it via CCTV.

My place is open 24/7 over xmas and the new year, working xmas day 2-10 for triple time which is way better than the normal family arguments anyday :)
 
Best time to do it, so many numpties at my local tesco don't know how to queue up at a filling station, rather than just joining a queue and waiting inline they think its fine to wait at the entrance of the forecourt to see where a space appears thus causing a huge tailback on to the shopping entrance road.

well said that man

i got dogs abuse recently for driving around the bloke parked in the entrance to my local shell station. Pulled up behind a car, waited about 3 minutes, moved forward and got out.. the numpty had decided to go to the pump next to me.

'hoi ********.. ever heard of xxxxxxx waiting?'

me '?'

'yeah... theres a xxxxxxx line there ya xxxxxxx xxxx, next time xxxxxxx wait ya xxxxxxx chump'

me ' eh ok... u need to chill out '

' xxxxxxx chill out???? u need a xxxxxxx slap, xxxx'

me ' ok...im here when your ready, off to pay now tho'

his wife was properly embarassed, to really wind him up, by the time i got to the till he was filling up so i told the cashier that he was on his phone, she shut his pump off. :D
 
And the same cretin who parked at pump one for 45 minutes last week on our forecourt blocking an HGV from getting fuel, was suprised that the HGV driver didn't just push him out of the way.
 
And the same cretin who parked at pump one for 45 minutes last week on our forecourt blocking an HGV from getting fuel, was suprised that the HGV driver didn't just push him out of the way.

Wow, brave guy to do that.

Certainly would have been warned at the filling station I worked at, some of the drivers that came thru there were.. characterful to say the least.
 
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