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Sod it...
thermidorthelobster:
Driving home and needed some fuel... Nice and early so looking forward to a relaxing evening. Pulled in to the Texaco station I don't normally use. Grab the blue handle, start to fill up, looking around... Get to 70l and notice the pump is Super Unleaded.
Oh !EXPLETIVE DELETED!.
The garage doesn't have the facilities to do anything so I called the AA. They told me to sit tight for 2 hours, then they would take me to a garage which has the facilities to drain my tank (yeah right, at this time of night.) Of course, I'll have to pay for the privilege of having the tank drained of the fuel I've just paid for, before I have to pay to have it filled up again with diesel.
Great... Just popped home for a coffee as the AA said they'd be anything up to 2 hours.
Contemplated draining it myself, but I don't have enough jerry can space to cope with the best part of 70l, and besides, it's not really feasible to use my battery-drill-powered pump to pump out unleaded petrol on the forecourt of a filling station.
Wouldn't it be nice if Texaco coloured their PETROL pumps something other than navy blue? I can't believe I'm the first idiot to do this. I'm a little colourblind when it comes to navy blue & black, so I'm even more likely to do it in the dark.
Grumpy Dave
strapping young lad:
nah you aint the first to do it
dont morrisons colour their pumps similar too?
muddyweb:
oops...
At least you noticed *before* you started the engine
Xtremeteam:
to start with i thought u were complainin bout fillin ur motor up wi super,but then i realised it was a diesel :shock:
Andy.:
Oops, so did the AA arrive then or is the motor still stranded at the petrol station :?:
They should make the filling holes and pumps different shapes. Bit like those early learning toys where you have to put the correct shaped item into the correct hole, that way unless you have the correct shaped pump you won't fill up wrong :wink:
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