On a wee tour os Scotland Last week, fully laden, went to fill up with fuel in BP Broadford, Isle of Skye.
Have taken the gloves off, have taken the Tank Bag off, am trying to get the petrol to come out of the wee nozzle! Nothing! Then a wee lad is dispatched to inform me that they cannot authorise the pump unless I get off the bike! Now I still have my helmet on, and I said, "are you sure you want me to get off the bike",
"Yes sir, we cant authorise the pump until you have got off the bike."
oh ok then, so i get off the bike, and say to the wee lad, "is that it authorised now then?"
"Aye" says he.
I say, "now what?"
he says " You can fill it up!"
I say, "Not like that i cant, its leaning too far over to get a full tank, the bike needs to be upright to fill up!"
He says " I will hold it up for you!"
I say " Oh No You wont! Nobody is touching my bike but me! Why cant i just sit on my bike and fill it, like I do every 200 miles?
He Says" its a Health & Safety thing about sitting on something that could explode whilst filling it with fuel!"
I say" What, and thats better than standing next to something than shouldnt explode when filling it? I work in health and safety and your talking shite wee man!"
He Says " But my manager............"
I says " Your manager is an arse hole and i am taking my business else where!"
So off i trott having got the gloves and the ferckin tank bag back on, and head for Kyle, in the determined fashion that I really dont run out of fuel before here and then!
And then the worst thought occurs to me. what would i have done if i was the wee lad
in a remote part of Scotland and some w****er gives me dogs abuse, I would have phoned ahead to the next service station and said, there is a wee bloke on black GS coming your way, i think hes drunk, dont serve him!
Thankfully he didnt!
Has anyone else been forced off their bikes to fill up?
First Helmets off, now this!
Does any one work in Motor Health and safety have an opinion?
Cheers
M
Have taken the gloves off, have taken the Tank Bag off, am trying to get the petrol to come out of the wee nozzle! Nothing! Then a wee lad is dispatched to inform me that they cannot authorise the pump unless I get off the bike! Now I still have my helmet on, and I said, "are you sure you want me to get off the bike",
"Yes sir, we cant authorise the pump until you have got off the bike."
oh ok then, so i get off the bike, and say to the wee lad, "is that it authorised now then?"
"Aye" says he.
I say, "now what?"
he says " You can fill it up!"
I say, "Not like that i cant, its leaning too far over to get a full tank, the bike needs to be upright to fill up!"
He says " I will hold it up for you!"
I say " Oh No You wont! Nobody is touching my bike but me! Why cant i just sit on my bike and fill it, like I do every 200 miles?
He Says" its a Health & Safety thing about sitting on something that could explode whilst filling it with fuel!"
I say" What, and thats better than standing next to something than shouldnt explode when filling it? I work in health and safety and your talking shite wee man!"
He Says " But my manager............"
I says " Your manager is an arse hole and i am taking my business else where!"
So off i trott having got the gloves and the ferckin tank bag back on, and head for Kyle, in the determined fashion that I really dont run out of fuel before here and then!
And then the worst thought occurs to me. what would i have done if i was the wee lad
in a remote part of Scotland and some w****er gives me dogs abuse, I would have phoned ahead to the next service station and said, there is a wee bloke on black GS coming your way, i think hes drunk, dont serve him!
Thankfully he didnt!
Has anyone else been forced off their bikes to fill up?
First Helmets off, now this!
Does any one work in Motor Health and safety have an opinion?
Cheers
M
Always up for a argument
