All I want is a pint of fuel

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Dipper_Dave:
Blimey haven’t heard of this for years, circa 1990’s.

I remember one time when I too was a little wet behind the ears that I was approached whilst at Magor services by 3 gentlemen who didn’t have a good tooth between them enquiring if they could perchance purchase £5 worth of diesel to help them with their journey.
The exact phrasing I’ve duly translated was along the lines of: “Top O the morning drive, spare us a fiver’s worth of diesel would ya it’ll be grand so it will”.

Being slightly outnumbered and feeble I duly accepted the £5 note and undid my fuel cap, some chit chat ensued but I was mainly thinking please don’t kill me I haven’t tried ■■■■ yet.

Anyway 2 of the lads buggered off which I presumed was to tap other drivers up or take part in a ■■■■ fight of some sort. Thus leaving me in the capable hands of ‘Shamus’ who had a face even a mother would struggle to love and to be kind would struggle to empty water out of a Wellington boot even if the instructions where written on the sole.

So here we are myself and an extra from the ‘hills have eyes’ faced with the epic task of syphoning fuel from my truck into a 45gallon drum. Obviously at this point it dawned on me these lads where going to get excellent value for money, especially when a circular hand pump was produced.
Within seconds Shamus was spinning the pump with all his might. It took four attempts of ‘OK Shamus that’s enough’ before the sucking stopped and we said our fairwells and parted company.

To this day I am still confused as to how I left the services with more fuel than I came in with but do wonder if Shamus got the beating of his life for perhaps having the pump the wrong way round.
True-ish story…

It’s these sort of shenanigans that give the travelling community a bad name.

Post of the year…

Candidate.

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Drift:
I’ve just nearly wet myself :laughing: :laughing:

May I suggest using Tenna for men :laughing:

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robroy:

dieseldog999:

Les Shoes:
Diesel and load all present and correct this morning. I guess they couldn’t be bothered to go out on the rob in the rain

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lucky you then.
if they had robbed you and you called plod,as soon as they smelt drink from you,then it would be a quick debate and a quicker drunk in charge or drunk driving assuming 3 pints would put you over the limit.
bit of a win win for you there…

Mmmm …not so sure about that one DD :neutral_face:
Card out, (or in booked on daily rest) curtains drawn, booked off on timesheet, and for good measure keys out of ignition,.and a designated bunk in cab.
Why would they even assume he had any intention of moving off before his 11 minimum was up, or more so how are they going to prove it?

The best they could do would be check later that he was still there before his rest period was done.

You hear about this sort of stuff, about so and so got nicked etc, but I just put it down to rdc drivercrap.

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keys in possession.drunk driving.thats the proof.
if the gypjops came back on the rob,or the truck next bay caught fire,its reasonable to assume you would drive off ,hence in control of the truck whilst over the limit.
fortunately theres not a lot of chance but all it would need is for plod to smell beer on you and no doubt it would be grief.

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peirre:

Drift:
I’ve just nearly wet myself :laughing: :laughing:

May I suggest using Tenna for men :laughing:

A fiver is slightly smaller,and fits snugly into one’s gusset :laughing: :laughing:

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You could park on craddock road that’s over the road from Tesco an the pub it’s a busy road but normally ok after 17.00 when all the units clear out never had any trouble down there

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Bulldog1986:
You could park on craddock road that’s over the road from Tesco an the pub it’s a busy road but normally ok after 17.00 when all the units clear out never had any trouble down there

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You get the caravan owners, down there, just lately trailers being opened, etc, then there’s the noise. Last resort anywhere around Luton or Dunstable, to many caravan owners,

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Bulldog1986:
You could park on craddock road that’s over the road from Tesco an the pub it’s a busy road but normally ok after 17.00 when all the units clear out never had any trouble down there

Thanks. I’ve parked there in the past too. Never had any bother on Eastern Avenue before and I’ve parked there at least a dozen times.

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Mazzer2:

Punchy Dan:

Les Shoes:
How does this one work then?
Parked up in Dunstable and I get a bang on the door, fella in a flat cap with a caravan dwelling accent has apparently broken down in the car park opposite and all he needs is enough fuel to fill the filter, apparently he’ll give me a fiver for it.
I know he’s on the blag, I just can’t figure out what he’s after.

This same / car bloke approached the driver of a red Volvo fh last night up by kfc in Dunstable he said he just picked up the car and there was no fuel in it .

Yet when offering to give you a tenner will pull out a wad of notes the size of a small African countries national debt :smiley:

…with most of the notes in said wad being of that zillion-zimbo-dollars-to-the-pound ■■■ paper as well, of course. :unamused:

If you’re offered a tenner of this for more than the steam off your ■■■■ - you’ve been done! :stuck_out_tongue: