Called in at the BP Garage there the other night and I might as well have been going into a nightclub.
It’s always nice for these places to provide some ambient background music but the staff had got the volume wound up to about 80 or 90 decibels. Not exactly conducive to quietly brousing the shelves.
The cashier may have said, “Please.” They may even have said, “Thankyou.” It matters not, because I wouldn’t have bloody heard them anyway.
Yet another reason NOT to stop there in future.
At the BP garage at Oxford services you can save £2 YES £2 when you fill up over 200 Litres of Diesel
I tell you if i were an owner driver,or ran a small haulage business i would go out my way for such a saving 
I try and avoid the main building there ,as its full of tossers drinking latte’s tinkling on the laptop
bikemonkey:
I try and avoid the main building there ,as its full of [zb] drinking latte’s tinkling on the laptop
is it a wifi internet access point.
stoped at oxford services last week on the way home and found the same
plus the staff were not very helpful or polite, treat you as some kind of kid who knows nothing, as for the manager think he was just out of nappies 
will leave it there rant over
Krankee:
The cashier may have said, “Please.” They may even have said, “Thankyou.” It matters not, because I wouldn’t have bloody heard them anyway..
from my experiances there, if they could hear you they wouldn’t have understood you
As a contrast, I stopped at Cambridge services last week in a 7.5 tonner. Discovered that the keys on the ring didn’t include one for the fuel cap (“there were a load of useless keys on the ring, so I took them off” said the bloke when I rang him 
) , so I explained the situation to the staff there, and told them not to worry if their CCTV showed a bloke breaking into the fuel tank of the heap on pump 8.
Not only did they lend me a screwdiver to break the plastic shroud off the fuel cap, they gave me a plaster (and two spares) after I stabbed myself in the finger with said screwdriver 
Is it my imagination, or are service places on A-roads more likely to contain sensible human beings than the ones on Motorways?
I have never been impressed with Oxford services as a car driver - even worse now I am a trucker. Seems to me to be designed by idiots for idiots so I use Cherwell Valley instead, which is not that far !!!
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Spitfire:
Is it my imagination, or are service places on A-roads more likely to contain sensible human beings than the ones on Motorways?
It seems they are more willing to help out a would be thief !!!1…
Look at it from the point of view of someone who has had their truck stolen!!.
Krankee:
It’s always nice for these places to provide some ambient background music but the staff had got the volume wound up to about 80 or 90 decibels. Not exactly conducive to quietly brousing the shelves.
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All depends what the music was 
if it was George Thorogood “Bad to the bone” i would have stayed and spent loads of money if it was the Darkness i would have left straight away afetr paying, if it was Classical i would have said “is that Tchaikovskys 85th with Kalmingerereara conducting?” havent got a clue but it would have been nice to see their reaction. :):):):):)…