Pisses me off a treat. You just don’t want the inconvenience of taking off a fitted lid. No matter what race colour creed you are or the person behind the desk is. It’s a major inconvenience and I just go elsewhere. I was filling up with a Barrister once, he went bloody nuts. So it’s not a legal requirement.
Problem is the the pumps are controlled by the till operators so they can stop it working. Which they did with me.
The ones i used yesterday you'd to select pay at the pump or cashier,maybe we should all protest like the yellow vests brigade
You all look big and scary to non bike riders We know getting your helmet off is an inconvenience as riders but non bike riders haven’t a clue All they want to see is a kind face that’s not going to ride off without paying or come into the kiosk like a power ranger Personally I love chatting to any biker
We still have control of pay at pump when dispensing fuel we have a duty to keep you safe should you over fuel or any other incident occurs
It’s not a rule as such but we can ask for you to take off your helmet as we have to check your old enough for fuel plus we have Think 25 Now I’m an oldie in the retail trade but you have youngsters who maybe aren’t as experienced or you have ladies in the kiosk and they can be intimidated by bikers/helmets etc so these people will ask It’s unsafe for some areas especially if they have been targets in the past One garage recently had a fight on the forecourt with a stabbing I believe so you can kinda see where the cashiers are coming from Unfortunately the nice kind lovely rider ( no one knows that you are ) will get asked if they can remove their helmets because of the minority
Not so long back they wouldn't let me fill up till I got off the bike and it was on the side stand with me stood next to it.
I would have thought getting off your bike was only sensible. If you are on it and it sparks up you are doomed. Plus if you drop it getting off in a hurry....well.....
I have just registered a complaint through Tesco. Have realised it’s a Tesco Express and all the staff are all Tesco employees not Esso. I did mention what would would happen if it was a burka, as expected he had no comment but did have a little chuckle. This complaint will be sent to the local management. Not expecting any action or change of policy though. If I had been wearing Adidas trainers, Adidas running bottoms and a hoody over my helmet I guess they would have called the police.
How often does this happen though, really, that a helmeted biker runs in and robs a service station? Possibly a bit in London and a coupe, of other major cities...but Hereford?! Or Richmond?! Seeing someone’s face before riding off wont help find them more than having the plate would It’s just fear of the 0.5% TAKING OVER THE OTHER 99.5% OF POpulation Oops caps lock
I have asked several tesco's for copies of their 'policy' in written form. It would seem this is too much & they decline further information. When you are armed with the knowledge a 'polite policy' is literally a verbal agreement the councils & police federations have cunningly decided. That companies should playout on the public to assume (unknowlingly) that it is a law because a sign & symbol have been designed & stuck on a wall or door. When it is not a law but a unwritten rule that is applied when you enter the property of said establishment. You should not get irrate but demand the policy in writting how you have entered into an agreement to take off said helmet. Which they might state its because this other tesco's was robbed. Type of utter bullshit. It's about you succumbing to the totalitarian state the government & secret services want enacted. Just like we are currently finding out has been happening,...illegally I might point out with facial recognition! And I know someone fairly high up in a company who's supplied councils across the country with this tech for around a decade. I bet that data-base is not kept within the remit of any government charter. Also a balaclava aka windstopper is not an illegal item to wear. I also mostly wear an open face helmet when these interactions have taken place. The most they can do is refuse you the services they deliver. And then ask you politely to leave the premise aka tresspass law. If you are paying at a pump I wouldn't even engage with the plebs on the tannoy but keep moving around the pumps until the garage forecourt is jammed. And regarding tresspassing; you have to be asked three times to leave & given a reason before physically escorted from a property without aggression.
Sorry about the changes but I'm slightly dyslexic so need to keep re-reading my terrible prose and grammatical mistakes. Gawd I've even done it to this one'
@Carr01 @El Toro interesting - I'd never considered that being Asian might be a factor. Now that I think about it, speaking as an Asian chap, I do get this sudden urge to ask people to remove their helmet any time I see one! Maybe it's genetic? I bet you any money you like the CEO of the supermarket who claimed that helmet removal was for health and safety reasons in this case http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/myth-bus...-and-get-off-motorcycle-whilst-refuelling.htm was Asian. Damn those Asians coming over here and asking us to remove our helmets. OR The fact that the shop assistant was Asian was not a relevant factor.
The ones who complain about me were blonde women dubcat, those that dye their hair! Not real blondes who'd ride me senseless because I own a ducati1111
Yeh, next they will ask us not to wear a helmet on the road so the cameras can get out face recognition
Haha - can you introduce me to some of these blonde friends of yours please? Also - if you look at my posts you will see the majority are edited. For same reason as you! It's been gradually getting worse though - notice it in emails at work all the time. I read them back later and cringe at all the mistakes. Wonder what it is. Dyslexia isn't something you can develop over time is it?
