Service station confrontation

[Coyote]

Hey, RG's are great bikes.

Of course. I love mine

Just mine is a bit worse for wear: http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh....php?p=1062642

[Colapop]

to mr col:
my site manager has given us permission to send customers away. hes done it a few times. biggest was when a coworker died at the same time as last years gang war, and we had people telling us hed been shot by one gang or another.
ive only told one to piss off [politely!], when he came over abusing me about the price of our car lpg. told him to go to xxxxx and not come back. funny thing is... hes been back a few times since. i ignore him now. i thought he was gonna clock me one that day.

There are situations where it is ok tell customers where to go. BUT it must be done where possible with manners and tact. Sometimes that aint possible and then your boss must back you 100%.
Of course if someone is just being a prick (either customer or staff) then - see ya!

Incidentally I always move my bike away from the pumps after I fill up. I usually do it when I'm filling my car/s too, when I can.

[Tim 39]

hehe i had a run in with a woman early last year at the pumps she had stopped at the first pump not gone into the 2nd which was empty all the others were full she filled up and then got a child out of the car and walked past me to go pay, i said to her would you mind moving so i can fill up she just looked blankly at me and carried on so i backed out of the servo (i was in a Prado) and went around and backed up to the front of her car and stopped about 25mm away from her bumper and proceded to fill up she came out ranting and raving at me so i ignored her and went to pay she got in her car after abusing my 14 yo twin sons (much to their delight) and backed up then from about 2 meters away rammed the back of my 4x4 as i was paying i said to the guy at the till "look at that" he was gobsmacked i went out to get her to stop when one of my boys jumped out with a hockey stick and told her to fuck off and threatened to smash her windscreen so she backed out and fucked off with the front bumper pushed in by my towbar no damage to mine but lots to hers, i laughed at her as she drove of screaming at me.........thank christ im not married to her

thats awesome!!!! she obviously prefers pissing others off to people pissing her off

[Swoop]

Don't get me wrong, but reading this thread, it seems like some of you go out of your way to be dicks to the cagers.

Only when they are disrespectful of others, be that parked OR driving along.

I am a dick.
However cagers are pussies or, occasionally, assholes.
(you all know how the storyline goes from here...) America...FUCK YEAH!

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

Hell yeah, it's a beautiful thing

I meant it was low that he should even say that. I know the RG is shit, that's why I'm getting a new bike. But it still had nothing to do with the event. He was being a prick

Hey at least it is a bike - no doubt you love riding otherwise you wouldn't have one. Good on you for saving hard and buying a bike.

I used to have a Yamaha XJ750, all I could afford at the time - after a 13 year break from bikes. I promised myself a newer more powerful bike later. Within six months I bought a BMW K100 RS - I stopped smoking and that money paid for the bike!

Ignore arseholes like that one - why wasn't he on his bike then instead of the cage!!

[ZeroIndex]

Breakaway, you've got to understand, a well-balanced biker has a chip on both shoulders.......

I have to fully agree with that

[ZeroIndex]

i used earplugs for a while but i get on and off the bike so much.....gas stops etc....(this is when on open road around town it was a blimin joke)

i just could never get the blimin things in right somebody taught me how..pull on my ear etc but eventually i just gave up with them.

when i get the vfr sorted i'm gunna need them though the yoshimura is gunna be bloodey loud

I find that even with an aftermarket exhaust (Scorpion pipe) and 14,000RPM to play with between 1st and 6th gear, the biggest reason to want to use earplugs is not the exhaust noise, but rather wind noise... that's the big problem with open road usage... wind noise is what damages your ears, not so much with the exhaust (unless it was my Kinetic GF170

[Coyote]

Hey at least it is a bike - no doubt you love riding otherwise you wouldn't have one. Good on you for saving hard and buying a bike.

I used to have a Yamaha XJ750, all I could afford at the time - after a 13 year break from bikes. I promised myself a newer more powerful bike later. Within six months I bought a BMW K100 RS - I stopped smoking and that money paid for the bike!

Ignore arseholes like that one - why wasn't he on his bike then instead of the cage!!

Saving? Ha! I got a bank loan. I knew the RG was going to die sooner of later and sure enough it seizes a week before I get the new bike so now I'm forced to use pedal power and get to school/work late

I don't smoke, my only addiction is the bikes. Can't really give them up to pay for the bikes

[vifferman]

I haven't had problems with leaving my bike at the pump; maybe it's because it's on the centrestand? So it looks properly parked, and not easy to move?
OTOH, I *have* moved my bike if there's someone waiting. The weekend before last I did just that - the station was one with only room for one vehicle each side of the pump. When I came out, there was a Discovery behind the bike, and the female driver looked a bit grumpy, so I moved the bike forward before starting it. Thinking about it now, she probably expected me to move it, or maybe because the vifferbabe was standing by it, she expected her to? And I'm sure that if I was in my car it wouldn't have been a problem, but who knows?

I did have a problem with a RoadRager once (posted on here a few years back). I was pulling into the service station, and he cut me off (I had right of way). Then I went in, and he was doing this elaborate manouevre to pull up to the pump backwards (filler on wrong side?), so I pulled up to the pump, toook the cap off, and started filling up. He starts to pull in, suddenly realises he's been gazumped, and goes WTF?!? Then gets out and starts abusing me. "Hey! Didn't you see I was pulling in? I was going to use that pump, yah egg! Hey! Dickhead!!" etc. etc.
Even though I was still pissed off, I just ignored him, filled the bike up (no particular hurry), went and paid, then rode off. I hadn't taken my helmet off, so he had no idea whether I was some big, mean, ugly bastid (in fact, just the last bit), and my lack of response was probably not what he expected.
As for the "pulling across the car at the front after lanesplitting" thing - I often do that, but twice I've had people start to move before the light's gone green, which is a worry. I can understand their annoyance, but if they thought further than their ego, they'd realise I'm not holding them up at all; I'm off up the road before they've rolled over the line.

[sunhuntin]

I was having a crap day at work once, and this bitch just pushed my buttons, so I told her to get fucked, thought I'd be fired (I hated the job anyway), so told my supervisor that I wanted to quit, she rang the big boss and he told me I'd get a pay raise to stay! Go figure!

hell... maybe i need to try that!!

col.... yeh. sometimes it just gets too much and ya lose it. specially hearing every single customer saying the same thing.

[MisterD]

You all should really see the look on most cagers' faces when you hang the hose up and then get out a bottle of 2-stroke oil and start measuring and pouring.....ah the joys of premixing

[Deviant Esq]

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've never come across an irate cager when I'm filling my bike. Maybe there's less of them in the south island? A couple of times I've come back out to the bike having paid, and there's a cager waiting patiently for me to shift. I've given them a smile and pushed the bike out of the way before kitting up, and they've mostly smiled back or given a wave of thanks. Maybe I look like a frightened newbie and they feel sorry for me? Or maybe it's my bike that makes them feel sorry?

If ever I come across a cager who is polite I try my best to let them know I appreciate it. Mostly on the open road when they've moved to the left to give me room to get past them, I'll hold my left hand out in a wave of thanks. I definitely appreciate it when they do that, my bike needs all the help it can get when overtaking!

I went to the front of a queue of cars turning to the right and I was on the front left of the car at the start of the queue, the aim being to dart in front of him as soon as the light went green. Only this guy reacted as I did. I got in his way, he stopped, blasted the horn, and I sped off out of the way.

When I'm turning right is one of the (few) times I'm a bit less likely to filter to the front. But if there's a big queue and I really can't be bothered sitting through three sets of lights, I'll filter to the front. But if the car at the front of the queue is fairly well forward, I'll stop just behind them on the left, and when the light goes green just try to go at the same speed as them, and move in behind them as we go around the corner. If the car at the front is back a bit though I'll filter in front of them so they don't get a bright idea and try to drag me off. Gotta be careful of them 4x4s though, often an aggressive driver behind the wheel!

[Patrick]

Damn you to...............just having a few woodies myself..............

DOH... or is my mind in the gutter again?????

[sunhuntin]

I was having a crap day at work once, and this bitch just pushed my buttons, so I told her to get fucked, thought I'd be fired (I hated the job anyway), so told my supervisor that I wanted to quit, she rang the big boss and he told me I'd get a pay raise to stay! Go figure!

mrs kd.... just got off the phone with the operations manager; seems the cow i work with has stuffed her chances of my bosses finding in her favour. her sundays will likely be removed. YAY. age and experience wins again.
the OM said hes happy to keep me on sundays, and since he never hears from me, i seem the better out of the two of us.

the nails in her coffin? bitching to both the OM, the owner and any other staff who would listen. silence is golden....

[Trudes]

mrs kd.... just got off the phone with the operations manager; seems the cow i work with has stuffed her chances of my bosses finding in her favour. her sundays will likely be removed. YAY. age and experience wins again.
the OM said hes happy to keep me on sundays, and since he never hears from me, i seem the better out of the two of us.

the nails in her coffin? bitching to both the OM, the owner and any other staff who would listen. silence is golden....

haha, good stuff!! So no more listening to her bitching and moaning about poor old gents who can't get out of their cars and her having to move her arse to help eh! Nice work!