Remove your helmet

[discotex]

Step 1 - Wear a belaclava and sunglasses under your helmet.

Step 2 - Wear your helmet into the shop.

Step 3 - Remove your helmet when asked leaving the belaclava. Put your glasses back on.

Step 4 - When they ask you to take the belaclava off ask them where the sign is.

Laugh your arse off at them as their brain explodes trying to comprehend what just happened.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I feel the need to fess on this one.

Maybe I need a life or something, but I have to admit to getting a bit of a chuckle from walking in, helmet on, visor up, hand over my cash-card, do all the button-pushing and, before the transaction comes up as 'accepted', simply walk away.

I did that once, recently, at a lunch-bar in Whenuapai, then sat down at one of their outside tables to eat, helmet off, of course.

Next minute this Asian chick rushes out, looks up and down the street, her eye pass right past me. Then she dives back inside, has a loud Asian discussion with the boss and races outside again. Finally, having scoured the horizon the the fleeing malefactor she looks at me and, tremulously asked, 'Did you buy food?'

'Yup.'

Frown. 'Di you use a cash car?'

'Yup.'

I'm in full leathers and look like someone you'd want to photo to sell as pinups to scare the kids away at Halloween. And on the table is my helmet.

The Asian kid has watched to many bad-arsed-biker news programmes. I could almost smell the fear.

'I...I thing, Zir, you cash car din were!'

We solved the prob. All this over $5-75. Apparently, I'd failed to press 'enter'.

It's a big cultural difference, eh? For $5-75 I'd have just thought" what the hell". But in Asian society, the loss of such a sum is, apparently, near Titanic in proportion.

I also have to fess to having fun walking into Indian-owned dairies, helmet on, visor up, and asking for a discount.

I mean, walking dressed in a suit and asking an Indian dairy-owner for a discount is tantamount to swearing at the Queen. But to do so in a helmet?

Hmmm. Perhaps, in the light of recent events, this might not be a good look in future. Just imagine.....

Rahjid Singh freaks out and smashes innocent motorbycilist over the helmet with a baseball bat. Innocent motorbyclist insists Rahjid pay for a new helmet....and asks him to work on his customer-service.

Does your Mum know you're up so late and using her computer?

[Gremlin]

gremlin... i was actually really bad for recognising people. if a local rider came in sans helmet, i wouldnt have a clue who they were. LOL.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember you identifying me when you had never met me? Thats pretty damn good going

[roy.nz]

Never had that issue always joked with the cashier about having the helmet on....

[quickbuck]

I used to leave my helmet on back in the early 90's, but now days I remove it. More as a courtesy thing.
Really people, it isn't that hard to take your helmet off. You do it at the end of every ride in any case.... unless you are the Stig.

Last weekend I filled up about 8 bikes. Each time I took my helmet off... No hassle. Even though the pumps were on prepay, the girl behind the counter unlocked the pump for me as soon as I took of my helmet. Made life a little easier for all.

[mynameis]

Step 1 - Wear a belaclava and sunglasses under your helmet.

Step 2 - Wear your helmet into the shop.

Step 3 - Remove your helmet when asked leaving the belaclava. Put your glasses back on.

Step 4 - When they ask you to take the belaclava off ask them where the sign is.

Laugh your arse off at them as their brain explodes trying to comprehend what just happened.

That's almost as hard as trying to figure out who's jumping where in your avatar.

[skidMark]

But I find people that wanna get served whilst still wearing a helmet rude.

Only takes a few secs to remove and replace.

Best way is pay cash and put in say 20 bucks....i either slip it in the night pay window or just walk past everybody else in the que... im not gunna stand there for 5 minutes while retards try and pay eftpos and doddle round...

[SARGE]

i have an issue with removing my gear when the petrol station is full of arab women in Bhurkas


double standard?

[SARGE]

We were all young once!

not me .. i was born old and grumpy

[Tink]

You bitch about price of fuel then requests for helmets to be removed. I have been told that to have eftpos put at the pumps as you say, cost would be approx $30000 per pump( I wonder who would pay for that in the end). and as it is a good percentage of customers can not swipe they cards properly even when given instructions at the counter.

We HAD eftpos at our pumps, (now only business cards can use them) no service, pre-pay came in... (and I don't take off my helmet, but I am only the passenger).I don't go to that station if I can, I go to the station where the attendant comes out and say "hello, good morning, nice day" he/she is polite, and over 30 and pumps my gas (car).

Its the age old scenario "the bad always spoil it for the good"... "the minority rule, the majority pay".

Isn't life sad, because of the idiots that have no cognitive abilities... of manners, courtesy & good behaviour.. and I am not talking about the ones that leave their helmets on, but the robbers.

[sunhuntin]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember you identifying me when you had never met me? Thats pretty damn good going

did you have a kb sticker or something? LOL. kbers with stickers and the like are easy to pick out.

[BMWST?]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember you identifying me when you had never met me? Thats pretty damn good going

gremlins are quite recognizeable with helmets off

[discotex]

That's almost as hard as trying to figure out who's jumping where in your avatar.

Maybe I should have just written "Wear a belaclava when you go in to pay and see if they complain".

I feel sorry for anyone who looks at my avatar for too long haha.

[MarkH]

Hi Fellow Kiwi Bikers,
I went in to Shell Northcross and noted first of all a pool of thick oil about 100 mm across spilled on the concrete, then I noticed there had been a big spill of Diesel which had leaked out some 400 mm from the pump.

I do two things:
1. I always remove my helmet before pumping gas.
2. I avoid service stations with the forecourt in that kind of state.

Seriously - diesel and oil spilt on the forecourt is no laughing matter, go somewhere else next time.

[Oscar]

I tell you what - when they stop the stupid fucking game with the pre-pay, where you have to wave and whistle at the moronic attendant who is too busy making coffee and the local BP is too cheap to either improve security to stop drive away thefts and/or hire some more moronic attendants to make the coffee (I understand that they make more out of coffee than petrol, but if I don't buy me fucking petrol because I can't get any fucking service and have to stand around for five minutes before the moron turns the pump on, I won't be buying petrol or coffee off of you will I?) - I'll take me fucking helmet off.