Remove your helmet

**Swoop** · 1st July 2009, 14:42

Originally Posted by mynameis

Get a room you two.

How will they pay for it? At the counter, or in the location where the "pumping" of fluids will be happening?

Originally Posted by bogan

what about the person serving you though? what do they want/deserve?

Clearasil?

**RT527** · 1st July 2009, 14:48

Originally Posted by SixPackBack

Oh noes not the saftey nazi's.............yes I sit on my bike and fill up and have done so for close to twenty years.

Aha I didnt tell you not to I only said I find it stoopid, but then that comes from having watched someone catch fire at the pumps whilest sitting astride his bike ....hehe he was so happy that I was there and happened to be in the fire truck filling it up with diesel at the time.....I just picked up one of the windscreen washing buckets with soap and water in it and dumped it in his lap problem over Attendant at the counter had already hit the stop on the pumps so all was good...hehe says a lot for leathers not a mark on him. But hey maybe he was just unlucky that day and your 20 yrs you've been doing it you been lucky, Hell Im not perfect Ive done some stoopid things in my life when I`ve been told not too , Wished I`d listened now.

**MarkH** · 1st July 2009, 15:09

Originally Posted by SixPackBack

Okay. I can see both points of the argument and have a couple of points I would also make:
[LIST][*]I now ask attendants if they mind the helmet staying on. This is done with the visor up, a grin and either cash or card in hand. I do this at diaries and liqourshops as well, but stand in the door and wave. All of the local businesses I frequent know me and are more than happy to sell me their product while I have my helmet on.
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My comments?
You sound like a very considerate person! If you don't want to take your helmet off and the attendant tells you they don't mind, it is really hard to see where any problem might exist.

Originally Posted by SixPackBack

Oh noes not the saftey nazi's.............yes I sit on my bike and fill up and have done so for close to twenty years.

Careful - you are going to make people jealous that you have enough coordination to fill your bike and not spill petrol and set yourself on fire.

(Many of the rules are their for the thickest of the thick - to protect them from their stupid selves)

**SixPackBack** · 1st July 2009, 15:12

I strongly suspect the stations do not like individuls sitting on their bike while filling up because of the risk of runners.....it would be easy!

**Ixion** · 1st July 2009, 15:57

Originally Posted by vifferman

.. "It's all very well me not taking my helmet off because the chap serving me desn't seem to mind, but does he?" I always get the same guy serving me at the place I go to, so I thought I'd better ask. ..

Well, a fine mess you got me into, Stanley. I had to get petrol this afternoon so , thinks me, I'll follow Mr Vifferman's example, and ask the attendant what he thinks

So, I fill up, but unlike usual, I leave all my gear on (right pain with glubs I must say)

Rock into the shop bit, still with all the gear on, and ask "Hey, I'm trying to find out what you like. Should I get my gear off?".

Whereupon the young lady behind the counter shrieked and called the manager and now I can't go back to the servo again.

A fine mess for a sweet innocent naive old man like me, and I blame you. Very bad advice there.

**Stormer** · 1st July 2009, 17:26

If I have to remove my lid, then the poor people lined up behind me at the pump have to wait until I put in my radar detector earpiece, put on my helmet, buckle up my helmet, get on the bike, plug in the radar earpiece jack, put on my gloves, turn the key and let the bike go through the start sequence, start the bike, select 1st gear, and then finally ride off.
HA!!

**steve_t** · 1st July 2009, 17:59

Originally Posted by Ixion

... ask "Hey, I'm trying to find out what you like. Should I get my gear off?".

Whereupon the young lady behind the counter shrieked and called the manager and now I can't go back to the servo again.

She was probably a bit scared about the prospect of seeing you naked

Or maybe misheard what you said as "Hey, give me all your money, dyke! Or I'll blow your head off"

**bogan** · 1st July 2009, 17:59

Originally Posted by Stormer

If I have to remove my lid, then the poor people lined up behind me at the pump have to wait until I put in my radar detector earpiece, put on my helmet, buckle up my helmet, get on the bike, plug in the radar earpiece jack, put on my gloves, turn the key and let the bike go through the start sequence, start the bike, select 1st gear, and then finally ride off.
HA!!

thats a very good point actually

**short-circuit** · 1st July 2009, 18:14

Originally Posted by bogan

thats a very good point actually

If you weren't too lazy to actually read the whole thread before posting you'd have seen this point's been made multiple times already.

**scumdog** · 1st July 2009, 18:18

Originally Posted by short-circuit

If you weren't too lazy to actually read the whole thread before posting you'd have seen this point's been made multiple times already.

Oh man ,ya musta failed 'TACT 101'...

**bogan** · 1st July 2009, 18:19

Originally Posted by short-circuit

If you weren't too lazy to actually read the whole thread before posting you'd have seen this point's been made multiple times already.

its 22 pages long, fuck that

**short-circuit** · 1st July 2009, 18:24

Originally Posted by scumdog

Oh man ,ya musta failed 'TACT 101'...

A bit hypocritical to preach to others about laziness and helmet removing etiquette when you are both a noob and too lazy to exercise proper netiquette.

**bogan** · 1st July 2009, 18:33

Originally Posted by short-circuit

A bit hypocritical to preach to others about laziness and helmet removing etiquette when you are both a noob and too lazy to exercise proper netiquette.

I don't think I ever mentioned laziness coming into it, its a courtesy thing. Though ill admit I'm to lazy now to go back an check whether or not I did, I'm sure someone with the proper netiquette can do that if they feel the need. And in any case, are we actually expected to read the whole thread before posting? Or maybe I should have prefaced my post with a tldr so it could be ignored by all the l33ts round here?

**idleidolidyll** · 1st July 2009, 18:47

I agree with the gas bloke; always take your helmet off when you stop for gas. It's a dangerous job and if thieves steal gas the staff get shit.

HOWEVER: never prepay! If you have your helmet off and they won't release the pump, they are ignorant tossers and you should tell them that and say you're taking your business to a friendly gas station.