BP hate making money, love making life tough.

This morning while riding the scooter, I stopped at the BP in Carlisle street East Caulfield for fuel.

I did not see the above note until I was off the bike- but I ought to have noticed as the “other” cars queuing were steadfastly not taking the end option (this is the pump closest to the street).

Reasoning (!?) that it was not night time (in fact about 7:30am) I though that the operator would just let me fuel up, given that stealing would require me to put my helmet and gloves back on.

But no. He used the little PA to tell me it was a pre paid. Annoyed, but in a hurry I scooted in and put $10 on the counter while he served someone else.

After putting in the usual $8 to fill the scooter with 98 Premium, I went inside. I questioned why the policy was in place “that’s the spot where people drive off from the most.” He was just a poor schmuck serving customers, so I chose not to argue the idiocy of the decision.

That said, maybe BP- British Petroleum are listening:

• The locals who frequent your outlet know that the far end bowsers are pre paid and therefore a pain. They would rather queue than use them.
• Others no doubt go elsewhere as your outlet is busy at that time of day.
• People such as me will never go there again, such was the inconvenience.
• I am posting this to tell other people what goes on.
• Now, remind me how much money you lose when that bowser is not prepaid?
• How much are EFTPOS bowsers?
• Or a sign that says “your fuel will not start to flow until you present your face to the high definition camera at the booth.” Then buy a fake one.
• Read De Bono and think: We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

So ask yourselves BP- just how much money have you saved by doing this?

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Sometimes you hate to be right:

A BELGIAN World War I expert has described as a ”nightmare” the methods used by an English archaeological firm to exhume the bodies of about 300 Australian and British soldiers left for 90 years in a mass grave in France.

This follows my post back in May when I asked if it was morally correct to exhume these men after so many years. At the time I noted that it was technically possible, but perhaps morally hazy. Now it seems its a technical issue as well:

Johan Vandewalle’s chief anxiety is that the methods used to excavate – going deep into the centre of graves instead of working meticulously layer by layer – means there is no guarantee that every set of remains can be attributed to one individual and that they may be jumbled.

I take no satisfaction in being correct about this. We should never have desecrated these mass graves.

The Age- Fears for bodies of the fallen Fromelles diggers