During one of the petrol shortages, before people generally had diesel cars and petrol and diesel were served from different pumps, there was a queue way back up the road from the petrol pumps at a local garage, so I drove my van in through the exit and straight up to the diesel pump to fill up.


I went in to pay and the guy who owned the filling station said to me that I was very brave and was risking a lynching. He said the people in the petrol cars were looking at me with hatred in their eyes and although I had done nothing wrong the people who had been in paying had all said I should have queued up with the petrol car drivers to get to the unused diesel pump.


Sometimes you feel like you could not make it up.


Andy Betteridge

During one of the petrol shortages, before people generally had diesel cars and petrol and diesel were served from different pumps, there was a queue way back up the road from the petrol pumps at a local garage, so I drove my van in through the exit and straight up to the diesel pump to fill up.


I went in to pay and the guy who owned the filling station said to me that I was very brave and was risking a lynching. He said the people in the petrol cars were looking at me with hatred in their eyes and although I had done nothing wrong the people who had been in paying had all said I should have queued up with the petrol car drivers to get to the unused diesel pump.


Sometimes you feel like you could not make it up.


Andy Betteridge