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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What's with the getting out of the car?
It's been explained to me that the reason everyone has to get out of the car and go and stand far away whilst it's being refuelled is...wait for it........
to prevent them from blowing themselves up or setting themselves on fire!
Can this possibly be true? Or is there another reason?
Sometimes the people from the car have to wait hundreds of metres away and, in the middle of winter, with ice and snow everywhere, this can be most inconvenient.
What's the reason cars have to abandoned at service stations when they're being juiced up?
And does this happen in any other country in the world?
It doesn't happen in Zhuhai. But people are not allowed to refuel themselves, I've only seen serviced gas stations.
That being said. I would not be surprised that when all the tards driving drunk are at the gas station, they would be likely to have a cigarette while refilling, and we know they just throw lit buds on the ground.
People Just Can't Follow Simple Rules. Therefore, every single thing you really need to be done needs to be taken to extreme measures.
For example, onboard the high speed trains all over the country, you can regularly hear a warning saying that "Smoking on the train is forbidden because (from memory) ashes could reach the engines and cause major failure, derailment and the end of the world and you would bear responsibility".
Well, of course this is complete fantasy, but they need to pile up that amount of bullshit because not smoking wouldn't happen out of simple respect and self awareness.
Scandinavian:
Yup. It's similar to Chinese parenting. "If you don't brush your teeth your grandmother will die" or whatever BS can be said
Yeah, it sounds like it's to prevent people from smoking and dropping cigarettes on the ground. Even if they have sings that say "No smoking", people will just ignore them (like the signs everywhere else). Even if they warn about the dangers of lighting up a cigarette, smoking, and/or dropping cigarettes on the ground, most Chinese people won't care. By making people get out, at least the people working at the gas stations can make sure they don't do anything (particularly) stupid.
Never come across this in my two years of driving in Guangzhou, Zhongshan, Zhuhai and other parts of Guangdong. I like the fat that there is pump service as in the UK you have to get out of the car and fill it yourself. The only downside is when there are only 1 or 2 staff manning multiple pumps. But then the pumps here can be set to dispense a set amount o fuel so they are semi-automated.
Haven't come across this in the North but it would not surprise me if it happened .
However I can picture the scene 3 or 4 people standing together smoking and using a phone while the driver uses a lighter to see how much fuel is in the tank
Scandinavian:
see there is the thing, the phone thing doesn't really happen (ref: Mythbusters)
I dunno Royce... Perhaps its a xingjiang thing..... Perhaps a more recent development as well. Ive spent years driving in ...jeeze.... 10 provinces north to south of China and ive never been asked to get out of my car while filling up. Nor have I seen a chinese asked... Id guess its a " we dont want people in xingjiang near anything that can blow " kinda deal.
No, in my Fukang people stay in the car at the Gas stop.
Fukang is a bit different than any other city in Xinjiang.
Years ago, we had comet landing in the area, so Fukangars all stay inside their vehicle for security reasons
Well, bugger me. It might just be a Xinjiang thing. I‘d ask my wife but she’s engaged in conversation with her friend and I'm not much hope of getting a word in. I'll ask her later on when I get a chance.
I didn't ever notice it in Qingdao because I was never near a petrol station.
But it definitely happens out here.
The driver is allowed to hang by the car but passengers are herded far away, no exceptions.
icnif77:
Why your letterssuddenly became so big? Did you spill (warm) beer on your keyboard! O2
royceH:
Yeah it's a funny thing. It happens sometimes and I don't know why.
When it does, I usually knock off and go for a warmy.
Bugger.
Actually. The Road Traffic Safety Laws has a law that parking within 30 meters from a gas station is not allowed. Strong contrast to e.g. the western world, where gas stations is almost a place you hang out (if not for hours then for the duration of a toilet stop and a cup of coffee)
If it's a XJ thing (or anywhere else, for that matter), then perhaps it's to stop drivers from filling up lots of containers in the back of the car. Petrol isn't going to go off, so think of the profits that can be made by selling low when the service stations run out... (or a myriad of other reasons).
(FTR, back home, there's rarely full service, cos if they put in 95, when you asked for 98, they get to sue you! That, and it's another person they don't need to hire!!))