Alfresco

My kids are used to it.

paulry

Queues form on the right sides of petrol pumps while the left sides remain vacant

eddie007

It's called the "right" side for a reason you know...

The other side is just plain wrong!

rasen78

Not unique to Oz One of my bugbears, people refusing to stretch the petrol pump

cresta57

You get chucked out of the pub for asking for a pint of water

paulry

...except for when the right side is the wrong side leaving the left side as the real right side

I've noticed it more in Aus. The preference for everyone everywhere (assuming their petrol tank filler is on the left) is to use the right, but to queue on the right leaving the left side completely vacant is just odd. Herd mentality perhaps?

carolinephillips

I've tried stretching the hose and it is just too awkward for me- I'm not tall and I'd have to get it over the roof of my suv.

paulry

....the baskets are dirty at every supermarket.

Jan4kids

You include words in your Facebook status that your U.K friends don't understand..............todays word/verb was 'Whipper - snip'

Jan4kids

I'd go on to say that the dry goods shelves are dirty too. When I worked for Sainsburys we cleaned a section in each aisle every week...........here nothing of the sort happens.

BadgeIsBack

I own cars where the filler is on different sides - and so you'll see me hesitate on some days...'which car am I in'. I did wonder one day whether certain manufacturers or models tended to frequent certain sides and even made it my business to take note.

Slow day, obviously!

I don't like taking the line over the top, it makes you look like an amateur if it doesn't reach. Who here is one of the cool brigade: leans back against the car, facing the gauge, single wrist around nozzle at hip....and who bends down over the cap, head over shoulders?

carolinephillips

I need both hands to get the petrol to come out, one to hold and one to squeeze...or both sometimes.

moneypenny20

I use either side, have no problem. The one's who piss me off are the Getz/Jazz lot who don't seem to understand their car is so fricking small they could use either one with no issues and get in my way. Actually it doesn't piss me off, it just irritates slightly and makes me have negative and derogatory thoughts about them.

itigo

...you spend 20 minutes trying to get a Huntsman out of the car before you go shopping and realising the usual plastic cup just isn't going to cut it!

I think the 4 of us woke up the whole neighbourhood yesterday morning. The other half shouting as he failed to direct the spider out of the boot lip and it ran inside the car, the kids screaming full pelt as they tried to get out of the car, and me laughing........ A tupperware container secured him in the end and he now roams free again.........

Guess it's going to happen more now as we park under a tree....

cresta57

I don't do either, I use the filler cap to jam the pump open then use the squeegee to do my windscreen & headlamps while the tank fills.

BTW If you glance down at the fuel gauge icon whichever side the hose is on denotes which side your filler cap is. See below: