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Aaaaaw i was looking forward to reading that as well :(
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oldman,
maybe the software read your age backwards (the german petrol gauge thingy in halmer's thread) and marked you down as a teenager - i.e. 16 and not your real age of 61 .
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guess you could be right there .
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Clevage? Two quid you say?
What services was this?
Purely out of interest you understand.
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The are now very attractive girls of East European appearance pulling this scam at Heathrow airport.
They stand in the queue to pay the parking ticket which is always about 5 deep and then say to the the guy (always a guy) in front, something like 'damn I'm 50P short couldn't lend me 50p could you. If he obliges when they guy is outing his money in its 'oh no left X in terminal and they move off'. Performable then repeated once the blokes cleared off.
Also veering off topic but I hope the mods alway it as its an important message. 13/14 year old school girls in school uniform having been approaching strangers in/around Guildford train station and saying 'please mister I'm 20o short on my train fare home'. The dangers of this are obvious and I have informed the school directly. If they're doing it in Guildford you can bet they're doing it in Derby just a warning if you've a daughter at such an age.
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The most disgusting Motorway Service scam that catches me out everytime is Burger King charging a pound more for a bacon double cheeseburger meal than the Regent Street outlet. I guess it must be down to the high rent they pay for that prime location waste-marsh-bogland in the middle of absolutely nowhere.
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Have you tried undoing a couple of buttons on your shirt and leaning into some of the big rigs and saying "scuse me mister have you got a quid for a bacon double cheese burger?
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"sucky sucky, ten dollar" works better for me
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BBD,
You are completely correct the lease costs for a motorway service station are way higher than prime retail sites in central London.
It starts with a huge premium to be granted the 20 year lease to develope and open a service ststaion followed by eye watering annual lease costs.
Who is the lessor?
Our good friend Gordon Brown.
Following complaints the OFT investigated in 2000 and reported the high prices at service stations were due to high costs and no one was making 'excessive' profits.
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I won't bother asking which service station it was then. !! Regards Peter
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SO, how do you get your age into your profile please??
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SO, how do you get your age into your profile please??
Dalglish's messsage had a smiley, implying he was joking.
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Dalglish's messsage had a smiley, implying he was joking
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aaw - dd has spoilt it now!
anyway, you really can find the original by googling "car park wallet scam". sorry cannot give a link as the story is definitely too "over18" risque for hj's site.
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googling "car park wallet scam" doesn't work. However, googling "car park" wallet scam does.
For some strange reason though, I can still see the hidden thread ;o)
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googling "car park wallet scam" doesn't work.
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do it without the quotation marks, and the 2nd link humourarchives is the same as the one found with "car park" in quotes.
For some strange reason though, I can still see the hidden thread ;o)
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proves you are over 18. ;-)
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For some strange reason though, I can still see the hidden thread ;o)
Funny, so can I Dave.
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BBD, You are completely correct the lease costs for a motorway service station are way higher than prime retail sites in central London. It starts with a huge premium to be granted the 20 year lease to develope and open a service ststaion followed by eye watering annual lease costs. Who is the lessor? Our good friend Gordon Brown. Following complaints the OFT investigated in 2000 and reported the high prices at service stations were due to high costs and no one was making 'excessive' profits.
McDonalds cope though. Prices are the same
Anyway, in response to OP: very old scam encountered elsewhere in this country and abroad with countless variations on the theme as discussed above
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On the M1 once with the family. Ordered a meal in the little chef and ordered a side order of onion rings for 2.75.
THREE onion rings turned up in a dish. - £2.75!
I told them to take it away as I wasnt paying for it.
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Someone I know who used to work at a motorway service station told me that they have a 30% mark up on all food sold. Average price for a diet cola drink (you know the brand) is around a £1, hence why I recently paid £1.30 at one of the A34 services for the same drink.
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A book that detailed stuff like supermarkets with cheap cafés and other good stuff close to motorway exits and directions to get to them would seem a fair idea.
And I will only require 10% of the profits for providing the idea.
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How much do I get for providing the link then?
www.5minutesaway.co.uk/
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Cool. Just goes to show original ideas are few and far between.
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The way this thread went just goes to show who the real highway robbers are.
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Ah. Slight problem they are selling the entries to be listed as 5 minutes away (as you would expect) and some of the junctions are pretty sparsely covered.
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And of course we all have mobile internet access in the car when you are feeling peckish or thirsty approaching the next motorway exit?
No? Oh thats useful then.
It needs to be a book, or better still a sat nav POI databse.
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the book is called "off the motorway" by travel publishing ltd
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I am appalled to read of people drinking diet pepsi at motorway service stations.
Whatever happened to the bottle of champers and smoked salmon sandwiches in the police only motorway security laybys?
You guys got no goddam class is all.
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BBD, You are completely correct the lease costs for a motorway service station are way higher than prime retail sites in central London. It starts with a huge premium to be granted the 20 year lease to develope and open a service ststaion followed by eye watering annual lease costs. Who is the lessor? Our good friend Gordon Brown. Following complaints the OFT investigated in 2000 and reported the high prices at service stations were due to high costs and no one was making 'excessive' profits.
It is usually the case the outlet, on top of rent, pays a small percentage of turnover to the site owner. This is common practice at railway stations, which is why you pay more that High St/retail parks.
But you'll still get a coffee from a McDonalds at a service area cheaper than a Costa latter, which tends to be £3.25-3.40. That IS a rip-off..
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The most disgusting Motorway Service scam that catches me out everytime is Burger King charging a pound more for a bacon double cheeseburger meal than the Regent Street outlet. I guess it must be down to the high rent they pay for that prime location waste-marsh-bogland in the middle of absolutely nowhere.
Not a "scam" after all then? Sounds as if Burger King are merely pricing their wares according to the running costs of the particular outlet. You can't get fairer than that.
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"Sounds as if Burger King are merely pricing their wares according to the running costs of the particular outlet."
Nonsense man, or the Regent Street outlet would be charging ten times as much as one in Eccles.
SCAM!
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I agree 100% BBD! McDs charge the same where ever you are, I prefer McDs anyway, sometimes a life saver at Cullumpton.
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Cheers Cheddar! Yeah McD Happy Meals have fantastic toys at the moment too.
In any case, whether it?s the mark-up on the food or the outrageous rent for land that otherwise only aligators and pelicans could inhabit, it?s a scam inflicted on the hungry motorist.
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Cheers Cheddar! Yeah McD Happy Meals have fantastic toys at the moment too.
And you struck me as someone who would have a big appetite Dave ;-)
Go Large!
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One of the benefits of TomTom - I have databases of all the supermarkets (in just the same way as you can get speed camera databases) so very rarely use motorway service stations!
BTW there is even a signed service station on the M1 near Borobridge (or is it A1 up there) which is a Morrisons supermarket!
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This thread (and TVM's interst in knowing exactly where it happens) reminds me of something which a woman posted to another Forum I frequent. The text is from an email which is apparently doing the rounds:
Please pass this on to any woman you know who use ASDA...
A new scam is being pulled on women mainly in broad daylight in ASDA car parks.
What happens is that when the intended victim goes back to her car to put her shopping in the boot, an almost NUDE, good looking, tanned, muscled young man comes up to her car and pretends to wash the windscreen.
While he is doing this, another 2 young, handsome athletic men open the back doors of the car, jump in and insist the woman drive off with them to some lonely spot, where 2 have their wicked way with her and the other steals her handbag.
They are very good at this ...
They got me three times Friday and five times Saturday.
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PS The sender added:
I couldn't find them on Sunday :
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PS The sender added: I couldn't find them on Sunday :
was one of them carrying a half eaten bacon double cheese burger or a mcdonalds toy?
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>> PS The sender added: >> >> I couldn't find them on Sunday : was one of them carrying a half eaten bacon double cheese burger or a mcdonalds toy?
The poster's interest seemed to be more focused on something else that was being carried ...
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No
surely not a Kentucky Fried family bucket?
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That is really the gist of DrS's hidden thread that Dalglish refered to above and that is actually not quite as hidden as it could be.
Mods: I have mentioned before how hidden posts or parts thereof can infact be seen.
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hidden posts or parts thereof can infact be seen
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how many time do i have to say this? for the last time: you can only see them if you are over 18! ;-)
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Interesting thread this.
Without being derogatory, or personal.. I have to ask, l'escargot what field of work are you in? Looking through recent threads, your answers and comments are always interesting and kind of logical, but very.. how can I put this... right-wing? Your sympathies seem firmly with big business. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just rare these days!
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> surely not a Kentucky Fried family bucket?
As Jack Dee once said, "what kind of family eats their dinner from a bucket?"
Back to motoring, his car related stuff is quite amusing too, the "Hammersmith elbow" where he pushes the door lock button down with his elbow as he pulls onto Hammersmith Broadway and his impressions of strangers trying to find the door handle to exit ...
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how can I put this... right-wing? Your sympathies seem firmly with big business. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just rare these days!
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without wishing to stray off-topic, i am surprised anyone should be against any size of business. as long as they are not forcing you do anything against your will.
business and market forces are seen as forces for good, even in russia or china. i believe money grows on trees, and would rather live in cuba, or venezuela, or work for the leader living in the glass house south of the thames near tower bridge.
as it is off topic, i shall say no more.
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"i believe money grows on trees, and would rather live in cuba, or venezuela, or work for the leader living in the glass house south of the thames near tower bridge."
I understood your point up to there! I am not anti-business either, but wary of it, as I am of most things. Logically thinking, anything that is run purely for profit doesn't have your best interests at heart, so you will get screwed over if you don't watch your back. I find it hard to advocate ever-increasing profits for firms where the only beneficaries are the fat cats at the top. Blah blah entreprenurial risk blah, I've heard it all before... All I have to say is: example of Vodafone. Senior management suffer greed overload, buy everything in sight, lose 40 quadzillion pounds. 400 people lose their jobs. Now, even if smug corporate fatty HAS lost his job as well as the proles, you betcha life he gets paid off, and the OBN will make sure he gets another well-paid pointless made up job.
Back to topic, the link is: haven't Vodafone just spent ANOTHER small fortune on sponsorship? Wonder how much that cost them, does anyone know?
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>> i believe money grows on trees,
Of course it does. Where do you think paper comes from? ??
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