Social networks are full of videos in which unfortunate motorists tear off filler pipes and gas station hoses, scaring themselves and those around them. The AvtoVzglyad portal tried to find out who is to blame for this – car owners or service station employees. And also to find out what caused such strange forgetfulness. And are there ways to prevent such dangerous incidents?
So drivers, having paid for refueling, carelessly get into the car and suddenly start moving toward the horizon, forgetting to pull the fuel pump “pistol” from the neck of the gas tank. Some of them manage to be stopped in time by the surprised tankers, but the fastest hide in the misty distance, take valuable property and are surprised that their neighbors downstream are signaling them.
So why can’t a modern person, perfectly mastering the high-tech expanses of the Internet and using advanced digital services, cope with ordinary everyday things? What prevents us from doing simple things correctly? More specifically, why do simple actions cause us big trouble?
And this is all the more important because we are talking about mistakes that can endanger lives. The answer is simple – modern technologies diligently simplify our existence. We don’t have to get food or even cook. You don’t even have to go to the store in person: everything will be delivered to your home. In other words, the world is diligently improving, but at the same time, digital services are beginning to reliably isolate us from real life and provide smart functions of computer ecosystems. So we actually only have to execute commands. And they do the rest themselves.
But there are still people in these ecosystems where the program cannot perform simple operations. For example, unscrew the gas tank cap and insert a “pistol” into it; check the end of refueling; pull out the “pistol” and close the tank with a lid. So there is a demand for a specific service of a tanker.
And although there is nothing new in this profession, where even one person appears, problems always arise (you can recall the Soviet film “Queen of the Gas Station”). Moreover, in our case there are two people: the driver and the tanker. And precisely in their wrong dealings with each other lies the problem. One did not follow, and the second did not have time. The result is a broken hose.
It also happens that upon hearing the information that the car is full, the owner, who does not have change or does not want to pay for this semi-official service, begins to regret. To get rid of this unpleasant feeling, he quickly tries to leave the gas station. Forgetting that the “prince of the gas station”, who has not received the expected reward, can deliberately leave the “pistol” in the tank.
Therefore, the driver must always control the tanker’s actions. It is also necessary to use a reasonable procedure of gratitude for the service rendered. First he fills up your car, and only then do you give him a modest reward. In addition, it allows you to check the correct completion of the procedure.
By the way, there is also a cohort of gloomy, but independent people who never let the tanker do the operation. They probably save their 5 or 10 rubles. But it is they who never forget to remove the filling “pistol” from the gas tank.
So drivers, having paid for refueling, carelessly get into the car and suddenly start moving toward the horizon, forgetting to pull the fuel pump “pistol” from the neck of the gas tank. Some of them manage to be stopped in time by the surprised tankers, but the fastest hide in the misty distance, take valuable property and are surprised that their neighbors downstream are signaling them.
So why can’t a modern person, perfectly mastering the high-tech expanses of the Internet and using advanced digital services, cope with ordinary everyday things? What prevents us from doing simple things correctly? More specifically, why do simple actions cause us big trouble?
And this is all the more important because we are talking about mistakes that can endanger lives. The answer is simple – modern technologies diligently simplify our existence. We don’t have to get food or even cook. You don’t even have to go to the store in person: everything will be delivered to your home. In other words, the world is diligently improving, but at the same time, digital services are beginning to reliably isolate us from real life and provide smart functions of computing ecosystems. So we really only have to execute commands. And they do the rest themselves.
But there are still people in these ecosystems where the program cannot perform simple operations. For example, unscrew the gas tank cap and insert a “pistol” into it; check the end of refueling; pull out the “pistol” and close the tank with a lid. So there is a demand for a specific service of a tanker.
And although there is nothing new in this profession, but where even one person appears, problems always arise (you can remember the Soviet film “Queen of the Gas Station”). Moreover, in our case there are two people: the driver and the tanker. And precisely in their wrong dealings with each other lies the problem. One did not follow, and the second did not have time. The result is a broken hose.
It also happens that upon hearing the information that the car is full, the owner, who does not have change or does not want to pay for this semi-official service, begins to regret. To get rid of this unpleasant feeling, he quickly tries to leave the gas station. Forgetting that the “prince of the gas station”, who has not received the expected reward, can deliberately leave the “pistol” in the tank.
Therefore, the driver must always control the tanker’s actions. It is also necessary to use a reasonable procedure of gratitude for the service rendered. First he fills up your car, and only then do you give him a modest reward. In addition, it allows you to check the correct completion of the procedure.
By the way, there is also a cohort of gloomy, but independent people who never let the tanker do the operation. They probably save their 5 or 10 rubles. But it is they who never forget to remove the filling “pistol” from the gas tank.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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