Muted TV while filling my car

[question everything]

I had to go through several screens and several buttons before I could slide my credit card and start filling. Reward card? debit, credit, or other alternatives? Car wash? Want receipt?

So when I finally started filling and a TV screen came to life behind me, I started hitting on the buttons and on second try - top left - I got it muted. Nirvana (almost).

[patrice]

1. That tv = another one of those "remedies" that is so far behind the curve as to actually be more of

and from the oppressive forces that are causing the "need" for such tvs and guns and such in the first place.

Is there any fixing stupid?

[BlueStreak]

2. Is that BP? They just started doing that at the station near me.

I find that whole experience so annoying, I don't go there anymore. I really don't want to be bombarded with advertising ever second of the day.

[question everything]

4. Yes. I've been using BP since most of the years I've had the car

going into 15. So I hate to switch now. I really don't know if there is a difference between the different products.

[BlueStreak]

8. We have a gasoline terminal near my house. We see tankers of all the major brands

going through there every day. Sure seems to me it is the same product. Amoco claims to add a special detergent to their highest grade. And there are variations in the ethanol level. But otherwise, I'd say all the major brands are the same.

And nobody else is quite as obnoxious as BP about the in-your-face advertising. I wouldn't mind if there was a "Turn it off now" button, but I'll be damned if I will stand there for 4 minutes watching their stupid advertising. Other gas stations display ads on their pumps, but there is no sound, so you can simply look at something else. The sound on the BP stations is enough to make me patronize another brand.

[NV Whino]

3. Flyers does it in my area.

Small tank = fast fill and I'm out of there before I go postal and smash the little fucker.

[mikeytherat]

5. You're lucky they're new - the 'mute' button still works.

That poor, little pressure switch is going to be mashed into oblivion over the next few months. Eventually, neither the 'mute' button nor the 'volume' control will work (and the volume itself will be at MAX - distorted, tinny, and blaring).

mikey_the_rat

[question everything]

7. Oh really? You mean, others do the same?

Or do most people just live with it?

Will be interesting to see in several months.

[BlueStreak]

9. I don't see a mute button on the BP pumps.

[Control-Z]

6. I had no idea that you could mute

those damn things. Thank you for posting this. I will be looking for that button.

One of the stations in my area recently remodeled with warning lights and a loud message at every pump. It goes off with each use, so if there are 8 people pumping, each one gets their own warning before they start. It made me jump me when I used it for the first and last time (I haven't been back to that station). And, of course, the TV goes right back on after the warning is complete.