FILL IT UP PLEASE MATE
Refuelling your car doesn’t have to bea DIY chore. Instead,you canget anattendantto doit foryou– if, like John Evans, you know where to go
People chat while their car is refuelled, so it’s good for PR
It’s true: they’ll also top upyour washer fluid, water and oil
Time Out lists 13 things to do inMarlow, Buckinghamshire: everything from doffing your hat to the statue of Olympic rowing legend Sir Steve Redgrave to driving over the town’s Grade II-listed suspension bridge. Well, we’ve a 14th: having yourcar filled up at PlattsGarage.
Note, ‘having it filled up’ and not ‘filling it up’. There’s a difference. Regarding the former, you stay in your car and tell Tony, 75 and sharp as a tack, which fuel you want and how much. The latter is just plain old self-service, which you can experience anywhere – and stillpay through the nose.
Not that Platts is cheap, at 191.9 pence per litre for unleaded, or around a penny dearer than the average price reported by the government when this was written. Still, asoutraged social-media users are fond of proving, you can pay much more for self-service elsewhere in the country, and that’s before we start talking about motorway service stations.