thought y'all, and perhaps ben in particular, might find this of interest;

"Suddenly people forgot their obsession with the price of petrol, and began queueing at the more expensive "full-serve" pumps, so they could stay safely in the cars and let the poor sap who works there take the risk. One man told me he was pumping his own petrol the other morning, then suddenly remembered and went down into a cowardly crouch. He looked up a few moments later and saw a bloke on the other side of the pump doing precisely the same thing. "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,812091,00.html