Local Petrol Prices Options

[Biker1]

Just been up to Stafford today to move my son down from university and paid 113.9 per litre in a local petrol station.

The local ASDA was the same price.

119.9 is the cheapest I can find it locally.

Why the marked difference between them & us?

Is it something to do with the transport of the stuff or just a measure of the local cost of living?

Whatever it is we are loosing out.

[Iommi]

If people don't spell properly and use good grammar once or twice I don't care. If it becomes a regular thing I take the poster much less seriously.

Hear, hear.

That's your prerogative, for me, I'd rather listen to the message than worry that someone might have made a typing error, or simply can't spell. As has already been suggested, there might be people who are not English. There could also be people who have learning difficulties.

A Headmaster of mine was once talking to our assembly. He described how he had received a letter that was poorly written and was hard to understand. At some point after, he got to meet this person and discovered that the person who wrote the letter was blind. Our Headmaster described how disappointed he was with himself that he didn't initially give this person the benefit of the doubt.

At the end of the day we all have different abilities and we should be more considerate of one another if we are to consider ourselves civilised.

Fair enough, correct someone out of courtesy, but there is no need for rudeness. I find life can be unforgiving to the pompous.

[JeffG]

As has already been suggested, there might be people who are not English.

Without prolonging this too much, someone who learnt English as a foreign language is far less likely to make the sort of errors we have been talking about, so that's not a real argument.