Our tesco carpark exits into a roundabout – first exit leads you out of the “complex”, second exit takes you to the petrol station (and the third further into the complex to Lidl, McD etc). Because everyone seems to have shut their brains off when they heard “petrol” and “out” in the same sentence, of course everyone was queuing for petrol – through the outside lane of the roundabout, ensuring that people who aren’t as stupid (and yes, there’s no other way to describe it) sit in the same queue to get to the first exit/leave. Hundreds of cars, and only two pumps of eight going (for the following reason). Doesn’t help that road planners seem to have sniffed glue too, since the cars coming OUT of the petrol station can only go back into the blocked roundabout and have to cross it past the petrol station exit (or round it) to get away, hence they only let two cars in to prevent them queuing at the station exit back into the pumps.
No, we didn’t queue for petrol, but it took us almost an hour to get off the parking lot and through to the first exit of the roundabout (around 300m).
Safe to say i wasn’t impressed. To put mildly.