"Tim S" wrote in message
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gazz coughed up some electrons that declared:

unfortunately at that place they used a 'rrrriiiiinnnggggg' type door
bell, which was fine if cars ran over it, it's go 'ding ding' but when
the
trucks came to fill up one of hteir trailer tyres would be on the hose,
and the damn bell would ring all the time.

Do you remember when traffic lights had this sort of setup, with two hoses
set into the road?

i'm not that old, this was in about 1995... prolly one of the last remaining
full attendant service petrol stations around, and was only self service
because the boss was too tight to get new pumps that could be controlled
from inside, hence it had to be attendant service by law as no way to shut
the pump off if someone did something silly with it.