ok guys , no references to the documentary The Garage please
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A lot of the little scrotes wouldnât be trusted with cash.
Soft me bollix. A thirteen year old changing a tyre with a tyre iron in the dead of winter wasnât soft
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and that is the start of the story of how you married into a West Limerick filling station empire 
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Maxol, Haroldâs X, 1997-98. I was robbed by a junkie with a needle one evening. A couple of days later the cops brought me down to rathmines to interview me. They were asking me to describe him, which I did. One of them then asked me had he a Dublin accent. I genuinely had no recollection of his accent to the detectives dismay. He replied it must have been a Dublin accent and left it at that.
that was pretty much my role. Doing the yard and petrol pumps too was the main thing, but then there was the shopkeeping too. Was grand if there was a couple working, but the evenings the tight owner would only have one working (paying a mighty sum of ÂŁ1.50 an hour, and if you were lucky, would get a 50p bonus to round it up to a fiver doing the 6-9pm shift). This would have been around 92/93.
Subsequent to my employment there, they were robbed a couple of times. 3 people in the shop, one wanted petrol, one wanted something out of the hardware, and the other robbed the till whilst the only 2 attendants were out of sight. This happened a couple of times. Owner wanted his employees to fill petrol in case a customer put in too much petrol or diesel as it wasnt connected back to the shop so no way of telling how much was put in. Later on, the shop was swindled out of thousands of money by an employee who was taking cash out the whole time. The shop is now closed after going into receivership.
In a cash business you need to be there yourself constantly.
So a shop you knew the inner workings of was constantly robbed after you left. I think we can all draw our own conclusions to whatâs happened here.
I was only small time. Never cash, just a few bars of chocolate and crisps or whatnot as I was working. I knew the place well enough that it could have been properly robbed without any evidence being left due to the very cheap security in place. Luckily Iâm not a complete scumbag though.
The till was one of the old types too where all you have to do was hit enter and it opened up. none of these high tech signing in stuff there! Couple with either employing the cheapest staff around, or young people for their first job, they didnt have the best or most reliable staff either.
One woman I used to remember always tried con the shopkeepers. Sheâd take the price tag sticker off an item and get another much cheaper tag somewhere else. She was caught at this a few times. A few years later, she was working there. Iâd say she took home some shopping with her in the evenings when she left.
Having never worked in a filling station, I feel like Iâve missed out here.
Same
On a Model T
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MacMahons Esso Kinvara, 1992-1995, Weekends and Summers.
We sold home heating fuels along with Car fuel.
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There was a pay phone in the place which lead to all sorts of crack as youâd hear plenty gossip from around the town as you idled behind the till. We managed to crack the password for the phone eventually and spent the days ringing moaning housewives in Grimsby.
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You could listen to any music you wanted. I listened to Nirvana and my colleague listened to Billy Joel.
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Putting petrol into a diesel car was a deadly risk, youâd also turned a blind eye at the fellas who filled their own green diesel.
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Bags of Polish coal were no fun to be lugging around
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Brian Ferry threw me twenty pound once
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You needed your wits about you when tinkers arrived in the odd time.
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Bryan Ferryâs wife was a babe wasnât she?
Moycullen.
One morning.
Never asked back sadly as I was drafted in in an emergency when someone called in sick.
It was a job for moycullen royalty.
The owner/manager was busy shoeing horses out the back.
As I left, he thanked me, before informing me I was only a blow in as we hadnât âbeen here three generationsâ
It is a different town now.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Never met anyone famous.
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At the time I thought she was unreal⌠looking back on it she wasnât in the league of some of his later exploits like Amanda Sheppard etcâŚ
She looks wrecked there.
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She looks like some bird who works in a bookies in Drumcollogher,
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