2026-05-12 17:42:15

A woman took to social media to complain about a Tesco cashier – only to be informed she was in the wrong.

Chelsie Botting took to social media to express her frustration and anger, after she was castigated by a petrol station cashier for using her phone on a forecourt.

Chelsie explained in a TikTok video: “She was making all these hand gestures to me through the window and wouldn’t authorise my pump … I was thinking, ‘What are you doing? What do you want?’ – and then she came out and was being really aggressive and shouty.”

Chelsie observed that the forecourt was “packed”, as she was warned for using her phone at the petrol station.

She said: “I don’t know about you, but I pay with Apple Pay and my [Tesco] Clubcard is on my phone. So I get my phone out and put fuel in my car in the same way that I would get my purse out and stand there and put the fuel in the car.”

Chelsie was told she couldn’t use her phone on the forecourt and that she needed to leave the smartphone in her car.

However, she didn’t agree with the rule at all.

She said: “Am I wrong in thinking that this rule is so outdated? Okay, don’t stand there on the phone while you are putting fuel in … but f*** me, even my parents pay on their phones!”

Chelsie observed that the cashier was “either in a bad mood or on a f****** power-trip”.

She explained: “She was so rude. I’m just really, really cross and actually, I would have driven off – but I really needed the fuel.

“Everyone was looking at me and I felt really embarrassed. But I also felt like, ‘You’re wrong here’.”

Despite this, Chelsie was subsequently informed that she was in the wrong, rather than the cashier.

One of her followers explained: “I used to manage a petrol station. The no mobile phone rule is not about risk of ignition, but more around distraction.

“When fuelling you need to be concentrating on fuelling and not risk being distracted by your phone as this can lead to spillages, both small or significant.”

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