This is not in the least funny, and the poor woman involved is not a last-minute contender for the 2014 Darwin Awards.
— The video has now been removed from YouTube —
She drives on to a garage forecourt and realises that the petrol cap is on the other side of her car from the pump. Note how she keeps checking to see that her flap is on the nearside each time she notices it hasn’t got any nearer to a pump. She drives around in a circle until – on her fourth attempt – she suddenly realises that the nearside and offside of the car remain on their respective sides no matter which way you’re facing. She finally realises that she’s got to actually turn around in order for the nearside of her car to be next to a pump.
What makes it even worse – and none of the media sources who have covered the story seem to have picked up on it – is that the nozzles at that petrol station are on rollers, and they would reach around the other side anyway, no matter which way you’re facing. This is one of my pet hates: sitting in a queue at the garage while several unused pumps remain blocked by old people and… ahem… non-male drivers as they wait to get to their “favourite” one.
Back to the video. You also have to wonder how many times she’s filled the car up before. And she still doesn’t get it.
According to the CCTV stamp, this only happened a couple of days ago.