Petrol, or a Lilo?

Listen up here. Have you tried buying a gallon of petrol recently? I'd advise a stiff drink before ever thinking about it. If petrol was all you'd be wanting, you'd probably get away without breaking sweat. But try to get your hands on a petrol filler-cap or a P12 spark plug; try to get some of the air around you into the tyres; or even try a desultory conversation with the blight behind the bullet-proof glass panel. You have to mouth your request, be it for a deck-chair, lilo or pot-plant, through the slit below the glass, quickly replacing your mouth with your ear before the wretch responds. And of course a deck-chair will not fit through the slit, any more than the tin of 20:30 that he has just run out of.