It depends if I'm stopping for a 1 or 2. If it's the latter then I always buy something as an apology.
Convenience Stores When Traveling
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If a Casey’s or a chain I frequent, only if I need. If not a frequent then usually.
Worst was a station back in college days south of the UNIDome. Light switch was apparently hidden so no one found it. Also turned out they stored a push mower on there. Nice to find in the pitch black dark. I’m guessing I may have made the toilet part of the time, when you can’t see you don’t know. May have even accidentally peed on that mower parked in there. That was awful.
Worst was a station back in college days south of the UNIDome. Light switch was apparently hidden so no one found it. Also turned out they stored a push mower on there. Nice to find in the pitch black dark. I’m guessing I may have made the toilet part of the time, when you can’t see you don’t know. May have even accidentally peed on that mower parked in there. That was awful.
Apparently I’ve been going to the wrong gas stations for 30 years.
Before kids and when traveling between Wichita and Iowa our stop would be the Wendy's in a gas station in Cameron. The Mrs and I could fill the car, walk the dog, go to the bathroom, get food and get back on the road in 10 minutes or so. Stops were reserved for necessities on those long drives.
Now with kids Lord knows. Stops can be random and I try and get out without buying more snacks but they make you walk past them to get to/from the bathroom on purpose...
Now with kids Lord knows. Stops can be random and I try and get out without buying more snacks but they make you walk past them to get to/from the bathroom on purpose...
I think we stopped there on the way back from Norman. That Wendy’s was closed at that time.
It's usually dependent if I need a drink or not. I try and use rest areas as much as possible, but if I'm unable to make it to one, or there isn't one available, I'll use a convivence store without buying something.
Kwik Star pays pretty well in most places, so they can usually attract a few 6's and 7's.
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On the way down to Memphis for the bowl game a few years ago, we stopped at a gas station in Arkansas to use the restroom, and it was hands down the grossest bathroom I have ever been in. It didn't look like it had ever been cleaned. And I couldn't tell you if the feces spread everywhere was even human in origin, because of the giant hole in the ceiling, giving full access to nature and the elements.
There wasn't a single square inch that wasn't covered in something, and everything, I mean everything, was wet with who knows what fluids.
There was absolutely nothing I would have accepted as a gift from that convenience store, let alone pay for.
There wasn't a single square inch that wasn't covered in something, and everything, I mean everything, was wet with who knows what fluids.
There was absolutely nothing I would have accepted as a gift from that convenience store, let alone pay for.
Plenty of college co-eds work at convivence stores. Kwik Star has plenty of college students and managers that are fairly "hot." I think kum & go hires ex strippea as managers. At least the one near me does.
Ever wonder why some sows will eat their piglets? I don't.
Not sure. I was there visiting friends. It was a dump that was south of the UNI. Of course the rest of us didn’t tell our friends so they could experience tripping over that mower and possibly landing in pee.
If you don't flush, you are not obligated to buy anything, right? Asking for a friend, of course.
If it's the one I'm thinking of it got robbed at least once when I went to school. Had a classmate who was there while it happened.
