Worst gas station/truck stop experience

[dorndawg]

That place Smitty’s (I think?) that used to be on the left just as you got to Alabama on the way to Gulf Shores? I once had to take a dump there as a kid and that’s prolly why I’ve never had rona. It was bleak, man.

Runner-up: in rural south Italy, the first time I had to use one of those squat potties. I might’ve cried a little bit.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Likely had a tiny little camera, back there, viewing you.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

That place Smitty’s (I think?) that used to be on the left just as you got to Alabama on the way to Gulf Shores? I once had to take a dump there as a kid and that’s prolly why I’ve never had rona. It was bleak, man.

Runner-up: in rural south Italy, the first time I had to use one of those squat potties. I might’ve cried a little bit.


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That hose on the spigot is a lovely shade of brown.

 

[dorndawg]

Likely had a tiny little camera, back there, viewing you.

I gotta be honest with you here and say that tracks, considering the surroundings.

 

[patdog]

One in some small town in west Alabama recently. Had to stop for gas. Went to decent looking chevron to use my discount. Used my code & card but pump didn’t work. Went inside & clerk said “that pump don’t work” (so maybe put a bag over it or a sign). Went to another pump. Same thing. Said screw this & went to Shell across the street. Pump worked but was incredibly slow. Went inside & peed, then went to McDonald’s next door & got done coffee. Came back & tank was finally almost full. Then the shutoff didn’t work so I got gas down the side of my car.

 

[mcdawg22]

That place Smitty’s (I think?) that used to be on the left just as you got to Alabama on the way to Gulf Shores? I once had to take a dump there as a kid and that’s prolly why I’ve never had rona. It was bleak, man.

Runner-up: in rural south Italy, the first time I had to use one of those squat potties. I might’ve cried a little bit.


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Was it Smitty’s or Snuffy Smiths. Snuffy Smiths was the wooden shack gas station in Wilmer. It has a bunch of Cracker Barrell junk.

 

[dorndawg]

Was it Smitty’s or Snuffy Smiths. Snuffy Smiths was the wooden shack gas station in Wilmer. It has a bunch of Cracker Barrell junk.

Maybe that was it

 

[8dog]

Both of the ones in Lucedale on 98 were shockingly bad and I was thrilled to see Loves knock them out of their monopoly.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

That place Smitty’s (I think?) that used to be on the left just as you got to Alabama on the way to Gulf Shores? I once had to take a dump there as a kid and that’s prolly why I’ve never had rona. It was bleak, man.

Runner-up: in rural south Italy, the first time I had to use one of those squat potties. I might’ve cried a little bit.


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Seen plenty of those in Korea, Kuwait and Qatar. Never had to poop in one PTL.

 

[Dawgbite]

Both of the ones in Lucedale on 98 were shockingly bad and I was thrilled to see Loves knock them out of their monopoly.

Made the mistake of stopping at the Chevron , I think, in Lucedale on 98 about a month ago. I was pumping gas and the Mrs went in to pee. She said it was disgusting and came back out. Luckily we both made it to the new Loves but it was close.

 

[Wesson Bulldog]

That new Shell station on hwy 12 at 25 intersection. Leaving the Rkansas game last year. I had to go BAD. Pulled into parking lot thinking what a nice place. Thankfully no line for the men's restroom so I swiftly entered and locked the door. 'It' was turtle-heading. Couldn't make it stop. I got to sit on seat and someone had sh*t all over it. Like, in the movies when someone gets shot and blood spatters everywhere. Except this was an explosion of brown. By that time it was too late, the dam was breaking. I frantically reach for the toilet paper roll to begin some sort of cleaning of the seat. Much to my chagrin, there is none! So, I did what every man in my shoes would've done: I took off my brand new whit le MSU logo'd alumni shirt that I purchased a few hours before at Barnes and Noble and wiped as much of the crap off the toilet seat as I could. No telling how much of it was on my hands. Yes itvsmelled about like how you think it would. The whole scene lasted about 10 seconds, but felt like a lifetime. Finally after making my deposit, and wiping my arse with my soiled new shirt, I go to wash my hands, and the soap dispenser and paper towel holder are empty. So now I have my **** AND someone else's on my hands.
Thankfully I was wearing a plain white t-shirt underneath. When I got back to the car, my wife noticed how shaken I was. Ended up going to academy sports to clean myself up and purchase cleaning wipes to sanitize the steering wheel so I could drive 3 hours home with some dignity.

 

[Puppers]

I stopped at a truck stop late one night and got a hot dog. I went to put mustard on it and the pump spayed just an absurd amount of mustard all over my shirt.

The cashier looked at me and said "yeah it's been doing that to people all night". I was about 6 feet from her and the only person in there. She could have so easily saved me from ruining a shirt and having to smell mustard for the rest of the night but I guess the entertainment value of watching idiots coat themselves in French's would be pretty high.

 

[HotMop]

Hwy 45 south of Meridian driving north, pulled into some gas station that was up on a hill. I walked into the stall and it looked like someone had been stabbed, there was a needle with blood on it like some idiot stabbed himself in an artery.

 

[17itdawg]

Somewhere in southern Wisconsin about ten years ago. I'm literally about to $h!t in my pants. Pull into the truck stop. Looks nice-ish and clean from the outside. Think more mom and pop independently owned kind of place. I run in. Open the door it looked like a 17ing horror movie scene. All kinds of what appeared to be various people's vomit and fecal matter on the walls and floor. At this point there was no turning back for me. Bought some overpriced hand sanitizer and basically bathed in it. Threw the clothes and shoes I wore into the bathroom in the trash.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

I just had buckees brisket sandwich for the first time. That might be the best marketing ever. Sandwich absolutely sucked, but people keep buying them.

 

[Curby]

That place Smitty’s (I think?) that used to be on the left just as you got to Alabama on the way to Gulf Shores? I once had to take a dump there as a kid and that’s prolly why I’ve never had rona. It was bleak, man.

Runner-up: in rural south Italy, the first time I had to use one of those squat potties. I might’ve cried a little bit.


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Seen many of those in Japan. Luckily the last stall against the back wall of most public restroom contains a standard Western commode.

 

[Anon1728174187]

I owned a 20ft stock trailer. The floor in this trailer was wooden boards and had gaps between them. I had a brood mare that I was hauling from central Ms to just outside of Huntsville Al. to be bred. On the north side Birmingham I saw this nice new convenience store that had diesel fuel. So I pull in to the center lane of pumps. The truck is pulled up to last pump but the trailer is in the middle. I get out to pump the diesel and I hear the sound water running I look the water was coming from the underneath of the trailer. I realized that this mare had peed. We pulled out to leave and looked back there was this pool of pee smack dab in the middle of the convenience gas pumps the size of my truck.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

I just had buckees brisket sandwich for the first time. That might be the best marketing ever. Sandwich absolutely sucked, but people keep buying them.

It’s very mid. It is nothing spectacular by any means.

The brisket and egg breakfast burrito is pretty solid.

 

[Negative Waves]

Recently went through Oxford for a work trip. I had to stop to get gas and take a leak on the south side of town on 7. I walk in to use to the restroom, and there’s a giant turd right in the middle of the restroom floor. I don’t know how someone manages that.

 

[MSTerritoryDog]

I just had buckees brisket sandwich for the first time. That might be the best marketing ever. Sandwich absolutely sucked, but people keep buying them.

To me, a clean restroom is worth $0.10 more per gallon.

 

[woozman]

Maybe that was it

Yeah, Snuffy Smiths was it. I grew up in Lucedale and that's one of the places we could hit up for beer when we were in HS because they only carded about 25% of the time. It's been closed for a long time. I live on the coast now so don't drive 98 anymore, but I want to say it's been closed for a couple decades now. I think it opened back up for a while about 10 years ago, but it didn't stay open long.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

There’s a gas station onHighway 49 near Lula that might have the most disgusting bathroom I’ve been in ever. All I did was take a piss and I felt like I needed to burn my clothes.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

I just had buckees brisket sandwich for the first time. That might be the best marketing ever. Sandwich absolutely sucked, but people keep buying them.

This. I was spoiled in texas. Buccees nearby, when they were actually only about 6, including the one the size of a small 4 pump circle K. Even then, people raved on the food. It was still gas station food. The one thing I applaud is the sparkling bathrooms.

 

[17itdawg]

I just had buckees brisket sandwich for the first time. That might be the best marketing ever. Sandwich absolutely sucked, but people keep buying them.

Completely overrated. But, boy can they market it. My kids and wife always want to stop there. I'm getting to the point that I avoid routes with a Buc-ees on it when possible. It's always a madhouse inside them. No gas stop should take me 30 minutes to an hour to get back on the road.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Completely overrated. But, boy can they market it. My kids and wife always want to stop there. I'm getting to the point that I avoid routes with a Buc-ees on it when possible. It's always a madhouse inside them. No gas stop should take me 30 minutes to an hour to get back on the road.

My wife and I stopped at one last week near Nashville at 6 AM. It was wonderful. There were maybe 15 people in the whole store. If you stop at one near lunchtime it’s a madhouse.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

My most memorable stop had to be a small place in Vidor Texas, circa 1993. We would have to go out in the sticks to do work on NG pumping stations and we were down there and stopped on the way in the morning. It had a huge wall sized confed flag painted on the parking side of the building. Not a big deal, and I was young and also didn't know. I went in, and the place went silent and most everyone watched me all through my looking for little chocolate donuts and snacks for the day.

They didn't like visitors of any color, I just happened to been their color so I didn't get the full treatment.

 

[Motodawg]

The sewer has been stopped up at the shell on 25 and holly bush since I’ve lived in the area (10 years or so). It leaks sewage everywhere in the parking lot. The bathroom is just as bad. You aren’t going to get to **** in the dg next door, either.

The men’s bathroom in the chevron right when you cross the spillway is always 17ed too.

 

[17itdawg]

My wife and I stopped at one last week near Nashville at 6 AM. It was wonderful. There were maybe 15 people in the whole store. If you stop at one near lunchtime it’s a madhouse.

We had one 30 - 45 minutes south of us when we lived in KY. I would occasionally stop there on early mornings by myself when I was traveling. It was a completely different store around 4 to 5 am.

 

[mcdawg22]

We had one 30 - 45 minutes south of us when we lived in KY. I would occasionally stop there on early mornings by myself when I was traveling. It was a completely different store around 4 to 5 am.

Are they still chopping meats and prepping food at that time? The earliest I’ve been in one is 6 the latest 10. For those of us that have had good brisket it’s not on the same page. Biggest clue is they put sauce on it. But for the buys brisket at a CEFCO crowd it is a big step up. It’s actually sliced in front of everyone so that makes it “authentic” for them I’m sure. You can hate all you want but the three meat sandwich is solid. But it’s the turkey that stands out.

 

[17itdawg]

Are they still chopping meats and prepping food at that time? The earliest I’ve been in one is 6.

Yes, but it's significantly less stuff out and people working. I got the breakfast brisket tacos a couple of times that early.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Are they still chopping meats and prepping food at that time? The earliest I’ve been in one is 6 the latest 10. For those of us that have had good brisket it’s not on the same page. Biggest clue is they put sauce on it. But for the buys brisket at a CEFCO crowd it is a big step up. It’s actually sliced in front of everyone so that makes it “authentic” for them I’m sure. You can hate all you want but the three meat sandwich is solid. But it’s the turkey that stands out.

Yes they were chopping the brisket at 6 am to make the breakfast tacos.

The three meat is much better than the straight brisket.

 

[dorndawg]

Are they still chopping meats and prepping food at that time? The earliest I’ve been in one is 6 the latest 10. For those of us that have had good brisket it’s not on the same page. Biggest clue is they put sauce on it. But for the buys brisket at a CEFCO crowd it is a big step up. It’s actually sliced in front of everyone so that makes it “authentic” for them I’m sure. You can hate all you want but the three meat sandwich is solid. But it’s the turkey that stands out.

Hear that, @PooPopsBaldHead ? They slice the brisket right in front of you, just like Terry Blacks or Snows.

 

[Braves Dawg]

It feels like it's appropriate to revisit this in this thread.

http://www.ihos.com/steakhouse.html

 

[Darryl Steight]

Made the mistake of stopping at the Chevron , I think, in Lucedale on 98 about a month ago. I was pumping gas and the Mrs went in to pee. She said it was disgusting and came back out. Luckily we both made it to the new Loves but it was close.

At this point when we get to Lucedale all my kids know we are all holding it and riding it out til we see the giant beaver.

 

[Shmuley]

As someone who has spent some time in Ethiopia, let me tell you guys that you have no idea what passes for acceptable comfort facilities in other parts of the world. No 17n idea. To say that we are spoiled with the civilized state of sanitary facilities in the US would be quite the understatement.

 

[dorndawg]

holding it and riding it out til we see the giant beaver.

Been there, buddy. Been there.

 

[Darryl Steight]

As someone who has spent some time in Ethiopia, let me tell you guys that you have no idea what passes for acceptable comfort facilities in other parts of the world. No 17n idea. To say that we are spoiled with the civilized state of sanitary facilities in the US would be quite the understatement.

I bet. And you can add India to that list. They only wish they were worried about some shiit smeared on a Chevron wall in Mumbai.

 

[Darryl Steight]

Been there, buddy. Been there.

 

[dorndawg]

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[dawgman42]

That new Shell station on hwy 12 at 25 intersection. Leaving the Rkansas game last year. I had to go BAD. Pulled into parking lot thinking what a nice place. Thankfully no line for the men's restroom so I swiftly entered and locked the door. 'It' was turtle-heading. Couldn't make it stop. I got to sit on seat and someone had sh*t all over it. Like, in the movies when someone gets shot and blood spatters everywhere. Except this was an explosion of brown. By that time it was too late, the dam was breaking. I frantically reach for the toilet paper roll to begin some sort of cleaning of the seat. Much to my chagrin, there is none! So, I did what every man in my shoes would've done: I took off my brand new whit le MSU logo'd alumni shirt that I purchased a few hours before at Barnes and Noble and wiped as much of the crap off the toilet seat as I could. No telling how much of it was on my hands. Yes itvsmelled about like how you think it would. The whole scene lasted about 10 seconds, but felt like a lifetime. Finally after making my deposit, and wiping my arse with my soiled new shirt, I go to wash my hands, and the soap dispenser and paper towel holder are empty. So now I have my **** AND someone else's on my hands.
Thankfully I was wearing a plain white t-shirt underneath. When I got back to the car, my wife noticed how shaken I was. Ended up going to academy sports to clean myself up and purchase cleaning wipes to sanitize the steering wheel so I could drive 3 hours home with some dignity.

Six. Pack. Remembers.