Worst gas station/truck stop experience
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Gas station at corner on 25 in Louisville after football game in 2011
pump was not marked as broken. Started the pump and gas started spraying every where. Got all over clothes drenched in gas. Gas station folks just kind of said sorry. Never got anything from them. Had to drive home 2 hours drenched in gas and fumes. Took me forever to get that smell out of my truck. Till this day I don't stop at that gas station if I'm going through there. And I give them the bird.
pump was not marked as broken. Started the pump and gas started spraying every where. Got all over clothes drenched in gas. Gas station folks just kind of said sorry. Never got anything from them. Had to drive home 2 hours drenched in gas and fumes. Took me forever to get that smell out of my truck. Till this day I don't stop at that gas station if I'm going through there. And I give them the bird.
Somewhere between Gavião Peixoto and São Paulo, Brazil. We stopped at truck stop to get gas and eat before catching a flight back to the States. I don't recall what I ate, but it hit about an hour into the flight. Probably the most miserable I have ever been in my life. About 7 hours of going to can every 30 minutes. Just glad that I had an aisle seat
There was a restroom at a Chevron on 49 just north of Hattiesburg... you could smell the stagnant pee 10 feet before you opened the bathroom door, which was the entrance to the store...
Anyway, I got in and did the "pull my shirt up to cover my nose and mouth" trick and it did not help at all. I doubt that restroom had been cleaned in 90+ days.
My plan is to develop a "bleach bomb" to keep in the back of the car when we travel. Pour it all over the urinals and on the floor while holding my breath, while spraying lysol in the air with the other hand.
You gotta also BYOTP and then wash your hands outside the bathroom with a water bottle, soap and hand towel. And yes, use TP to open the door handle on the inside as leaving.
So its going to be a swat style backpack for covert ops to put everything in. A clean restroom is worth 25 cents more a gallon. It's the main reason why Bucees got famous initially. Folks all across the nation waiting in line to not be disgusted in a gas station restroom. Still a top 2 reason for stopping at Bucees.
Anyway, I got in and did the "pull my shirt up to cover my nose and mouth" trick and it did not help at all. I doubt that restroom had been cleaned in 90+ days.
My plan is to develop a "bleach bomb" to keep in the back of the car when we travel. Pour it all over the urinals and on the floor while holding my breath, while spraying lysol in the air with the other hand.
You gotta also BYOTP and then wash your hands outside the bathroom with a water bottle, soap and hand towel. And yes, use TP to open the door handle on the inside as leaving.
So its going to be a swat style backpack for covert ops to put everything in. A clean restroom is worth 25 cents more a gallon. It's the main reason why Bucees got famous initially. Folks all across the nation waiting in line to not be disgusted in a gas station restroom. Still a top 2 reason for stopping at Bucees.
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Reminds me of that story I think I first saw here of the poor guy traveling with customers and coworkers in a private jet and having to drop a deuce and the toilet just had a little curtain around it (no room w/ a door) and he had an explosion that his customers and coworkers could hear.
The one thing I do not understand about it, you're almost encouraged to park at the pump and spend all the time you want inside buying gas station food and random beaver imprinted merch.
The craziest gas station I have been to is the Marathon in Peppertown, MS. I was on my way to Tupelo, and it hit me hard. I pulled off and it was the only gas station around. I went in and the door for the bathroom was locked. The guy gives me the key and when I unlocked it, I entered a massive room. This was not the bathroom, and the owner yells keep walking you'll see it. Sure, enough there it was in the back of this room on a platform. I went quick and got out. When I gave the guy the key, I notice they have an entire Baskin Robbins set up they had purchased somewhere.
You mother17er. You just had to get me going huh?
It's the same story, except it was the mid-80s for me, and we were going north on Interstate 55 in Arkansas. We were on our way to Wisconsin. The only difference was a nice collection of 9 mm casings on the bathroom floor. I don't think I stopped again until Missouri. Now that I remember it, there was splatter more blood and than splattered **** on the walls
Gotta get the burrito next time. With or without egg doesn't matter. It's a thousand times better
I posted that piece just to bait him. Guess he’s too busy picking fights.
Not quit on topic but in the same ballpark.
I was in the AF stationed in Germany and took a trip to Paris pretty quickly after arriving overseas. Was walking around with some other guys from my squadron and I had to go to the restroom. Noticed a circular building with a sign that I made out to be a restroom in the middle of the sidewalk. You had to drop coins into the door area in order to enter and once I entered I didn't see any urinals just a round cement tank kinda thing that I assumed was the toilet and thought it odd that you just stood around and urinated into this thing with everyone just starring at you. But I was ok as I was the only one in there so I decided i'd go quickly while no one else was in there. About midstream the door opens and two dudes walk in raising 9 kinds of hell and walked over to the walls and started there business. I was done and was looking for a place to wash my hands and discovered I had pissed in the sink. No nozzles or anything water just shot out from the edge of the concrete. I had never seen anything like it.
So if you're ever Paris and they treat you poorly, I may be partly to blame.
I was in the AF stationed in Germany and took a trip to Paris pretty quickly after arriving overseas. Was walking around with some other guys from my squadron and I had to go to the restroom. Noticed a circular building with a sign that I made out to be a restroom in the middle of the sidewalk. You had to drop coins into the door area in order to enter and once I entered I didn't see any urinals just a round cement tank kinda thing that I assumed was the toilet and thought it odd that you just stood around and urinated into this thing with everyone just starring at you. But I was ok as I was the only one in there so I decided i'd go quickly while no one else was in there. About midstream the door opens and two dudes walk in raising 9 kinds of hell and walked over to the walls and started there business. I was done and was looking for a place to wash my hands and discovered I had pissed in the sink. No nozzles or anything water just shot out from the edge of the concrete. I had never seen anything like it.
So if you're ever Paris and they treat you poorly, I may be partly to blame.
No. 2 hit me between Duck Hill and Grenada one time. Stopped at a gas station and there was no seat on the toilet. It was leaning up against the toilet on the floor. Amazed how I successfully managed a balancing act without ending up in the floor or the toilet.
I will say my child had to pee one time and the nearest place was Heidelberg. Pulled into a Chevron and the bathrooms were actually pretty clean.
I will say my child had to pee one time and the nearest place was Heidelberg. Pulled into a Chevron and the bathrooms were actually pretty clean.
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Hot take: I spent some time in Southeast Asia and the squatty potties aren’t too bad. My worst experience however was taking a dump on a squatty potty for the first time and completely missing the toilet, pooping on the back of it.
My son went to the first national scout jamboree at the new place, 2014?, he said when you went to the latrine, it looked like that's how people went.
When the Superdome opened in 1972, the bathrooms were set up like this. I did the same as you, along with thousands of other Saints fans. There were numerous press releases and PSA's instructing fans how to use the men's restrooms in the Dome. Eventually they completely reconfigured the restrooms into a more traditional set up.
Is that the Jordan's that also has a post office inside of it? I got a good crack out of the fact you can check your PO box and grab a six pack in the same store.
I was there, It definitely was like that by the end of the trip.
The worse collection of gas stations known to man are in Mathiston, MS. They have 3 of them and none of the pumps hardly work at any of them, gas is 30 cents higher than what you can get in Starkville, and bathrooms are very limited.
In 2013, the airport in Beijing had holes in the ground to **** in. You stood on the tile and aimed for the hole in the ground. It was incredible.
See....Templeton could class that joint up.
I went back in 2001 at Fort AP Hill, Virginia. My sub-camp only had cold water for showers. Sometimes those latrines can be pretty rough.
When I was a freshman at State, @TrueMaroonGrind, @Preacher Dawg, among others (probably not on SPS) were coming back to Starkville late one night from a mini-road trip to BBW's in Olive Branch before Starkville had one. Right past Tupelo I had to take a piss like somethin' fierce, so we pulled over at the Marathon on the side of HWY45 in Okolona. Gas Station was closed, a few semi's were parked in the gravel lot for the night, no biggie, so I got out to squeeze the lemon by this random propane tank.
Everyone thought it would be a good hearted joke to pull away and "leave me" while I was handling business, I didn't think nothing of it till I started hearing whistling... I couldn't figure out where it was coming from, until I heard a cab door open. This big bear of a trucker man was getting out of his cab and walking towards me whistling.. and he was whistling for some bad intentions. I didn't really finish pissing, just took off running. Luckily, they had only pulled around to the front of the gas station. I dove in the car and we took off. I've never stopped at that gas station again.
Everyone thought it would be a good hearted joke to pull away and "leave me" while I was handling business, I didn't think nothing of it till I started hearing whistling... I couldn't figure out where it was coming from, until I heard a cab door open. This big bear of a trucker man was getting out of his cab and walking towards me whistling.. and he was whistling for some bad intentions. I didn't really finish pissing, just took off running. Luckily, they had only pulled around to the front of the gas station. I dove in the car and we took off. I've never stopped at that gas station again.
They have the same set up in Kuwait City. A buddy of mine pissed in the "sink" it didn't go over well.
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Oh heck yes. It was actually a marathon and half marathon. The starting point was the fish market down by the shore shore/shopping area. All the other Airmen were in line to use the proper toilet, my bozo roommate beelined to sink thing. If the looks from the haji's could kill he'd been dead.
Working in Saudi Arabia, out in the semi-wilderness at the time. Construction going on all the time, hundreds of workers all over the place. Our building was a one story, long, with the restroom in the middle. One day we heard a racket, like a fight or something. We all went to the door and looked out, and one of the workers was going down the hall from the restroom, going step, splash, step, splash, etc. Went into the restroom and figured out he didn't want to sit on the toilet so he just climbed up and stood over it. All was ok until his foot slipped and went into the toilet water.
I discovered the Upside App a few months ago....pretty lucrative....especially since I have a fleet card....anyway, i started off chasing some of the deals that were paying me .50/gal on my 33 gallon tank.....but I quickly learned that some of these gas stations are off the beaten path, and pretty shady......stick to the Circle K's if you use that app.