Watch out if you get the older (eastern European?) attendants. They pretty much act like they're doing you a favor by filling up your gas. Some events that stick out in my mind:
1. During Hurricane Sandy, when there was gas rationing and everyone was waiting about an hour for gas, they said their credit card machines weren't working when I finally got up to the pump. Being that I had no cash since none of the banks or ATMs had power, I only had a credit card. I told the attendant that a card was all I had and he snatched it out of my hand and lo and behold, the card reader on the pump worked. Good job trying to pad your profits while people are suffering.
2. When I bring them gas jugs to fill up, they either refuse to do it or give the worst attitude. One time, one of those attendants told ME to fill it up. Last I heard, it was AGAINST THE LAW in NJ to fill up your own gas. I wish I was allowed to do it myself, but instead, I have to pay these lousy attendants to do it for me.
3. Another time, I specified to fill up with Ultimate, and one of those attendants either misheard me or immediately forgot, and started filling up Regular. I called his attention that he's filling up the wrong grade and he gets EXTREMELY angry and starts screaming at me in English and his native language before stopping the fill-up and switching it to Ultimate. It's not my fault you messed up, man.
4. The last and final straw, I came in later in the night today for gas. The only attendants there are the ones that give trouble. I guess they didn't like that I needed service, which interrupted their smoke and cellphone break. When it finished, the attendant makes me reach my body out of the window to get my card back and just walks away without giving me a receipt until I call him back to ask him for one, which he makes me reach my body out of the window to get again. The worst of it is that when the pump stopped and he took the nozzle out, he SPRAYED, not dripped, SPRAYED gas all over the side of my car by the gas cap. And this is a car I painstakingly keep clean by detailing regularly. I understand that a few drops sometimes end up coming out of the nozzle when you remove it but a stream come out of the nozzle (confirmed when I smelled a strong scent of gas when I got home and saw streaks on the side of the car from the spilled gas).
There were more instances where those particular attendants were giving me grief but those are the most egregious ones, particularly the 4th. The other guys that work there are nice and friendly. It's just the older men with the permanent scowls on their faces that make so many trips there so horrible.
It was by far the most convenient gas station for me to go to. Even so, I will no longer be going there again and advise others to do the same if you have even an ounce of care for your car. read more