This place has plenty of amenities, but the real attraction is the ongoing Shell vs. Sonic civil war.
I mentioned that the bathrooms were in pretty rough shape to the Shell employee, who immediately informed me that they were "the Sonic people's responsibility." So I walked over to Sonic, where the employee looked completely defeated and explained she'd been told she wasn't even allowed on the Shell side.
What happened next deserved an Emmy.
The Sonic employee marched over, confronted the Shell employee, and basically said, "Pick a lane. Either I'm allowed on your side and I clean the bathrooms, or I'm not allowed over there and you clean them."
In the end, despite the standoff, she grabbed the cleaning supplies and cleaned the bathrooms herself.
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