Well this was a shit-show. I stopped in Kettleman City to grab a bite to eat at In-N-Out, followed by a refuel here. Generally speaking, refueling a vehicle should not be a complicated process, particularly when you are paying at the pump with a credit card. Was that the case at this Shell? NOPE. It took about 20 minutes for me to put gas in my car, and it got to the point where I couldn't understand why the hell I just didn't tell them to piss off and go across the street to the other gas station.
The pump card reader didn't work, so I prepaid. Then the pump didn't work. But they insisted there was nothing wrong, reset the pump, and had me try it again. It still didn't work. They still wanted to try it with the crap pump until I finally reiterated that I'd just try it at a different pump. Then I had to wait for them to activate the other pump.
Nothing about this place seemed even remotely reasonable (there's a big sign on their fountain drink machine that says they charge extra for ice, WTF?), so I will be sure to not make the same mistake again. read more