I stopped here on a weekday morning for a simple snack, but ended up with a side order of aggravation ....
This Shell features a tiny convenience store, eight gas pumps and a parking lot apparently full of booby traps (I'll explain later).
I will give credit where it's due: the store was neat and clean (except for the very streaky windows - maybe Silent Bob needs to get on that ... hint, hint), which was the only reason I gave it two stars instead of one.
Negatives include: no bathroom; no diesel; and a clerk who was dead silent the entire time I purchased my snack, which was a small cherry pie.
The parking lot, particularly the area around the underground gas tank fill covers, has several obstacles, including a orange cone. There was also a milk crate, although I think that at least was over one of the fill covers, which appeared to be missing the outer cover or something.
So I left the parking lot and got on Smith Street, heading toward the city, when a pedestrian on the passenger side of the road started waving wildly at my work truck and then pointed at it. At first, I thought he might be a crazy homeless person, but I figured I'd better pull over and look at my truck. I guess I ran over the orange cone back at Shell, and it somehow got caught under the truck (funny, I didn't hear any noise). I was in a hurry, so I just extricated the cone out from under my truck and didn't bother to drive back to Shell with it.
The second part of my aggravating Shell experience was when I started to eat my cherry pie and realized it was stale. When I was stopped at a light, I examined the box, and saw it was almost a month past the expiration date! Now I don't feel so bad about their stupid cone .... read more