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Is datlas going to have to fight you to defend WaWa's honor?
Actually, the closest thing would be a combination of a very nice Love's and the Blandford rest area on the Masspike. Those rest areas defined what a rest area should be for me, and the move from CT to CO introduced me to "rest areas" that are pull-offs to park in (with maybe a vending machine) and the need to leave the highway for gas and restrooms. Down here in the southwest it's at least usually just a quick hop onto the service road, but just for a junky gas station most of the time. Buc'ees is the exemplar of the ideal.
Most of those "right-sized" (I guess) gas stations also don't have enough off-pump parking, so you wind up being a shower tote one way or the other while you go inside. Terrible all around.
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WaWa is cute but no, no chance of comparison.
Actually, the closest thing would be a combination of a very nice Love's and the Blandford rest area on the Masspike. Those rest areas defined what a rest area should be for me, and the move from CT to CO introduced me to "rest areas" that are pull-offs to park in (with maybe a vending machine) and the need to leave the highway for gas and restrooms. Down here in the southwest it's at least usually just a quick hop onto the service road, but just for a junky gas station most of the time. Buc'ees is the exemplar of the ideal.
Most of those "right-sized" (I guess) gas stations also don't have enough off-pump parking, so you wind up being a shower tote one way or the other while you go inside. Terrible all around.
Actually, the closest thing would be a combination of a very nice Love's and the Blandford rest area on the Masspike. Those rest areas defined what a rest area should be for me, and the move from CT to CO introduced me to "rest areas" that are pull-offs to park in (with maybe a vending machine) and the need to leave the highway for gas and restrooms. Down here in the southwest it's at least usually just a quick hop onto the service road, but just for a junky gas station most of the time. Buc'ees is the exemplar of the ideal.
Most of those "right-sized" (I guess) gas stations also don't have enough off-pump parking, so you wind up being a shower tote one way or the other while you go inside. Terrible all around.
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Although the bear does have a valid point. Those "service stations" do appear to be an typical example of 'Merikan excess, oversize consumption and crass commercialization. Although clean toilets and ok treated employees make up for a lot. (is $15hr + insurance for unskilled staff decent in US?)
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Yes.
A lot of unskilled labor is at $8-10/hr.
A lot of unskilled labor is at $8-10/hr.
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Although the bear does have a valid point. Those "service stations" do appear to be an typical example of 'Merikan excess, oversize consumption and crass commercialization. Although clean toilets and ok treated employees make up for a lot. (is $15hr + insurance for unskilled staff decent in US?)
ETA: Federal minimum wage here is $7.25/hr, which is shameful. There's a push towards $15/hr that doesn't have the political will to get through now, but some states (generally the liberal and wealthy states) did it anyway, and the late-pandemic employment crush raised a lot more jobs towards that anyway.
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The first time that I saw a Buc'ees was in 2016 between Austin and New Braunfels. I was absolutely gobsmacked and didn’t want to leave.
Never experienced any other place like it and we get around quite a bit.
Never experienced any other place like it and we get around quite a bit.
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Quite a lot. My employer just raised our minimum wage to $22, but that's easier in banking of course (though many tellers and admins made less than that). Critically, to have the size needed for a Buc'ees, they put them in the emptiness between the major Texas cities. In those areas, $15/hr with benefits is huge, and probably makes them among the best employers in town. I'm sure it gives them access to the best employees around. Probably many of them are in farming households mostly there to get insurance for the family.
ETA: Federal minimum wage here is $7.25/hr, which is shameful. There's a push towards $15/hr that doesn't have the political will to get through now, but some states (generally the liberal and wealthy states) did it anyway, and the late-pandemic employment crush raised a lot more jobs towards that anyway.
ETA: Federal minimum wage here is $7.25/hr, which is shameful. There's a push towards $15/hr that doesn't have the political will to get through now, but some states (generally the liberal and wealthy states) did it anyway, and the late-pandemic employment crush raised a lot more jobs towards that anyway.
Btw. the minimum wage for adults is $21.20/hr here. of course our cost of living is high as well.
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I had a nice ride with 3 friends and afterward we had birthday lunch for one of the guys. I got my lunch paid for, too, lucky me.
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$6 seats of the day. Pretty warm breeze blowing across the field, time to close that roof.
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It's a system that's worked well for generations: You pull up to the pump, get your gas, and if you want to do anything beyond a quick trip to the bathroom, you move your vehicle to a parking space. You don't leave your car at the gas pump for an hour. That's loco.
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Great ride tonight. I was told a couple times That I am a monster. Booo! Also my Dad might be coming home on Thursday. He's been in a rehab place for a month after we almost lost him to an infection after a course of chemo. He passed out and fell down. Then he got pneumonia in the hospital. And that almost got him. Luck will have it my sister was in town and talked with the Dr., she's a Rn. In Maine where she lives. She asked for a chest xray. Sure enough, pneumonia. God willing, things will go OK.
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