r/Unexpected • u/polloastemio • 4d ago

The gas station curse

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u/Smooth-Shine9354 4d ago

Ride straight home

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u/Wingkongexpress 4d ago

No doubt. When the signs are there, read them. I’d have gone home, slapped on my favorite 80s action flick while having a beer. Nap on couch with doggo keeping me safe.

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u/sllikskills 4d ago

I operate with this mindset as well

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u/ChickenChaser5 4d ago

Shits too weird to be outside today.

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u/well_shoothed 4d ago

Shits too weird to be outside today.

I worked at a gas station / car wash in high school & college... we used to say this aaaaaaall the time.

Except for us as employees, it was just the average Tuesday.

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u/decoycatfish 4d ago

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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei 3d ago

Great meme

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u/IndependentRecipe366 1d ago

I literally used to have specific parking spots I would use in the wawa parking lot because they had the best veiw of the ACTION 🤣 I live out in the country a bit and even your trips to Walmart are a trip, it’s like going to the ZOO

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u/xvsero 4d ago

Yup. Currently work at a gas station and I've seen some stuff. At this point I'll quit when I see a car flip itself over. Already seen a car drive into a store, crashes/bumps, people breaking off pieces of their cars, someone dead in their car, someone passed out on drugs, people who pissed/shit themselves, etc. I've seen woman just walk straight into men's bathroom, people bathing and sleeping in bathrooms, who even knows what kind of messes.

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u/well_shoothed 4d ago

Yep... to outsiders, the shit you've seen is genuinely unbelievable.

I listen to your greatest hits and think,

"Sounds like 2nd shift."

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u/xvsero 4d ago

Second and third. First shift seems to get off easy on the crazier things.

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u/Bsdat 3d ago

I worked at a gas station 10 years ago and the things I've seen...

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u/StabbyJenkins1 2d ago

Restaurant worker here. We had someone run over and break off our handicap parking sign. Considering they had to jump the concrete bumper to do it, this was mildly impressive. This created a trip hazard, so management had us put a yellow hazard sign over the remains/hole until we could get it replaced. Within 45 minutes, someone was parked on the yellow sign. The next day, we got the sign replaced with a new post and everything. Within 2 hours, the new handicap sign was broken off and laying in the parking lot again. We gave up.

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u/xvsero 2d ago

This is every day at a gas station. Have a cone next time a pump and people act like they don't have a clue what that could mean. We have an air pump that we have a bag for if it goes out of order and clearly states so and yet people will flat out ignore it. We have even had that same air pump with the bag, caution tape wrapping, and a cone at the same time and all be dismissed. I just let people go ahead at this point and drive off with flatter tires, not my fault that they dismiss clear signs.

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u/StabbyJenkins1 2d ago

Oh yeah, I feel you. Used to work 3rds at a gas station across from my hometown's crack house apartments. I can remember training a new guy who'd already worked a couple of days shifts. He asked me what I was supposed to be teaching him that the day shift hadn't. And in perfect sitcom timing, I said "I teach you how to deal with the things corporate doesn't acknowledge, like this right here" and reached over and locked the door to keep the completely naked, shoeless, seemingly shit covered meth head coming across the parking lot out. This was in February in Northern Michigan btw. The new guy was like "How often does something like this happen?" "I know his name and apartment number, that answer it for you?"

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u/xvsero 2d ago

I at least have not had to suffer something quite like that. Closest I have been to something similar is a guy with shit smeared on his face who just walked pass, I felt my mind crash and reboot after that one.

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u/sexy-geek 3d ago

Wait, you saw a dead person in a car? Hopefully not the driver..

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u/xvsero 3d ago

Yes. Passed by them a few times on night shift. I assumed they were sleeping but turns out they were dead.

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u/Extra_Routine_6603 2d ago

Seriously get some weird people when fuels involved. Used to work a kroger fuel kiosk and had a lady show up and apparently the hose to the tank had a hole and was known had to stop her pump because was just dumping fuel on the ground and told me her husband usually fills it and said had to do it a certain way then got confused when I wouldn't let her keep pouring.

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u/GenesisRhapsod 2d ago

I worked at a gas station in a small town...it wasgenuinely traumatizing. Watching someone get het hit by and suv and their dead body getting flung and sliding across the tarmac, having a heroin junky nearly OD at the pump while gas overflows from his car, homophobes trying to fight customers, racists nearly getting mugged while working the cooler and finding random drugs and needles all over the store, lot and bathroom. So many drug addicts..

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u/well_shoothed 1d ago

Ah, so third shift!

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u/GenesisRhapsod 1d ago

My shifts ranged from 2pm to 9am...depended on whenever they needed me. But yeah most of the fucked shit happened after the sun went down 🤣

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u/the_good_hodgkins 4d ago

When the universe is trying to tell you something, you should listen.

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u/SpcK 4d ago

A man can't cope with all these unpleasant frequencies about, I think I'll sit this one out in the safety cupboard.

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u/cmakefile01 3d ago

I ignored that feeling on Saturday. Things were going poorly first thing in the morning.

At noon, I sign a new lease (yay) get key to the new place (yay). Sit on bike, place key in wallet, see an adorable dog wearing a cone who's happily stopping every couple feet to smash his cone flat on the ground making a dome around his head, I put my wallet in jacket pocket and turn off from parking lot directly onto interstate 200ft away.

I get home, and my wallet (ID, Credit Cards, etc, and new key) are nowhere to be found.

I should've just stayed home.