“I locked my keys in my truck “

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The magnet boxes always fall off

use a zip tie or a bread twist tie . or a small caribiner or something .

 

I must just be old, have always laced a key in my boot laces. Won't work for the flip-flop crowd.

 

Yup, the craziest part of this story is that he actually found a parking spot there lol. I've never seen one there even in the middle of the day.

Here's a couple of my "favorite" regulars:
-bearded guy with glasses that hot me up almost every time I was getting fuel in Amarillo. He was usually at the Pilot or Petro on Lakeside, claiming he needed money to get his car out of impound

-the people in the empty lot near the Pilot in Boron on CA58. They were always holding a sign saying they were out of gas and had a baby in the car. The door would usually be open with a blanket over the car seat. If it was real, then it was deader than fried chicken out there in the summer.

 

Call 911 and tell them a baby is locked in the car and see how fast they haul ### when the cops show up.

 

Not gonna lie, the words "I think it would be a good idea to park overnight at the Charlotte Love's" have never passed from my lips.

Bill's ain't terrible. It's a dump, but they're good people. I've stopped there a couple times and never been hassled. There's a couple ok spots around town, mostly curb parking near shippers. Fortunately for me, it's 3 hrs to my home 20, so it's extremely rare I'd need to overnight there. I usually get in and get right out if I need to go there.

@blairandgretchen you're too good a dude to get involved with trash like that. What you need is a good war face. You pull the curtain back with that and nothing else on but your underwear and a roofing axe, they move on. Or so I've heard.

The best hard luck panhandle I ever got was at one of the stops east of SA TX. Dude walked up at the fuel island wanting a couple bucks so he could go to the urgent care and get a stab wound tended to. Even lifted his shirt to show off his bloody, nasty bandage. All I could do was laugh at him. He got mad and walked off. He shoulda got an academy award for that pitch.

 

Man, I spent many a liberty call in places like the Philippines and other dodgy places to do more than blank stare them in the eye and keep movin. But when they wake you up it is a whole other ball of fun. Dude in Idaho was banging on door trying to give out books (bibles maybe or some other literature) not that I can’t use a good bit of the lord in my life but not at that point and time lol. My dog was not happy and scared the shizzle out of him. He did not knock again.

 

lawd jesus bills restrooms are nasty

 

Ive never been in the bathroom there however, I hear the food is very good though! I know a lot of troopers eat there lunch there!!

 

ik the fuel side bath room is trash. heard other side is ok