Job security. I thought that is their job and what they get paid for. How hard is it to go spray some disinfectant all over the shower, sink toilet, and floor and use some windex and towel to clean a mirror. I will pull out my trunk monkey next time to clean after my next shower. LOL
TA just raised shower prices really?
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You could always try this trick/scam: I was at a TA and the kiosk wouldn't take my card. Neither the bar code or the magnetic stripe would work. Sometimes those kiosks are just dead and don't work. So I went to the fuel desk and after I got marched back to the kiosk to be instructed how to use it (by the way, isn't that the worst? Let's assume I'm completely ignorant for a second.) the clerk couldn't get it to work either. So we go back to the fuel desk and they give me a free pass. They don't call up my account on the network or even ask for a receipt, they just comp you if the kiosk is down.
(I'm not saying you could unplug the kiosk and report it's "acting funny,,, cause that would be wrong. Why you laughing?)
There's a PA convenience store I won't use anymore (and I sing their praises all the time, and I'm referring to a specific individual location) because some genius manager decided that 2-4 am was the perfect time to purge & clean ALL the coffee machines! You stop in, you need your wakey-wakey juice only to find they don't have ANY?!? I could BUY a Keurig at Walmart, take it to the bathroom (ick?) plug it in and have a cup in 20 minutes tops, how can you have ALL your coffee machines down for a period of 2 hours overnight?!?TokyoJoe Thanks this. -
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Also who needs 2 showers a day? Besides the fact you get two ultra credits that can be used for 2 showers a day if needed. Not sure where some people have gotten their information.
I should also probably note that I'm just my husband's ride along. I don't drive at the moment, maybe someday. So all those points and ultra credits are from him.Last edited: May 14, 2019
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I had 2 free showers yesterday at Love's and only got 40 gallons. Then I parked for free at TA. I top off the tanks at Love's. Might as well get another shower, since it was later in the day. Loves give you 2 showers a day
I still think is amazing how TA wanted more people to us them I guess but changed their driver rewards to make it more difficult. I do what they don't want now. Fuel at Love's and park for free at TA if I have to.
I'm saving money because I don't pay for much parking anymore at TA/Petro. Loves has free parking, I used paid parking more in the past because if I fueled at TA/Petro at end of the day. You don't have any option if the free parking is full. Loves I fuel more in afternoon get my shower. Then I can park at anyplace that has FREE parking available. Just like I did yesterday and parking for free now at TA instead of fueling and parking at TATokyoJoe Thanks this. -
Geesh, I would rather pay for a shower than just buy 60 gallons at a time. It sounds like everything has changed since I quit running the lower 48, I never heard of reserved parking, and paid parking was justinlimited places, places I usually didn't want to be to start with. I didn't deal with loves much, or pilots much because they didn't see fit to have a restaurant. I was never a TA fan, but did like petros, before they became one, I liked the rip Griffins before they became TA's too.
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Remember the Rip Griffin by San Antonio, they had guy driving a big limo around the parking to give drives ride to truck stop. Now it's the TA
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I was in that Rip not long after the city had outlawed smoking. It was late at night and I had ordered but hadn't recieved my food yet. I ask the waitress for an ash tray and she told me it was against the law to smoke. I told her too cancel my order, the town didn't need any business from me. She dumped out the bowl that held the creamers and told me to use it. lol
I ask what the chances of getting busted was, and she said none, this is where the police comes to smoke and drink coffee. lolRockinChair Thanks this. -
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