Space Age Fuel – Main & Division

This place is on my commute, and to be fair, the gas is competitively priced. Unfortunately this place is awful. I noticed that something was a little… Off… the first time I visited. There was a cone in front of one of the pumps so I stopped at the pump behind it assuming it was under repair. The guy working the pumps told me I had to go inside to pay, annoying, but. Ok. That’s when it all went south. There is a sign that says, «we except EBT» OK, but they don’t actually sell food, there’s a weird isle with rice and beans and such, I assume that’s what they are selling for EBT customers? It all felt pretty sketchy. I walked to the soda machine and picked up a cup, put it under the ice dispenser and, nothing. The man at the register explained they were out of ice. Not, let me get some ice, just, there’s no ice in the machine, like «we are too lazy to put up a sign, the machine has no ice, Welcome to space age where expectations are for ass holes»
I said, Uhh… ok, and put the cup back in the dispenser. Then I waited in horror while the man at the counter tried to up sell a group of kids buying sodas on every piece of nonsense in the store. Finely it was my turn, my gas had finished pumping some time ago, but having watched the man at the counter fumble with the register for the past 5 minutes, I knew I was in for a new nightmare. The transaction went as expected, the man at the register seemed to be having trouble, the man who was running the pump came in and they exchanged angry words in some middle eastern tongue, then the man tried to upsell me some candy. At this point I felt like I was on some kind of prank show, I held a fake smile as I extended my debit card.
FInely my transaction was complete. I walked back out to my car. But it was not at the pump Id started at, it was beyond the second pump. I asked my confused wife what had happened. She explained that the man had decided the car needed to move because I was taking so long, moved the cone in front of the pump that was in front of my car, and tried shoving it out of the way, my wife had said «Hey, I could like… start the car and put it in drive and move it… or whatever» Apparently the man had agreed, and she had moved the car to make room for the non existent customers that were all jockeying for position behind her.
That was my first and last experience at this gas station, I really hope it goes out of business so we can get a functional gas station in its place.
I don’t usually get this ranty about a place, but it makes me mad that this horrible business is taking up space in what could be a convenient gas station

This gas station has homemade baklava made by the owner’s nephew. When I took the picture I only had one bite left sorry! They also had the cheapest gas we found today :-) The store has lots of Arab groceries, treats and male enhancement products right at the cash register (don’t try to avoid looking at all the «packages»…cause it’s impossible.) Thank you Joseph for giving us a tour of your sore