this is what Americans call “just around the corner”
Buc-ees is serious business though.
I randomly went to one a few weeks ago thinking it was just a truck stop. I was not prepared for that.
I’ve never been. What’s it all about?
It’s a Wal Mart supercenter combined with a mall food court masquerading as a gas station. With about 250 fuel pumps outside. I dont think I’m exaggerating.
And it’s explicitly not a truck stop. No fueling pumps for big rigs.
Ever been to a walmart in a small town on saturday?
Where the only thing to do in town is go to the walmart…
Its that but with enough gas pumps to fuel the military
It’s just unnecessarily huge. I’ve never seen so many gas pumps in my life. Or so many toilets. It’s honestly absurd and made me feel existential dread. It’s like everything wrong with America all in one convenient pit stop. I couldn’t even enjoy the wall of jerky. Bathrooms were nice, though.
Also this bit from The Simpsons
581 miles? You can still see a Buc-Ees in the rearview at that distance.
I see you’re a flat-earther
Have you been to a Buc-Ees?
Hundreds of pumps. It’s a goddamned ocean of concrete and steel. You can use the main building as a shelter for a mid-sized town and have enough bathrooms. It’s a fucking department store serving as a gas station.
They’re goddamned massive.
Are they 10 miles tall?
No, you just underestimate the size of a buc-ees.
Buc-ee’s would have to be 220,000ft tall to be able to see it from 580 miles away.
Not accounting for refraction.
But … but why?
It’s a destination “gas station”. There’s a restaurant called Lamberts that sort of does the same thing.
Advertising. If they didn’t do that people wouldn’t have posted pictures of it on social media.
