581 miles? You can still see a Buc-Ees in the rearview at that distance.
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I see you're a flat-earther
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.
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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.
Hundreds of pumps And no open ones because everyone parks and sits there while they go inside
Yeah, sadly, it seems no matter how ample the parking, people will still just take a pump.
I kinda get it, but at this point, we should all know better. Leave one person behind to pump and park, you're going to be in the building for awhile just trying to get snacks and get checked out. I've never seen our local less than packed inside.
Are they 10 miles tall?
Maybe
god i love new york
Maybe by car it's just around the corner, but walking it's 581 miles.
“I would walk 581 miles, and I would walk 581 more” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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 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.
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 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.
It’s good advertising. People see the funny billboard and snap a pic for social media.
But ... but why?
Advertising. If they didn't do that people wouldn't have posted pictures of it on social media.
It's a destination "gas station". There's a restaurant called Lamberts that sort of does the same thing.
I'm not even sure what a "destination gas station" means. I see some big ones on our road trips, and all I ever do is stop at whatever one has a reasonable price, then take off.
Who are these for?
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There's one in Arizona heading north between Phoenix and Tucson that says 951 miles behind you.
Wall Drugs Store, South Dakota
When my family went to see Mount Rushmore, I didn't know what Wall Drugs was. That changed as soon as we hit the state line. Those guys must have more billboards than Alexander Shunnarah.
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"You will soon enter the state of Texas. Have you considered not doing that?"
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Posting advertising today I see
this is what Americans call "just around the corner"
Just an average commute.
Just gonna make a quick pit-stop
Aaaaaand we're broke... But I got 4 pairs of pajamas, 10 hats, 7 shirts, and 32 bandanas all with cartoon beavers on them. I also got us 14lbs of our favorite jerky, 6lbs of the jerky we always forget we don't like, and 8 different kinds of barbecue sandwiches and wraps. And some Beaver Nuggets.
If everything goes according to plan, we should have enough diarrhea and constipation to wreck every Pilot bathroom from here to El Paso
This guy Buc-ee's ☝️
No coolers, pie fillings, home decor, or kolaches? You didn't buy a rocking chair or a grill while you were there? Are you sure it was even Buc-ees?
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Beavery
Bucc-ee's is love, Bucc-ee's is life. The curse is real. I passed one without stopping and 15 minutes later, a rock shattered my windshield.
Those beaver nuggets are the real deal.
That's not cocky, you're just in the middle of fuck-all nowhere. That Bucees's was the last gas station and you missed it.
I'd never heard of Buc-ees, and now I see that's because they're only in Texas. The only time I've been there, besides in an airport for a layover, was in 2014 when I drove on the 40 through Amarillo. According to Google maps, there is a (closed) Bucc-ees on the 40, but it looks like it was built very recently as it isn't there in 2023, the latest images on there.
They're spreading to states near Texas. Like a cancer that is, admittedly, nicer than most rest stops but is still just some fucking brand that reminds you the average person is a programmed chimp for making any kind of deal out of them.
I looked up some pictures of them and they are admittedly a spectacle, unmistakably American.
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Um, there's way more than just Texas.
They're also in AL, CO, FL, GA, KY, MO, SC, and TN
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Because America is so expansive the next Buc-ees in that direction is probably 800 miles away.
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