Convenience Store Rules

[Jester]

When you pull up to a dark gas station with no lights on inside.....geee...we might be closed! If you reef on the door, I'll laugh at you. However, if you keep reefing or start "Yoo hoo"ing or hanging around waiting (waiting for what, me to just let you in? whatever) I WILL call the cops.

Something similar actually happened to me once.

For 18 months in 1998 and 1999, I traveled the U.S., visiting friends, family, and places I just wanted to go. During this time, I dropped in to the Minneapolis area to visit a friend. Having never even been to the state of Minnesota at all, I managed to get a little lost, despite my normally excellent sense of direction/navigational skills. To double check where I was, I pulled over at a corner gas station which happened to be closed. NOT to ask them where I was or where my destination was, as they were OBVIOUSLY closed, but (a) to be able to stop and read my damn map, and (b) to be able to have light to read aforementioned map.

Not a couple minutes after I did this, there are flashing red and blue lights behind me. Apparently there had been some robberies in the area, and the officer figured that my vehicle pulling up to a closed gas station was "suspicious." It made for an interesting welcome to The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, let me tell you.