Grass ’N’ Go
Turn off engine. Lift nozzle. Come inside and see our blunts, pipes, and papers.
Cover Story
The Fort Dupont BP Amoco pumps out Skittles, Utz Red Hot potato chips, and Grandma’s cookies 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Customers often fill their grumbling stomachs with the sugar and fat before they even make it off the lot.
This BP Amoco’s inventory pretty much begins and ends with junk food. Patrons looking to take the edge off of anything more than their hunger are out of luck.
It doesn’t carry the array of items that junkies and weedheads can find at many neighboring stations. Any tobacco product that can be split down its spine, and eviscerated, and have its entrails replaced with chronic will never see the light emanating from the station’s canopy of fluorescent bulbs.
The unpleasant task of turning away drug-paraphernalia seekers falls to Fort Dupont BP Amoco cashier Ann Stanfield.
“Anything you can think of, they’ve called me,” says Stanfield of patrons seeking paraphernalia. “They spit at the window. They say, ‘Is this a religious gas station?’ They say, ‘Are y’all stupid, are you ignorant? Do you know how much money you could be making?’”
Because Stanfield doesn’t have the selection of goodies they expect, weedheads cuss her out, call her out of her name, and even accuse her of holding out on them.
“You tell ’em no, and they look around like you’re lying—just looking,” says Stanfield, imitating the folks who push their faces to the plexiglass and scan the booth’s interior for hidden smoking materials.... Continued 
Issue of Jan. 21 - 27, 2005
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