BP

Decent gas station. As a Westmont resident and frequent driver, I’ve sure given them enough $$. Today I noticed they now have televisions at each gas pump. Most of the televisions were showing the weather forecast. So I got to pump gas in the cold and listen to the weatherman tell me it’s cold outside. Exciting! One small warning about getting out of this gas station: it’s located at the bottom of a slight hill, making it a bit hard to see oncoming traffic from the east.

Is a gas station really worth a review? And a 3 star to boost? You betcha, and you wanna know why? So you don’t have to do what I did.
My gaslight came on a good 15 miles back and I was driving on the I-​55, a new route per the ever trusted GoogleMaps because yours truly still can’t figure which way is North or South let alone East or West yet. It was a completely new experience. Not the E light coming on in the car, oh no no no. Gas price inflation, do you remember that? My car coasted everywhere on that light. Driving this new route, the interstates and I are BFFs.
Back to the I-​55, I was lost. So lost driving around in GOD only knows where (this will be funny in a month.) Amidst million dollar homes, long stretches of open roadway and NO. Repeat, NO gas stations in sight. Holy shit, I’m going to get stranded in the middle of effing nowhere and have to hoof it into some unknown town after how many miles trying to cipher gasoline. Sweet jesus, help a girl out.
I pulled off on a Burr Ridge (I think…) exit and busted out the crackberry on a mad search in finding a local gas station. Nada, I pulled off on the wrong side of the highway naturally and drove. And drove and then finally pulled into a damn parking lot of a grocery store to ask for directions because where the hell is a gas station? Certainly not near Brookhaven Grocery that’s for sure.
Okay, here’s something I do know. Toyota makes a damn fine car that must have more than a hidden tank for fuel because I drove for what seemed like more than the allotted back up fuel period and finally at the recommendation of someone back in moneyville, managed to get to BP and the car didn’t protest.
Is this an alright BP, who knows but it certainly wasn’t «just up the road.» It was a state away. Okay not a state but when you’re sweating through your shirt, battling Google maps, eyeing that bright orange E light with open roadways just up the road feels like you’re crossing country borders.
All in all, I made it. Fueled up and hit the road. Thanks BP for keeping your prices low in Westmont a town I now know how to maneuver through!