So many job openings for care workers. Why can't I be an "I-don't-care worker"? Just get paid to sit somewhere manning a desk and just not giving a fukk about anything, Bernard Black-style... that's pretty much the dream.
The other day I was driving some brit folk around and one of the ladies commented how she thought it was real neat that our gas stations were such social places, with pretty much every one of them having a cafe alongside the station shop. Didn't pay much attention to it then, but then I considered it and started wondering, is that something that's rare in the rest of the world? Where a place that people stop to pour gas or buy snacks for the road can sit down and have a cup of whatever before continuing their trip. Or is almost ritual coffee drinking not that big of a deal in the rest of the world and just something we got from the ottomans?
In Australia we have plenty of cars, but a stinky petrol station reeking of gasoline fumes is the last place anyone would want to socialize. There might be a convenience store there, but it's the sort of place where you get in and get out ASAP.
In my experience there are often little cafes attached to
gas stations service stations servos in addition to the ubiquitous convenience store, sometimes even with booths and everything.
Honestly I think basically every large, chain servo has a cafe these days... and out on the
highfreeway the rest stop servos will sometimes have entire foodcourts accompanying them, complete with McDonald's playgrounds and all that shit.
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