thread for sketchy convenience stores

There’s a gas station near me that peddles suspicious “legal” narcotics, ED pills, etc from the glassed-in booth. Everyone who works there seems on the level but there’s a very Blade Runner/“welcome to the end of the world, pal” energy to the goods on display. This is in Baltimore County, Maryland.

When I lived in Austin, Texas, I worked in south Austin near the airport and had to navigate a stretch of highway to get to the express tolled road north to get home. That highway was always under construction and the area felt like it was on the skids in a particular way. One day I went to a convenience store/gas station (I can’t remember what for) and while I can’t remember the scene specifically there was a very real sense that anything could happen, of anarchy. I was extremely aware of everything at all times just on general principle.

Separately:
We could talk about 7/11s overall, but that’s a different thread maybe.

Regarding the Texas memory - that was from 2012/2013.

A lot in Oakland are run by Yemenis - I haven't noticed anything all that sketchy except for khat chewing (which is legal, as far as I know), and the owner by my old apartment showed me a revolver he kept in a small wooden box

Oh yeah, tons of herbal boner pills and stuff but I'm not sure anyone actually buys those