You’ll never know how hard it is to stave off a slow leak in one of your car’s tires until you have one, and it’s 9 a.m., and you don’t have a dollar in quarters, and there are two other people waiting to use the pump. That SUCKS. And yeah, there’s usually a car or two waiting to take advantage of Wawa’s free(!) air hose, but you can get a sandwich while you’re waiting that beats the hell out of Subway, and compared to some other chains we could name, Wawa is remarkably socially conscious, particularly in its level of compensation for employees. —Scott Harrell
This article appears in Best of The Bay 2016.
