Oh Sheetz!

Wheeling just got its first Sheetz store. It might be a little sad how excited everyone is about the opening of a new gas-station/convenience store/beer store/coffee shop. I went to the grocery store Saturday morning and I swear all the shoppers had a Sheetz coffee in their hand - including me. (It’s so shiny and new and red and easy!)The pumps have touchpad screens next to them so you can order and pay for your latte, sandwich, shmagel or shmuffin while you pump and pay for gas. Then run in to pick it up. The gas is CHEAP, the coffee is good and it doesn’t just have some beer, it has a huge walk-in cooler. It also replaces two ugly buildings of 70’s architecture, so the corner it’s on looks better.
Well, not everyone thinks so. It’s across the street from a historical Romanesque church. Driving up the road you see the bright glaring lights and red canopies of Sheetz, then the pretty church – that just spent a lot of money on a new terracotta tile roof.
Then there is the traffic. People actually put a petition together to ban the Sheetz from even being built at this location because of traffic concerns and tie-ups it will create.(forgetting the people it will employ or just the idea that it’s rare any new business goes into Wheeling and that it would be a good thing economically) It’s on the corner of a busy intersection, and it’s already happening. People turning left at the light with a green arrow, make the left turn then stop to continue turning left into the parking lot. All the cars waiting behind them to turn left sit there waiting. So people who have no concept of what bad traffic is might get upset. Overall I think it's a nice addition to the area and economy. I have now written at length about a gas station. Dear lord.