Gas station attendants work with the low end of society on a regular basis. They sell a lot of cigarettes and tobacco, beer, and lottery tickets to people that can't pay their own rent or utilities. Certainly not all the customers are that way, but a high percentage are. If I have a pump not print the receipt, I just take a photo of the pump with the display of gallons and the total price and I am done. I try hard not to go inside, but I need to pee I certainly go it. I see the same thing from San Diego, California to northern Maine and in the Florida Keys.
It does not matter what part of the country I travel to, the gas station - convenience store always has the same people in it. The plants and wildlife may be very different, but the people are the same.
The cranes in Jupiter, FL were not something I ever see at home.