Used Needles for the first and second times on a trip over past few days. Kinda eerie, parking under that big sign.
Especially when you look straight up through the sunroof window..... looks like a guillotine.
A bit disconcerting, with that thing hanging over the car.
While I was charging, some bedraggled homeless-looking guy, smoking a nearly-spent cigarette, and looking like he'd not bathed in a month or more, comes over and begins asking me questions. Lots of questions. All the usual ones. How long does it take to charge, how much does that car cost, how fast does it go, etc. I figured I could be ice cold with him or just friendly and enthusiastic, and I chose the latter. Tried to sell him on the whole concept of Tesla. Educated him about the batteries. He knew about the Gigafactory. After a while he got tired of hearing about how cool the car was and he left.
Ok, here is the weird thing. I sat there and charged for another half hour. Then I drove on to the next supercharger, at Kingman, AZ, which is in the parking lot of a Carl's Jr.
Guess who is leaning by the wall of the Carl's Jr, right next to a pay-phone attached to the wall. Same effing guy. Smoking a cigarette. Leaned against that wall and watched me the whole time I charged.
Twilight Zone, man.