Instead, the Chevy's rear end flirted around and fell off the pump island on the station side.

At the pump island, I opened the water faucet partway and waited while Orson drank his fill.

The action at the pump islands is a far away grumble.

There were two pump islands and a small parking area, and at the side a telephone he'd checked, and it had been working last time he came by.

Two cars were tanking up at the pump island out front, with a heavy bass line booming from a little Toyota.

Biggins's directions led me to a small independent service station with a single pump island and a tow truck parked at the rear.

Pike cut into the Chevron station at the bottom of the ramp, wheeling around the pump islands and office, then jammed to a stop.

The pump island's fluorescents made the car into a garish white-over-purple burgundy shade.

It was used for storage for many years, with its pump islands remaining as well as its original gasoline station exterior, eventually decaying to an extreme state of disrepair.

I flipped over the tape, turned up the volume, and drove around to one of the pump islands of the gas station.