7-Eleven

7-​Eleven is a convenience store that is found literally everywhere. This company has been around since the ‘20s, and they offer packaged deli sandwiches, hot dogs, nachos, taquitos, donuts/​pastries, candies/​chocolates, slurpees/​coffee/​fountain/​alcoholic beverages, lottery tickets, and basic grocery needs. I like this particular 7-​Eleven as it is bright and very clean, and they keep everything nice and tidy. I came here to check out their new Sour Patch slurpee (watermelon-​flavored), which was pretty sweet and sour! Their grillers also had a larger variety of hot dogs (bacon-​wrapped!) and freshly-​cooked taquitos. One of the employees, Pravesh, had a great sense of humor and was very helpful, and check-​out was a breeze. Whenever you get a craving for the munchies or are just plain thirsty in the middle of the night, 7-​Eleven will be there for you! ‘Oh, thank heaven for 7-​Eleven’ :D
+Sour Patch watermeleon slurpee: D
+larger selection of hot food
+clean and bright: D
+ask for Pravesh: D

I’m a fairly frequent 7 – 11 customer. I would venture to say that I have stopped in a 7 – 11 many hundreds of times. I generally like them. And I do like 7 – 11 coffee.
This 7 – 11 is just okay. It’s one of two 7 – 11’s that are close to me.
Not that clean and the staff is a bit odd. I always feel like they’re watching to see if I steal something, which is weird. In the morning, they sometimes station a woman at the corner by the hot dogs to have a view of everyone (so they don’t steal?).
Strange layout — coffee station is on other side of counter from soda/​slurpee station so I have to walk over with my hot coffee to drop a few ice cubes in and cool it down.
Often times they are out of one coffee or another and you play around with the different push-​thermoses to find one with coffee in it.

Let’s see… what can you say about a 7 – 11? They’re all pretty much the same, plus or minus a certain degree of junkies messing up the bathroom or creepy transients loitering outside. Thankfully, this one is on the lighter end of that spectrum! It’s in an easily-​accessible spot off the Little River Turnpike, it has plenty of space in the parking lot, and it has those tiny little mini-​powdered-​donuts that my grandmother has a shine for. It’s relatively clean and seems to be crazy-​person-​free. At least when I was here anyway.
HEY, no jokes about how *I’M* a crazy person!!! ;D