7-Eleven

My son Malachai and I popped into the Tigard 7 – 11 on Free Slurpee day. It wasn’t as busy as you might have expected, there was no mob of angry Slurpee seekers and no crazy line. There was lots of Slurpee traffic though. There were people popping into cars in the parking lot each with a Slurpee in hand and a steady stream of people coming in go snag a free slurp.
I’d chatted so briefly with a friendly cashier on the way in, letting her know we were just there for the free Slurpeeeee’s. She smiled and waved us in. Back at the Slurpee machine, there wasn’t a line so to speak, just a frazzled dad trying his best to napkin up a Slurpee disaster. An employee popped out of the back and happily helped him clean it up with a nice big rag.
Within 30 seconds of entering the store, we were creating our Slurpee perfection. I went with coke layered under Mango with Lemon on the top! I showed Malachai how to fill up his Slurpee all the way to the top of the lid! Ahhhh sharing the secrets of life with our babies, nothing is more fulfilling.
As luck would have it, the only person in line in front of me was counting pennies. I asked the cashier if they were scanning Slurpee’s, or if we were free to go, she gestured that I should wait, and then without missing a beat, she continued chatting with the customer she was helping, and logged into the other registered, punched a couple buttons and we wer4 good to go.
The store was running all sorts of other specials too, like .99 ¼ sausages, as advertised by a ton of printed signs that we didn’t really notice until we got into the car. Mali said he’d go in and get us a couple dogs. I didnt want to use a credit card for $ 2 so we went throught the car and came up with the two bucks! Win!
He came back to the car nearly in tears. Someone had bumped into him and knocked one of them out of his hand. That sweet boy handed me the other and said it was fine, he didn’t need one.
I asked him if he’d told the cashier and he said that he had and that she had said she was sorry. «Well», I said to him, «Lets find another dollar!». We didn’t find another dollar, so I grabbed that credit card and we headed inside. Once inside, i asked the cashier (not the one from earlier, but the one that cleaned up the Slurpee mess), if my son had mentioned that he dropped his hot dog. She said not to her, but said shed grab him a new one right now.
She saw his face, that probably showed signs of recent tears and told him all he had to do was say something to somebod and get a new one. He told her he’d tried, and she said she’d told the wrong person. She gave him a new one and like magic, everything was okay in his world again.
WOOOT WOOOT $ 2 lunch and no credit card swiping! The downside, my tummy made me pay dearly for that $ 2 lunch later on.

First time coming to this location and the employee was GREAT. Super nice guy!
Thank you for the scratch it pick and free taquito