I have talked about my time working at 7-Eleven in the summer between high school and college. 7-Eleven is a disgusting job!!! I just wanted it because it’s fun to go to 7-Eleven and get Slurpee’s. But it’s definitely NOT fun cleaning up after people getting Slurpee’s because they make a mess!!! I didn’t know that BEGORE I started working there and I didn’t know how ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING it would be making 40 parts of coffee at 6 o’clock in the morning when you are hung over after a friend’s graduation party!
Something I haven’t written about but I have been thinking about it and I have to talk about is this:
I remember when I was working there and a sales rep came in for a meeting with the woman who owned the store. She had a franchise. He put a box of cow tails on the register’s counter:
Cow Tales had just come out or something, it was the summer of 2000 right when matchbox 20s Bent CD came out!
A little girl came in, probably about seven or eight years old and she got her own small Slurpee. She was so proud of herself and she put a fistful of change on the counter. It was one of those moments when 7-Rleven gets really busy. So there was a long line behind her.
She glanced at the line and began to whimper. I calmed her down by saying “It’s all right, honey.” and I counted it out the change and slid the money for the Slurpee toward the register and the leftover money I slid to her and told her to put it in her pocket. She took the change and put it in your pocket and smiled at me and I told her to have a good day and to enjoy her Slurpee!
My Mom just had her birthday and she was given Cow Tales she wasn’t a fan. I told her that I will take them! They are sitting on the desk under my TV and today I had two of them.
My Mom told me they were disgusting and I corrected her by saying that they are nostalgic because I thought of that little girl the whole time I ate them! I recounted that story to Sean today and he said, “That’s a great story, Mom, but they are disgusting!”
I told my Mom and Sean that they are STILL nostalgic for me! I only have a few more left to eat but I’m not sure that I will buy them again.