Do the 7-11 clerks in other nations have the same attitude?
Not in my experience, they're mostly quite pleasant. You're more likely to strike an Apu-like guy who owns the franchise and is perhaps slightly crazed by spending every waking hour there. (We don't call them "clerks" here either, we call them shop assistants...a clerk is someone who does clerical work, duh!)
I love the BP convenience stores in the Netherlands. Racks of fresh pastries! Hard-boiled eggs in clever packaging! Interesting sandwiches which actually appear fresh and well-made!
Racks of fresh pastries! Interesting sandwiches which actually appear fresh and well-made!
...And which contain absurdly high levels of benzole! (Don't eat bread bought at a filling station if you can help it. It's not healthy).
Gus, I can sympathise. As can my son, one of whose favourite expressions is, "I want it not!"
I was astonished that
of all the places
to have 7-11s (which have a vaguely sketchy connotation to me, as opposed to the Circle-K) in Europe, they're in the cleanest, most futuristic part-- Scandinavia. Talk about dissonance. Unfortunately, they didn't have a soda fountain or slurpee machines, which means they are not real 7-11s.
We don't have 7-11 here in Lancaster, we have Turkey Hill. Which has better coffee and really good iced tea, but is otherwise indistinguishable. There's one about a block from my dorm, which will be handy at 2 AM the day before midterms.
Do you have WaWa there, Holli?
Not that I've seen. We have a Waffle House with karaoke, though.
I've only seen WaWa south of the Potomac. I'd like to stop there because they usually have the cheapest gas/petrol, but Hubs makes too many jokes on the name.
(EtF Capitalization)
Hmm, I remember WaWa from my days at Penn, so they're not just south
of the Potomac. Actually, now that I think about it, there's one up the
street from the Farmer's Market near the Philadelphia Convention center.
(Only really useful on Sundays when the market is closed)
Yeah, we had the Wa in New Jersey too.