7/11 Everywhere

I remember life without 7/11. Most of the last century. 1927. The company was found in Irving Texas as Southland Grocery Store providing the widespread citizens of that slave state with a convenient place to buy milk, eggs, and other sundries. The name changed to 7/11 to promote the 7am-11pm hours. Not the old dice call for a winning toss of '7 come 11'.

In Thailand 7/11s are everywhere, having supplanted the old family stores. The chains sell snacks and sodas as well as mass production staples. My kids love 7.

Out in Montauk the 7/11 on the highway going out of town is hyped as the busiest 7/11 in the USA. It offers the same as any 7/11 in the world only more than most

I went in the other day for a can of ginger ale. Every soda was in a plastic bottle. I bought nothing, although back when I lived in Thailand I bought beer. It remains the healthiest thing in the stores.

7/11.

More omnipresent than God, except for atheists.

7/11 Uprising

Slave uprisings was a great fear of the pre-bellum South. Plantation masters were vigilant against any uppityness from their workers. Instigators were severely punished by the overseers with whippings, brandings, and hangings, yet three major armed insurrections occurred in the early 1800s with the goal of fleeing the Deep South for Haiti, which had successfully overthrown its French Creole hierarchy. Whites in the South went to sleep with an eye open and a gun at their side. Blacks muttered threats of poisoning their masters, who comprised a very small percentage of the whites below the Mason-Dixon line. I understand their anger at their enslavers, but cannot condone killing. I can approve of underpaid fast food workers dosing all the GOP voters with rancid burgers, fries, and chicken tomorrow morning to prevent them from voting for Mitt Romney. So c'mon workers at 7/11, KFC, Mickey Ds, and BK, give the GOP a case of the runs. It's your patriotic duty and hell you might even get a raise for helping the fat GOP white men losing some weight. It's for their own good.