7-Eleven

It’s a Seven Eleven like any others. Came here on our way to the Monterey Pier to go Fishing and Crabbing.

I have been shopping here for about 17 years and most of that time I have been very happy with everything about the store. It’s a 7 – 11, they’re always open, generally the people are nice and they have a nice variety of things people need.
However, I was just told by the cashier that the store policy now is they have to give you a bag for your beer, for which you have to pay 25 cents, whether you want it or not. This is not directly related to the Monterey plastic bag ban. When that happened, I contacted the city and asked that they communicate with city vendors about the false notion they all seemed to have about some vague local or state law requiring bags for alcohol purchases. There is no such law, and the city agreed to communicate with everyone about it, and they did. So now most vendors in Monterey won’t force you to leave the store with your beer in a bag. This is particularly important now that you have to pay for your bags.
Well this particular 7 – 11 apparently doesn’t care about the law, they seem to have some moral objection to anyone actually seeing a six pack of beer outside of its plain brown wrapper. God forbid some child see a can of beer, they’ll turn into a serial killer or something, I guess. So I will be shopping at one of the many, many other vendors in the area that would be more than happy to sell me beer and not insult my moral fiber while making me pay for the privilege.

The bad thing is the Icee machine. The thing is always broken. We live up the hill a few blocks and on a hot day we love to come down and get our Squishee fix (I love the Simpson’s) and when I get here and 3 of the four «broken» lights are flashing I am just angry. So angry that I have to go to the ice cream freezer and get a drumstick.