Thursday, July 09, 2009

Free Slurpees But Not For You

Sometimes we get so pissed that there's not a 7-Eleven convenience store here in Jacksonville. Saturday will be one of those days because every July 11th, 7-Eleven stores across the country celebrate their birthday by giving away free Slurpees. This year the convenience store chain turns 82, and about 5 million icy beverages will be handed out at participating locations. The company is touting this as the "biggest Slurpee giveaway ever." In addition, the Slurpee cups will come with codes that can be redeemed for $7.11 lawn seats to select Live Nation shows. But none for us, we'll have to drive to the closest 7-eleven in Ormond Beach if we want our free beverage. Boo!!!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

7-11's just don't have that same ethnic flavor like our Local Bodega's do.

gojeffrey said...

I never understood why there are no 7-11's in Jacksonville. Seriously. WTF is up with that?

Unknown said...

Well I'll have one for you guys out here in Cali. Just don't hate :)

Unknown said...

gojeffrey, it's because gate gas stations (crappy dumps) bought them all out. Gate is owned by Mayor peytons daddy.
So now, no we get no slurpees, but we get 3 week old sandwiches!

Susan Cooper Eastman said...

Jiffy?

Bryan said...

I grew up 2 blocks from the one in Riverside waaay back in the day. My friends and I would spend our allowance on coke slurpees and take turns feeding the Nintendo Playchoice-10 they had. Death to Gate for driving them out of the JAX market!

Anonymous said...

No squeezin'the Ja-hoooos!...(Encino Man)

Anonymous said...

There were plenty of 7-11's but the Koreans bought them all when the company went bankrupt 20+ years ago.