7-11. Ugh. When I was but a wee lad, I used to love you, particularly your location on Bennetts Mills Rd. in Jackson. I would drink a Dr. Pepper Big Gulp and play Super Mario Bros. until the cows came home, so to speak. I never tired of you. I was, in fact, your devoted servant.
Then, a girl came along and introduced me to Wawa. I terminated my indenture, immediately moved on to greener pastures, and I never looked back.
7-11 coffee sucks, and the coffee here lives fully up to my expectations. The proprietors also cheap out on the flavoring in the Slurpee machine, so if you go that route, you're going to end up with more of a sno-cone than anything else. The hot dogs, if available at all, always look to have been made yesterday, and the cigarettes are insanely expensive (unless you buy two packs, in which case they sell them to you at the state minimum).
The only two things this place has going for it are the attached gas station, a Citgo, which tries to stay competetive, pricewise, with the Wawa just up the road, and the fact that it is comparatively easy to get in and out of at busy times of day. There's a dump not too far away, and on a humid summer morning, that's what this place smells like, which seems quite appropriate. read more