I had gotten some AM PM tickets from the OC Fair a few weeks back. They were for 1 cent items. I had 4 of them, two for hot dogs, one for a cheeseburger, and one for a drink. I noticed that they were expiring at the end of the month, so i decided to use them. On the drive home from work, I pulled into their lot, parked and walked into the store portion of the gas station. I had gotten cash ahead of time so that I wouldn't be hit with their stupid ATM card fee they slap on EVERY debit card transaction.
On a side note, lower gas prices + ATM card fee = same gas prices as everybody else.
So I walk up to the counter, and inform the girl behind the register that I've got these cards, and would like to use them. She took them, and looked them over. She nodded and pointed to the warmer behind me. She informed me that they were out of cheeseburgers, but I could use the rest of them. I took them back and walked over to the fountain drink machine area. I looked at the card, and it said 22 oz. I looked at the signs over the cups, and saw 20 oz. I looked on the other size cups, and there was no 22 oz. Only by pulling the 20 oz cup out, did I see 22 oz printed on the cup. Had I been robbed of 2 ounces? Do they just print that on the cup to make you think it's bigger? Possible shenanigans here. Why do they do that? I filled it with some pomegranate thing. I walked over to the warmer. It was a small glass box on a counter, heat lights at the top, rack beneath, I grabbed two regular hot dogs out of the bottom of the rack. Pre-packed, hot dogs in their own baggies. I noticed a condiment station to the right of the hot-box. As I pulled the hot dogs out, I noticed they were quite hot. I stacked them, grabbed my drink and quickly walked up to the register. She pulled out some cheat sheets to ring up my items.
My total bill came to twenty three cents. Thank you Orange county Fair tickets.
Overall, the hot dog was nothing special. It was virtually identical to the ones I get at the grocery store and cook myself. If we're dead set on convenience store food, I prefer the 7-11 rolly-aparatus they've got. They pull the dog out and put it on a bun right there when you ask for it. Seems somewhat better than the pre-packaged situation they've got going on here. The drink was okay. The girl behind the counter was nice. read more