The Good:
I drove almost an hour to get to Rudy's before I checked what time the store closed, so I ended up getting there literally 5 minutes, maybe even less than that, before they closed BUT the cashiers were very kind & let me look around, buy some scratch offs, etc. & didn't make me rush & assured me that they didn't mind, which was very kind of them, especially when they easily could've just kicked me out & drive a very long way back upset, knowing my mistake (not checking the time) wasted two hours of my life & no scratch off's lol
The Bad:
BUT, although they were great cashiers/employees & super kind, I feel like I gotta share some pretty significant things here that (at least in my opinion) should be shared...
As nice as they were, the staff literally knew NOTHING about the stores history (which is literally covering the walls, like cool news articles framed, winning tickets, & just the basic things that make the "#1 lottery ticket selling" store in Texas lol), and even less about scratch offs they sell or scratch offs in general... which was very frustrating & confusing lol like why would they want to work their over other places exactly the same (minus the history) & more importantly, why would the store hire someone who doesn't have any knowledge about the store's history and literal namesake/what the place is known for & what the walls (inside AND outside) are COVERED in? Idk, that disappointed me as a scratch off enthusiast who traveled all the way there because of the history & lore haha
Other than that (pretty reasonable I think lol) complaint, the store was very clean, cool ambiance (at least at night from an outside viewpoint & they walls with old news articles about all the winning tickets bought there & the rows of all winning tickets people had purchased there lol), & even they even had their own souvenirs, which I thought was pretty cool! read more