Hard to say. The details are a little foggy considering it was four decades ago. I’m sure it was a lot though. I doubt I was playing with any skill.
Au contraire. Convenience stores in Japan are totally AWESOME. They have 99% of life’s necessities, from underwear to good food, clean, polite. It’s almost worth a trip to Japan just to experience the convenience stores there.
And convenience stores in much of Asia are almost as good.
As a kid in the town I grew up in we had an Open Pantry store. Not only did it have a crazy huge candy aisle for whatever reason the magazine distribution guy would stock the store with different comic books than he would at other stores.
Unfortunately the store was way outside the range I was allowed to go to at that age.
Which made sneaking off to it all the more fun!!!
I like a Circle K that’s near to me and profitable because it’s adjacent to the town’s Boys and Girls Club and close to a touristy beach area. The area is heavily policed and neighbors are upper middle class. If I’m with my nephews on a hot day, we’ll habitually go in there.
I generally avoid convenience stores that have people “hanging around”.
I follow a storm chaser (Daniel Shaw) on youtube during tornado season. On one of his live streams this year he stopped at a C-store during a lull in the action. Also at the store were at least a dozen other teams, all hanging out in front of the store, goofing off and videotaping each other. They were making fun of the “30 minute parking” signs, seemingly oblivious that they were taking up most of the spaces and there were actual customers who might want to use them.
I like Daniel, he’s a considerate fellow, but those members of his “commuity” were real jerks.
Go watch “Twisters”, the storm chasers are a bit crazy, and certainly wild.
Not that I’m aware of.
thanks for correction, fat fingers. Even fresh fruit
but I found those room-temperature milk cartons are good backups when I run out of “real” milk
These supposedly were “real” milk – gallons of either 1% or 2%, don’t recall which. Maybe the brand they carry does something different with their milk, compared to all the other brands we’ve had 'round here. Sure as hell didn’t taste right.