7-Eleven celebrates it's 75th anniversary tomorrow (7/11) with giving away 7.11oz Slurpees to the first 1000 customers in each store. I'm gonna do my best to get there.

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You are a fount of amazing knowledge. From now on I will refer to you as CyberSolomon.

I have this vision of Bart and Milhouse sitting in front of the Kwiki-Mart giving themselves brain freezes with free Squishees.

My family has been referring to all blended-ice products as "squishies" ever since that episode.

I just can't see myself going out of my way to locate a 7-eleven today, just to take advantage of a free few cents' worth of ice and sugar...

But it's FREE! In America, is there anything better than FREE?

ok... cool.... I guess....

Can someone tell me why that "ice and sugar" takes so damn long to mix? It seems like every time I want a "squishie", they're always mixing. And the guy usually tells me something like "that won't be ready for 20 minutes"

It certainly is cool that they're doing that though. Despite the fact that slurpee's are pretty cheap anyway

Oh, and "I don't know where you magic pixies came from, but I like your pixie drink!"

That was sort of tongue in cheek. Cyber and Solomon should probably never be used together in serious sentence.

What could be better than the experience of brain-freeze coupled with a blue tongue.

Oh what the heck. If it's free....

I feel a round of Binge Squishee drinking coming on - beginning with a squishee on the highest sugar setting.

Mmmm, free goo.

Hmm, what time does this start? I once tried to get a slurpee at midnight with a(frighteningly) persistent friend, and we found that the four 7-11's (All within a mile and a half) all had their slurpee machines defrost/refreeze at midnight... Oh well, I think I'll wait and spend my dollar next time I want a slurpee.

Matthew

You have to go out of your way to find a 7-11? Wow, I've never experienced that in America. Sounds like heaven.

Rob

Yeah, no kidding. In my Washington DC suburban town center we have 2 stores within 2 blocks of each other. Of course, on those same two blocks we also have 2 McDonalds

If you think that's bad, lets talk about Starbucks. They're EVERYWHERE. It's definitely the worst in Seattle (for obvious reasons). I think it's an intersection in Seattle that has one at all four corners.

ya over near mission steet in san fran no matter how hard you try you can loose site of a starbucks anywhere, thats always entertaing, there are seriously 2 one accross the street from one another over there it out of control. On another note there are 2 7-11 here in petaluma within a .3 mile radious and there are a total of 5 in town that i know of. and petaluma isnt much more than a honky town anyhow. Corprate America is funny.

And for the event a Squissie Bootup Animation.

Ok, is this too far to go for a free one?

Yea, I've got my empeg to keep me company, but still

Yeah, that's a little far. I'm surprised there isn't one closer to such a large city.

Check out my options. Looks like I'll be getting 3 free Slurpees tomorrow.

OH YA! Im getting 5! http://go.vicinity.com/7eleven/GeoFind.d?E=sPaMw&AD2=&CITY=Petaluma&STATE=CA&ZIP=94954&AD4=USA&submit1=++SUBMIT+

I would have 126 miles to go to get to the nearest 7-11. That doesn't sound right. Oh well, I don't need one that bad.

hey rob i wonder what time they will accully start counting the first 1000? 12:00? or start it at like 5:00 or something either way i wanna be number 1 its jsut a hop skip and a jump to the one by my house.

I guess I don't feel so bad now then....

My closest one is only a block away from my place

Well technically From My House Address http://go.vicinity.com/7eleven/GeoFind.d?E=sPaMw&AD2=1504+Rio+Nido+Way&CITY=Petaluma&STATE=CA&ZIP=94954&AD4=USA&submit1=++SUBMIT+ probably shouldnt be posting my address but oh well u guys can all come over for a party and send me junk mail.

7-Eleven normally doesn't have 7.11oz Slurpee cups. So it's probably that each location only gets 1000 "special" cups. When they run out of cups, maybe they will let you fill a regular cup 2/3 the way. I doubt it though.

I would assume they start giving them away at 4-6AM. There are too many hoodlums that hang out at the Stony Point, NY 7-11. I used to be one of them (nothing better to do in a small town). The hoods would probably put too much of a dent in the cups to start giving them away at 12AM.

If you want one at Midnight, you could probably bring in a printout from the web. They will probably just give it to you to get you out of the store.

Speaking of free food... I just got back from PF Changs where the Lettuce Wraps were on the house for some unknown reason. Free lettuce wraps and Slurpee.... This is turning out to be a great week.

I would have 126 miles to go to get to the nearest 7-11.

Is that all? I would have to travel close to 400 miles... assuming that they still have 7-11 stores in Anchorage...

tanstaafl.

haha rob, ya at midnite they would be gone by morning with the amount of stoners there are in this town "wha? free slurppies, dar.. uh.. can i get 2?" "hrm.. maybe if we go in once get our free slurppie, than get a hat and change shirts he wont notice and get another" ill probalby sport my hood at 4:30am and get my freebe seems like the right thing to do.

But it would only take you a couple of hours or so to drive there in your sho-wagon and you would have some great music to listen to on the way But that's assuming that there is a road there which I don't think there is. In that case it would probably be a days ride by dog sled.

Haha, do I win anything?

I wasn't lying, was I?

holly cow, ther everywhere u look there.. WOW! i wonder where they started at. those are the fany ones with gas stations and stuff uh?

There was one one the corner near my house number 1 on the map but it suddenly closed up one day. Three months later (last week) the "All American Store" opened up, with a giant American Flag painted across the facade.
I haven't been in yet. It looks like it's still a kwikymart but they took out the gas pumps. I can only get a Slurpee on the way to work at number two on the map now. Three is in the wrong direction...

Then there's the all-night resource of the college student.

I'm about 2 blocks from #3 there.

I would assume they start giving them away at 4-6AM. There are too many hoodlums that hang out at the Stony Point, NY 7-11.
I was one of the hoodlums at one in Tempe AZ. One night it blew up from a gas explosion, luckily no hoodlums were there and the employee was only slightly injured. Us hoodlums had no place to hang for a while until it reopened, but now it's an insurance sales office or something like that.

but now it's an insurance sales office or something like that.


So it's still full or hoodlums then

Hmmm. I spend enough time taking bio breaks.

Think I'm going to save myself for Rite Aid Pharmacy's 50th celebration. Free Percocets.

I think it's an intersection in Seattle that has one at all four corners.

There's a large section of downtown where it is basically possible to always hit an espresso stand of some sort with a well-thrown baseball, and even my humble neighborhood has a Tullys, Starbucks and SBC clustered on an intersection within baseball range, but I can't think of a Seattle intersection that has 2, 3, or 4 Starbucks in corner positions. I will investigate.

Two Starbucks do occupy diagonally opposed corners on what I take to be the busiest intersection on Robson Street in Vancouver, BC, FWIW

It seems whenever I go to get a slurpee before 10am they aren't frozen yet. Hopefully I can get one on my way into school... in 6 hours...:)

Nothing beats the 7-11 on the way back from the beach in San Clemente. All of their flavors are always mixed and they have the best ones: cherry, pina colada, blue rasberry.... Mmmmmm

woohoo i got my freebee at 10:30 i guess i go there enough for them to jsut hook a brother up i was the only one in the store, it was priceless, me the girlfriend and 2 7.11oz free slurpies, they taste better when they are free

Too bad today it's like 70 degrees outside. Not exactly slurpee weather...

""I would have to travel close to 400 miles..."

dang! you beat me. according to the 7-11 locater I have to go 321 miles.



--Yeah! this post bumped me up to newbie--

the closest one to where I live is 319 miles. according to their website
http://go.vicinity.com/7eleven/GeoFind.d?E=sPaMw&AD2=&CITY=starkville&STATE=ms&ZIP=39759&AD4=USA&submit1=++SUBMIT+

its 102 here woohoo 5 slurpies for me

cool link but I got ya beat.... I have one 212 ft from my house! here

Got my free drink last night. I probably should have just paid the 75 cents to get the regular, but a free supersmall was good enough.

You know what I found funny? Some stupid 16 year old girl was in there with her friend. Her friend bought a regular, and she bought a small! What a moron!

Then again, there were absolutely no ads for the promotion anywhere on the store we went to. NOthing at all except for the cups themselves. We went at 10PM and there were still about 150 cups left. I don't think everybody got the message. Was this the case at any of your stores?

Here ya go... Some humor about Starbucks from the Onion.

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ROFL, good one.

Hah! hadn't seen that.

For those who care, more Onion-flavored Starbucks. I left that particualr copy on the table at my local Tully's when I left.

OMG, I totally lost it when I saw that picture. ROFL.