Thank Heaven For 7-Eleven®
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
7-Eleven® stores are bringing back a customer favorite. Bananas foster cappuccino combines a rich, banana dessert flavor with a frothy coffee drink for a delicious warm beverage. Pour it over ice or make it a warm drink – just the way you want it. Try a bananas foster cappuccino next time you stop at a 7-Eleven store. – 7-Eleven®
Yeah, bananas and coffee together?! I’m sold. I’m sure true cappuccino snobs aficionados wouldn’t be caught dead drinking anything from a machine at 7-Eleven®. Me? I’m fairly easy to please when it comes to coffee. Add bananas or banana flavor to pretty much anything and I’m in.
But wait! There’s more. This particular store is right down the street from my new office. Yeah, that’s right, I have a job. It’s been a whole week now. I’m on a roll! Anyhoo….I stop at this 7-Eleven store each morning for a large cup of ice. Chewing on crushed ice is an annoying habit that I developed several months ago and they have some good, soft, crushed ice at 7-Eleven. At first I was irritated because they charge me for a full priced soft drink (most do not), but then I discovered the banana coffee and some seriously friendly customers.
Every day this week, some customer of the male persuasion, has flirted with me, paid me a compliment, gone out of their way to hold the door when their own hands are full, or just generally made my morning.
This morning, on my way out, a guy said he loved my shirt (because it was a Chicago Bears shirt) and that I was looking particularly sexy in it. Now, I am well aware that my feminist friends would find this behavior appalling and inappropriate. I disagree. He didn’t leer at, grope or otherwise harass me. He wasn’t creepy. He said it good-naturedly and with a smile, almost in a tongue-in-cheek way, as if he meant I looked sexy only because I was sporting a Bears logo.
Yesterday, another harmless guy asked me something over the coffee counter. I can’t even remember what it was. But then he said something funny after I responded (again, I can’t remember what that was either) and I smiled. He then said he only started the conversation to see me smile and that it was worth it.
I do realize these are cheesy and silly and possibly even lame pick-up lines. I doubt it. I think it’s just some harmless fun flirting. It’s not like we’re in some meat-market-type-club, drunk at 2am. It’s 7:30 in the morning. We’re all on our way to work. It’s fun and I’ve been enjoying it.
It is entirely possible that I’ve just spent way too much time alone in my own house for the past year, who knows. All I do know is that, for now, between the ice, the banana coffee and the male attention, I’m Thanking Heaven For 7-Eleven®. 
Thanks for stopping by!
What a great way to start the workday!
Thank heaven for men. I love meeting them in my daily life … the cashier at the gas station, the post man, UPS dude — they are all so kind.
Nice to hear your settling into a routine so quick!
Nothing wrong with a little flirting. Work it, work it!
i dont’ know, you maybe be wrong, this may be better than italy. your “italy” is within daily driving distance. nothing like a shot of coffee and a shot of self-esteem at the same time!
sounds like you have been at home away from men for too long! and from what i know of you on here, i see no reason why you should not be getting all this attention!
one of the upsides to working and not having kids attached to you and being dressed up a bit?
it is a part i have always liked….
I do like getting dressed up, but then I also like casual Friday.