All for a Bug Juice

My 5-year-old nephew, Junior, started kindergarten this year and because of the proximity of his school and home, its been arranged that I pick him up from school almost everyday on my lunch break. And everyday after school we stop by the Maverick by his house to grab a Bug Juice for him, his brothers, and me.

This ritual has been on-going since August of this year, so it's been a bit over 2 months, and you would think that stopping at the same time Monday, Tuesday & Thursdays at the same store would earn you some kind friendly recognition from the store attendants. Well think again......

I've been playing with the idea of stopping somewhere else, but the cons of this idea are several:

•  Going out of my way to find another store, the one we go to is so conviniently located between the school and his house and it's right in the flow of things. 
• Finding another store would go against traffic and against our directional flow. 
• Believe or not, Maverick typically has better prices over 7-11. 
• Last week that we did try 7-11; Junior was like, "why are we here Tia??"

Obviously I thought I had more cons than pros to switching and in writting them out I guess I really don't. But the biggest pro of switching is that when we did go the 7-11, the clerk was much much more friendlier... I was taken aback when she said "Hi, how are you doing today?" but not just to me, but she asked Junior too!!!

The biggest con is that it's somewhat out of my way and against traffic flow. Which doesn't seem like a big deal until you actually are fighting the millions of parents who do not know how to drive and are creating their own parking spaces and lanes and driving rules and etc, etc, etc.....

Besos,

Aurora