[Ladyzekke]

Where I live we have "7-11s," which are basically little convenience stores. Bunches of them about. Well, there is this one 7-11 that is near my house. Actually I consider it my "House 7-11" cause it's so close to where I live, I could walk a few blocks and get to it. So, because it is so close, I tend to visit it often. I hit it on my way to work, and sometimes I hit it on my way home from work. Well, since I've moved into this neighborhood, I've noticed that my House 7-11 is different from most others. It seems to draw freaks you see. Oh, no doubt, many convenience stores that stay open 24/7, and sell beer and wine until midnight, all get freaks and drunks and odd human assortments. But I swear, my House 7-11 is extra special! It's gotten to the point where I feel I must write down a freak diary here.

In the past 5 years, so far I've encountered:

1. Many hits from this dude that likes to stand in front of the entrance doors and beg for money. He'll even come inside if you say No, and watch you pay. He will comment on your change and how you lied when you said you had no money for him. A neighbor told me this guy even went so far as to follow him across the main road to a shopping center, to watch him pay for stuff. Haven't seen this particular freak in a good 6 months, so hopefully he's moved on.

2. Went in the House 7-11 one morning and they were arresting a man in a wheelchair for stealing. He was cursing away and threatening bodily harm to the employees cause they was lyin bout his stealin! Was just odd to me seeing a freak that was a guy in a wheelchair. Not your typical you know LOL?

3. Oh man. One winter a few years ago, I hit the House 7-11 on my way home from work. Was dark already at 5:30pm, and there is this skinny old lady in there in front of me in line. She is in her night dress, and slippers. The kind of slipper you just slide your foot in, with no heel backing or anything. No socks. It must have been 15F out there!!! How could she not be freezing is beyond me! Oh, and of course, she was buying one of those big bottles of beer!

4. Took work off one day cause I wasn't feeling well. Hit the House 7-11 around 11:00am to get some Gingerale. Was just approaching the double doors and reaching for the right door with my right hand, when I see out of my peripheral vision a lady on my left about 10 feet away approaching. I open the door and go to enter, and she makes this PSSSSTT! noise and says to me "Oh you go first! Go ahead! Go first, forget me bitch!" and all kinds of other blather I can't recall anymore. It was nuts cause she acted like I somehow interrupted her or butted into the door before her. Bbbbut, she was 10 feet away when I hit the doorway, so..She was just looking for anything to run her mouth, cause she was a freak. Again, this 7-11 is like a lodestone for em. It's scary cause I'm a whopping 5 foot tall, 100 pounds.

5. A neighbor told me he went to the House 7-11 one morning and there is some mental patient that likes to walk like a crab on the ground. She also likes to describe people outloud while they are in line. I personally haven't seen that one myself yet!

6. In addition, neighbor encountered a freak woman while in line. She apparently took minutes procrastinating having to get out of the line (which was long) to get cough drops. Nobody argued with her, so she went and got them. When she returned, she started mouthing off how she didn't care if anyone was pissed at her for having to wait or not. Well, neighbor made the mistake of saying to her how maybe she should not be so rude about it cause everyone waited patiently for her. She then proceeded to screetch at the TOP of her lungs all sorts of insults to the neighbor, many about his "mammy". She apparently bellowed curses to him to the world across an entire parking lot on her way home (she must live in this one highrise nearby, gawd maybe they all come from there!).

7. To sum it up so far (and I may even be forgetting stuff), yesterday, on my way home from work. Hit the HOme 7-11, and there was this guy passed out, laying out on his stomach, in a corner of the 7-11 building. This is the same corner that has grossed me out for weeks, as I pass by it if I park in a certain parking space, cause it smells of piss. Somebody took a big piss in that corner, and nobody hoses off anything, and we are in a drought so nothing anywhere right now is being rinsed off. So basically this guy is face down in dried up piss corner, yee haw! What cracks me up is people continuously come and go at this store, and stand and chat and stuff and just ignore him like he's a bush or something, completely normal!

To be continued! What will I see next?! I hate this city LOL.

Anyone else have a particular store or area that just seems to be a lodestone to all the freaks and mental people around?