free slurpee day

so today, or rather yesterday, as it is after midnight, was free slurpee day at 7-11, the date being july 11, or 7/11. feeling quite adventurous, my brother and sister decided to go "slurping", or "chain-slurping", depending on how you want to describe it.

the basic idea comes from my oldest sister, and a thing she calls "coning". the basic idea is you go to mcdonald's, and buy their smallest ice cream cone. then, you drive to the next one, and the goal is to just be finishing the first one while you are ordering a second one, and so on, until you either get sick, or run out of money.

the twist? slurping. visiting every 7-11 near and far, in the quest of the free 7.11 ounce slurpee. thankfully, it was free, so obviously, we couldn't run out of money. however, we could get sick. thankfully again, that didn't happen.

the result? 10 different 7-11's, only 9 slurpee's, and no stomach ache. (the numbers are slightly wrong because two of the ones we went to were out of the cups, so we made up for it by going to one of them twice... shhhhh... don't tell anybody...) normally, when i go to 7-11, i will get the double gulp, which holds 64 ounces of whatever beverage (or slurpee) you choose to get. if you do a little math, it looks like this: 9 slurpee's x 7.11 ounces = 63.99 ounces, which is just 0.01 ounces short of what i would normally get...

thankfully, yesterday wasn't just free slurpee day. it was also the day that i kicked off my new diet, and enacted it by saving that enormous 0.01 ounces! let's just hope i can keep this up until next july 11th...