6-12 at the 7-Eleven?

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:06 am

When I was a kid, the most popular insect repellent was something called 6-12. There's a chain of convenience stores in North America called 7-Eleven that came into existence some time later. So I'm wondering, was there ever a time when you could have walked into a 7-Eleven to buy a bottle of 6-12?

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:56 am

I awoke today wondering what I would have to contemplate, as I seemed tapped out.

Thank you.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:30 am

7-11 was out of 6-12, but said they'd have the next shipment in at 5:13.

djm

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:09 pm

It's ten to one that some poor soul probably had a 9 to 5 selling 6-12 at the 7-11.

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:31 pm

Innocent Bystander wrote:It's ten to one that some poor soul probably had a 9 to 5 selling 6-12 at the 7-11.

10-4 on that, good buddy.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:32 pm

Hmm. Nothing here to eighty-six, yet.

TheSpoonMan · Post by **TheSpoonMan** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:56 pm

I am not a witty fellow. So all I have to say is

42.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:18 pm

Everyone should 69 so Nano will have a thread to 86.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:23 pm

jsluder wrote:Everyone should 69 so Nano will have a thread to 86.

You tempt me sorely. Though I like your free love attitude, dated as it is, this is a family site.

Ro3b · Post by **Ro3b** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:57 pm

This predates my residence in Maryland, so I'm not sure of the details. 7-11 decided, sometime in the distant past, that its stores would no longer carry adult magazines, so some local entrepreneur jumped in to fill the gap and opened a chain of convenience stores called... 6-12. There's one (maybe the only one left?) right across Sligo Creek Park from my house; I just bought beer there. Next time I'm there I'll ask if they ever carried the insect repellant.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:13 pm

I stopped at a gas station on I-45 in Houston some years back, and I'm pretty sure I was the only person on the premises who had never been in jail. The clerk, Snake, has prison tattoos on his face. There was no sign out front to identify the place other than one that said "GAS." I had to get a receipt so I could get reimbursed; it said "6-11 Gas."

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:45 am

Ro3b wrote:...so some local entrepreneur jumped in to fill the gap and opened a chain of convenience stores called... 6-12.

I recall a kind of down at the heels convenience store by that name in my Dad's hometown of Tazewell, VA.

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:57 am

John Williams and John Doyle once introduced a tune by saying: Next up is the Convenvience Reel; you know, the one with that interesting 7/11 meter.

Needless to say they told it better than I just did. *sigh*

Carol

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:16 am

My father's second-favorite cartoon (his favorite was the New Yorker cartoon with a bunch of guys in suits looking forlornly down into a tank of water; the caption was "the day the Ivory Soap sank at Procter and Gamble") was a cartoon sequence showing a soft drink factory that had invented 1-up, 2-up, 3-up, 4-up, 5-up, and 6-up but then went out of business because nobody liked any of them. The caption was, "Little did they know how close they came."

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:53 am

bradhurley wrote:My father's second-favorite cartoon (his favorite was the New Yorker cartoon with a bunch of guys in suits looking forlornly down into a tank of water; the caption was "the day the Ivory Soap sank at Procter and Gamble") was a cartoon sequence showing a soft drink factory that had invented One-up, Two-up, Three-up, Four-up, Five-up, and Six-up but then went out of business because nobody liked any of them. The caption was, "Little did they know how close they came."