Frozen Fiasco
There's a picture up from our cottage trip last weekend on the BenCam. It was taken shortly after the six of us completed a round of putt-putt fun at Island Golf in downtown Minocqua. I'll have pictures up soon, but tonight, I'd like to tell a more recent story.
It's been very hot here in Wisconsin lately. When I was out running this morning, I noticed that the local Speedway gas station was offering a fountain or frozen drink, any size, for only 79 cents. Shortly after dinner, we were looking for something to do, so Jenelle and I walked the 3/4 mile to get a slushee-style beverage. The deal was still posted on the sign outside, so we were somewhat eager to enjoy this treat, especially because it was still pretty hot out. To our surprise, all that we found by the slush machine was the phrase:
OUT OF ORDER
How very frustrating. No chance for a refreshing 79-cent frozen drink. We walked out of the building without purchasing a thing, and we walked across the street to a BP gas station. There wasn't as big of a slush machine as at the Speedway, but it was there. Two flavors -- cherry and blue raspberry. For whatever reason, the cherry side contained blue slush, and the blue raspberry side contained red slush.
Ben: "So, what flavor do you want? Cherry or blue raspberry?"
Jenelle: "Er, um, the red one."
Ben: "Okay, one blue raspberry -- sounds good to me!"
As we were about to pour, one of the station employees stopped us, notifying us that the slush wasn't tasting quite right today. He said to put a little bit in a cup and try it. His assessment was correct -- the slush was VERY sour. We thanked him for letting us try it, told him about the Speedway across the street with the same slush outage issue, and made our way to our next destination.
A few blocks west was a third gas station -- a Kwik Trip. VICTORY! We walked out with a 32-ounce wild strawberry slush, and it was quite good. It was $1.26 including tax, but that really didn't bother us at this point. We walked over two miles total (roundtrip) to get our frozen drink, but we did it.
And so ends the story of another small triumph in this thing we call life.
It's been very hot here in Wisconsin lately. When I was out running this morning, I noticed that the local Speedway gas station was offering a fountain or frozen drink, any size, for only 79 cents. Shortly after dinner, we were looking for something to do, so Jenelle and I walked the 3/4 mile to get a slushee-style beverage. The deal was still posted on the sign outside, so we were somewhat eager to enjoy this treat, especially because it was still pretty hot out. To our surprise, all that we found by the slush machine was the phrase:
OUT OF ORDER
How very frustrating. No chance for a refreshing 79-cent frozen drink. We walked out of the building without purchasing a thing, and we walked across the street to a BP gas station. There wasn't as big of a slush machine as at the Speedway, but it was there. Two flavors -- cherry and blue raspberry. For whatever reason, the cherry side contained blue slush, and the blue raspberry side contained red slush.
Ben: "So, what flavor do you want? Cherry or blue raspberry?"
Jenelle: "Er, um, the red one."
Ben: "Okay, one blue raspberry -- sounds good to me!"
As we were about to pour, one of the station employees stopped us, notifying us that the slush wasn't tasting quite right today. He said to put a little bit in a cup and try it. His assessment was correct -- the slush was VERY sour. We thanked him for letting us try it, told him about the Speedway across the street with the same slush outage issue, and made our way to our next destination.
A few blocks west was a third gas station -- a Kwik Trip. VICTORY! We walked out with a 32-ounce wild strawberry slush, and it was quite good. It was $1.26 including tax, but that really didn't bother us at this point. We walked over two miles total (roundtrip) to get our frozen drink, but we did it.
And so ends the story of another small triumph in this thing we call life.
2 Comments:
Personally, I was quite sad that 7-Eleven did not have free Slurpees on 7/11 this year.
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filbert, at Mon Jul 24, 01:15:00 AM CDT
Hi, Ben and Jenelle. I am just a random fellow Wisconsinite who googled "kwik trip wild strawberry slush" and ended up at your blog. :) I don't know you but you sound like nice people and I hope you really enjoyed your trip up north. Thanks for providing the Kwik Trip nod -- I was looking online to see if it was worth leaving the house with pneumonia just to indulge my desperate jones for a fruit slush. I am now satisfied that it will be a worthwhile endeavor...
Your fellow Cheesehead,
Shelly
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Shelly, at Thu Sep 24, 09:59:00 PM CDT
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