I had to get up early and discovered that at 6 am what people get at the convenience store are lottery tickets and coffee.
I come to this depanneur a lot but never this early. So I had no idea that lottery tickets are so big at this hour.
Is this because it’s the time when blue-collar workers set out for work?
Depanneur!
I never so much hate targeted against me than when I worked at a convenience store from 11PM to 7 AM and the lottery ticket machine was broken.
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You can take a lady out of Quebec. .. 🙂
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If it’s a lotto ticket, it’s because the lotto draws today before their shift ends and they want to buy the ticket before then. The store always makes the most money on the drawing days of a big jackpot. I don’t know about your state, but the lottery will not sell you a ticket between midnight and six am in mine.
If it’s a scratch off ticket, this is just when they have time to buy them.
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Yes, you are absolutely right, these were the tickets that had to pass through the machine, not the scratch off kind.
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When I worked in a convenience store (generically called 7-11 or stop’n’go where I was) they didn’t have the lottery yet.
I worked the 11-7 night shift and got to see what construction workers got for ‘breakfast’ on their way to the site…
A typically construction worker morning order might be a large slurpee drink, a can of sardines in mustard, some saltine crackers, pork rinds, 3 twinkees and a can of copenhagen (a bit more prestige than skoal, you know). They were also more likely to buy the pink pickled eggs or vile ‘hot dog’ things that spun all night on the rotisserie.
They almost never bought beer at that hour but the city maintenance workers did.
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Ok, I’m totally a construction worker. This would be my ideal breakfast.
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With better quality meat, obviously. Witching hour meals for me are “give me some protein and sugar fast or I will kill you.” :p
Convenience store meat is just not good.
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Lack of access to fridges on site + no meal breaks + whatever’s cheaper for food+ night shift + exhaustion= disgusting food decisions. Really, at that hour you just want something you can shove in your face.
I suppose this is before energy drinks were a thing? I’m just a little shocked that no form of caffeine made it into your typical order. Were they coming off of their shift or going to?
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Going to. and where I’m from coffee was mostly a home drink only. I think some of them got coffee but they looked more like the supervisors the grunts made do with slurpees and cokes (generic for any carbonated drink where I’m from).
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Ah, the slurpees at my local stores are not caffeinated. Regular coffee was a commuting, going to work drink for men over a certain age. Anyone under thirty usually got energy drinks or cold caffeinated drinks regardless of weather or time of day. Cold caffeinated drinks worked for construction workers as the sun rose. Regular coffee would just get lukewarm before you drank it on a work site.
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