I'm so glad you've taken time out of your day to join us on the Clark Howard show.

You know, our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you so you make better

financial decisions in your life.

And I hope you're enjoying your summer so far,

maybe squeezing in a little travel.

And Krista, this is a special day in your life

for your dad.

It's my daddy's birthday today.

Happy birthday, dad. And you love this number too, 7-11. You love a convenience

store. I do love convenience stores. And recently when we did a drive up and down the East Coast, I got to go to three of my favorites got to go to sheets, Wawa, and Quick Trip.

Ah, it's a little thing.

I feel so badly for people on the West Coast that, you know, in the Western states,

they don't have these wonderful convenience

store gas station chains with clean bathrooms and all that stuff.

Everyone should have the I feel bad that everyone hasn't had the experience of driving up to one of these

convenience stores with you because you really are like a little kid it's like

your first day at the candy store and you point out all these things that nobody else would notice.

I make the mundane exciting and the exciting mundane.

And so I get to one of these state-of-the-art convenience stores and I'm like, oh, look at that.

They've changed what kind of foreign they're using. I guess they were having trouble with that foreign or whatever.

And I like study what they do I study their food

menus as they become big competitors of fast food and quick serve

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