7-11. 301. Noon

A 40-oz of Old English Malt Liquor, a blunt in a purple plastic tube and a Slurpy that was half blue and half red. That's what the woman in front of me at 7-11 was buying today. And, wouldn't you know it, just as I was about to make a value judgment, she paid with a hundred dollar bill.

Whew! I was so relieved to see she wasn't using her last dollars for that array of entertainment.