7 - Eleven to shut hundreds of stores across the US

[jmowreader]

10. They really need to add "reading" to their employment test

I have a friend who really likes to smoke Parliament cigarettes. 7-Eleven sells them at their store in Coeur d'Alene, ID, so she and I took off to the store to get her some.

Parliament cigarettes have PARLIAMENT written on the box in inch-high letters. This store keeps them on their rack just to the left of a Camel sign. The cigarettes in the rows above and below the Parliaments are Not Parliament Cigarettes.

So we go in there...

"I'd like a pack of Parliament 100s, please."

Dude's looking all over the rack.

"We don't sell those."
"Yes you do. Look again. I see them."

A few minutes later...

"I don't see them."
"Do you see the Camel sign?" Yes he did. It was like two feet long.
"Put your hand on the Camel sign." He does.
"Now move your hand to the left until it's on the cigarettes. Those are the Parliaments."

He moved his hand to the right, then up one level and picked up a pack of Not Parliament Cigarettes. "Is this what you want?"

After we got out to the car I had to ask...

"Why do you smoke Parliaments?"
"You get the joy of teaching two-year-olds to read with every pack."