If you’ve passed through the Sag Harbor 7 Eleven lately then you may have noticed some of the new interior revamping that was done – new lights, new layout, new food offerings, new coffee dispensers. Now that the inside is done, I’m hoping that someone turns the focus to the exterior, most notably, the parking lot.
Now, perhaps it’s not fair to generalize and associate the entire parking lot with 7 Eleven (there are a couple of other stores in the complex), but for the purposes of this opinion post, what is up with the 7 Eleven parking lot?
Pot holes, cracks, severed speed bumps, faded parking lines makes a drive through the parking lot require visitors to have 4 wheel drive.
Quick side story: Sometimes I cut through Mount Misery when driving from Sagg Road to Route 114, which takes me down Merchants Path, a poorly maintained dirt road that is bumpy as all hell. My daughter enjoys this adventure and we (cleverly) refer to this thoroughfare as “The Bumpy Road.” From time-to-time she will ask, “Dad, can we go down The Bumpy Road.”
Well, one night we headed downtown to pick up some milk and upon arrival to 7 Eleven’s parking lot my daughter asks, “Dad, are we on the bumpy road?”
So, besides being an apparent hazard to drivers, pedestrians, and dogs, this craterous parking lot is also causing distress and confusion amongst the impressionable youth of Sag Harbor. Or at least in one specific, isolated, hyperbolic case.
On a few failed attempts to find a contact number of who owns the complex and is responsible for the lot, I called 7 Eleven directly. The clerk who answered the phone was not sure who to contact, but he did say it was a Manhattan-based company.
We will try to dig deeper to see if there is someone to contact and if there are plans to fix the lot, but until then we’ll just keep driving through “The Bumpy Lot.”
About John
With all the people that cut thru the lot to and from the bridge, perhaps it’s smart to keep it bumpy so folks will keep it slow.