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| A Micro 7-Eleven |
On this last trip I saw a 7-Eleven store that may well be the record holder for being the smallest in all of Thailand. Located in the Mo Chit BTS station - as of today the Northern end of the Sukhumvit line, near the Jatujak Weekend Market - you might miss it if you blinked while walking by.
It was late in the evening, and I was on my way back to my room in Nonthaburi. The cheapest way to do that was to take the BTS to the end of the line and then catch a taxi for the rest of the ride. Since it was such a gorgeously balmy evening I stopped to wander around the station before heading down to street level and my ride "home".
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| The sliding door was next to the candy shelf |
Normally it's pretty frantic in the station when I'm passing through to or from the weekend market, but - as many stations can be after the evening commute - it was relatively peaceful and inviting. I was ready for something to drink, and was pleased to see the familiar orange and green stripes flanking the 7-11 logo, but something seemed odd about the place at my very first glance: it looked very small.
It was.
Upon stepping inside I was almost immediately nose to nose with a guy cleaning the soda dispensing machine. As you can see by the photos, this place wasn't much over nine feet deep, at best - and maybe 15 feet long, tops. There was almost more space behind the register than there was in front of it for the customers to queue up. Not being fond of being packed like a sardine I shuddered to think what it must be like during busy times.
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| Looking to the left, just inside the door |
As you can see in the picture above there was just barely room for one person to get down to the magazine rack and the drinks further down the refrigerated case. My wide angle lens really couldn't do the place justice, and even one additional customer made it impossible to get a decent view of it, so these will have to do. If you're in the station sometime, check it out.
At lease there isn't much floor to keep mopped.
2 comments:
"The cheapest way ... taxi for the rest of the ride."
Cheapest: walking
second: bus
third: BTS/MRT and/or taxi depending from where to where and how many people
ChristianPFC
Maybe I should have said "cheapest and most practical way", since I'd gotten off of a riverboat at the Saphan Taksin BTS station area docks, and that's W-A-A-A-Y too long a walk. I'm not as well versed in bus routes, myself, so I tend to fall back on the BTS. You're right, though... if it's two (or more) and not traffic time it's usually cheaper to take a taxi than the BTS.
Thanks again :-)
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