MIDNIGHT: 7-Eleven employee a real night salesman

Come on down and bring your wallet.

“You’re the next contestant on ‘We’re Taking Your Money,’” joked Nick Morgan, night clerk at 7-Eleven and a Mount Pleasant resident.

“I love my job. I just try to make it a fun experience for people to come here.”

Morgan worked from 10 p.m. Friday until noon Saturday. He spends a lot of that time entertaining the customers.

With country music playing in the background, Morgan, 31, helped 72 customers between midnight and 1 a.m. Saturday. He said around this time of the night, he sees one customer every 45 seconds, on average.

Morgan has worked at 7-Eleven, 302 W. Broomfield St., since December 2007 and knew many people by name.

“A lot of my customers are away from home for the first time. I like to make everyone feel like home here,” he said.

Gladstone senior Damon Paul and Lincoln Park junior Katie Dupree came to the store a little after midnight to splurge on a couple Slurpees.

They visit the store around the same time about once a week, Paul said.

“(Morgan’s) entertaining. He makes it fun to come here,” Dupree said. “Let’s be honest, he’s the reason we come.”

Some of his late-night regulars include Central Michigan University custodians or people just getting off work.

Morgan considers himself a bartender to those students who are not 21 years old yet, and listens to their problems.

“I sell Slurpees and shoot the bull,” he said. “I’m their bartender.”

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