My sustenance comes from two sources: sugar and caffeine. I am not particularly greedy (except maybe in the case of sugar), but I usually require caffeine in the morning (preferably in the form of tea), caffeine with lunch (generally Diet Coke) and then a caffeine pick-me-up in the late afternoon (good coffee, if available, but another Diet Coke also does the trick). And should the occasion call for it an additional caffeine hit with dinner. I realize that this is a little unkind to the body, so I try to limit my sizing in each case to be 16oz or less.
This was all well and good until a new soda machine popped up in my building. For some stupid reason, it no longer carries 12oz cans of Diet Coke (cans of frickin' Fanta, yes, but not Diet Coke). By the way, who the hell drinks Fanta? But for us Diet Coke consumers, it is 20oz or nothing. The 12oz cans are only 75 cents but the 20oz bottles are now $1.25. Not only that, but the dollar feeder gets full quickly and stops accepting them, so then you have to pump $1.25 in change to get your fix. In my world, quarters are strictly for laundry, so that means finding enough dimes and nickels for 20oz of Diet Coke when all I really want is 12oz. I hate the new machine.
And I don't even win anything for all my trouble ...
Don't get mad, get even.
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Posted by: sam | February 22, 2005 at 08:08 PM
awww, im sorry. i remember last year when i raced down the Really Really Long Hallway [RRLH] in my school to get a pack of tropical skittles, and they were JUST GETTING RID OF THE MACHINE. i was furious! first of all, i was already late for tennis conditioning, and second of all, that was the third time i tried to get skittles and couldn't. i tried twice in some other public area beside my school. the machine was either broke, or it wouldn't accept my crummy dollar. screw the machines, and just buy a pack of diet cokes in a supermarket... though you might be tempted to down it all.
Posted by: little miss demosthenes | February 23, 2005 at 02:28 PM
I know the machine! The whole conversion over to the 20oz bottles is a big conspiracy to force us to spend the additional $0.50 and rot our teeth that much more quickly. One time too many facing the empty can rows and even empty rows for Coke in bottles with only the nasty beverages remaining reminded me to bring in my own twelve pack. Wonder what it would take to get them to supply the mini-cans? Don't even get me started on the stupidity of the location in the sun, melting the chocolate in the candy machine and forcing the refrigeration to burn up that much more energy to keep the beverages ice cold.
Posted by: lohara | February 23, 2005 at 04:03 PM