Notes from the Back of a Grocery Store Line
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:15:00 -0600
Posted by: Karen
File Under: Pop Culture
Hi there, Man and Woman ahead of me in line at the grocery store. I notice that you have two shopping carts full of soda—all in 2-liter bottles. There are so many of them piled in there that they keep falling out. Are you planning to go into business? Am I going to see you two downtown tomorrow, peddling your wares from a street corner? I'm just asking because it's going to take the cashier until the end of time to scan your merchandise, and I have a few things I'd like to take care of before then.
If you're not planning to go into business with that soda, then what are you doing with it? Here are a few theories I've come up with; please tell me when I'm getting warm.
- You misunderstood your local drug dealer when he requested 50 kilos of coke.
- You're hosting a pizza party for every child in North America.
- You're hoping to find the golden ticket that will entitle you to a tour of the famous Billy Barq's root beer factory.
- You took the term 'soda fountain' a little too literally.
- You're going to empty the bottles out, lash them together, and use them as a flotation device to carry you across the Atlantic. (You'll be the new Lindberghs!)
- Pepsi fetish.
- You're going to cut off the tops of the bottles, fill the bottoms with water, and start your own hydroponics lab.
- You've developed a type of car that uses soda as fuel.
- You've developed a killer robot that uses soda as fuel.
- You're going to secretly replace our oceans with Mountain Dew to see if anyone notices.
- You're trying out the South Lawrence Dr. Pepper Diet.
- You'd like to buy the world a Coke.
- You're a member of the Michigan People's Liberation Front, and you're planning to conduct a full-scale marine assault on Wisconsin from the banks of Lake Michigan, using only bottle rockets.
- You were recently accused of being oblivious to pop culture.