No Ice With That Drink
When I was a much younger man I used to work in fast food. I was a bit of a customer satisfaction neophyte, which got me into trouble with the owners. My first two offenses against the bottom line were:
1. Using Hellman's Mayonaise in the sub bucket instead of the cheap crap, and
2. Putting a small amount of ice in the beverage cups.
Both of these offenses were greeted with, "What do you think we are, made out of money?"
Now, soda from the fountain is very cheap. It's a HUGE profit point for all fast food joints. And one of the reasons is the beverage versus ice ratio. You've seen it: you order a soda and the server
fills up the cup with ice before putting in the soda.
The soda/ice ratio here comes out to be about 25% soda, 75% ice.
Put that another way: 25% soda, 75%
WATER. You're ponying up cash for
water (and tap water, at that, for all you bottled-water freaks out there), when you think you're actually buying soda.
Most people in America are perfectly happy to be paying for water. I don't get that, water comes out of the tap every day....
Well, if the ecomonics of this rip-off haven't convinced you, then this will:
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=25442It seems that an enterprising Middle-School student in Florida did some research and found that THE WATER IN THE TOILET HAS
LESS BACTERIA THAN THE WATER IN THE ICE USED IN YOUR BEVERAGE!
Read that last paragraph again.
Now, next time you pull up to that drive-through, tell the kid "No Ice" in your drink. You'll get two things:
1. A
full cup of soda (and it comes out of the soda fountain cold, BTW), not a 25% cup of soda, and
2. A soda free of disease.
Bon Appetite!
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The Village Idiot
You've heard the story:
America's Mother Superior Sheehan gets invited to the Capital by Rep Lynn Woolsey for the President's State of The Union Address. She shows up in a protest t-shirt and is promptly hustled out by House Security. Her detainment lasts for the duration of the President's speech.
Cindy was so aghast that House Security would not let her sit in the gallery wearing a protest shirt that she wrote an open letter and had it posted on like-minded simpleton Mike Moore's website, under the title,
"What Really Happened".
The letter rambles on in a style fitting Oprah, and if you can pull yourself through it you'll come to this little gem:
After I had my personal items inventoried and my fingers printed, a nice Sgt. came in and looked at my shirt and said, "2,245, huh? I just got back from there."
I told him that my son died there. That's when the enormity of my loss hit me. I have lost my son. I have lost my First Amendment rights. I have lost the country that I love. Where did America go? I started crying in pain.
So, The Mama wants us to believe that "the enormity of [her] loss" hadn't hit her until Tuesday night? You mean all the angst and anguish she has been heaping on us for the past five months has been, ah, UNenormous?
Please.
One thing The Mama didn't share in her little heart-twister is that Republican Congressman C.W. "Bill" Young's wife was also tossed from the gallery for wearing a t-shirt
supporting the war!
Which pretty much deflates any notion that The Mama was singled out because of her status as an anti-war protester.
Speaking of which, it seems the media and the left have finally had it up to here with Sheehan. So much so, they are beginning to ask,
"Has the state of American antiwar protest really come down to Cindy Sheehan?"Which is a great question, really. Think about it: the 60s anti-war movement had some intellectual heavyweights on its side, as well as widely respected members of the popular media.
Today, all the anti-war movement can muster are a couple of hypocritical hollywood types (
"Do As I Say, Not As I Do"), a congressman who has more fingers in the lobby pie that Tom DeLay (
"Murky Jack Murtha"), and a doddering mother of questionable intellectual character who is obviously drunk on her own celebrity.
Now, that being said, The mama
could have used the State of The Union speech to very quietly make a poignant and powerful point by just sitting in the gallery, looking dignified (if that's possible for her), and knowing that every time George Bush mentioned the Iraq War, gallery cameras would be beaming her image to millions and millions of people all over the world. The contrast would have been glaring, and it's likely Bush would have come out of the evening looking less presidential by virtue of the very juxtaposition between his image and hers.
But The Village Idiot showed up Tuesday night, and snatched away a priceless moment for the antiwar movement.
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