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September 15, 2005
A nickel here and a nickel there
At school there's this Pepsi machine, where you can purchase a can of Pepsi for 75 cents. Not a bad deal, except I hate Pepsi and wouldn't buy a can of it for one cent. However, it also sells Aquafina, which paradoxically is one of my favorite bottled waters.
My favorite bottled waters, in no particular order: Fiji; Aquafina; Evian; Naya (which they don't seem to have in the US anymore... fuckers.) and the cheapo brands Dannon and Poland Spring.
Anyhow, the vending machine has Aquafina bottles. The price of the Aquafina bottle is $1.30. What kind of messed up vending machine charges $1.30? Why not $1.25? Personally, I feel $1.25 is too much for a bottle of water, and making me look for that extra nickel is really lame.
I think vending machines that ask for inexact amounts like $1.30 or 85 cents are biased towards women. I don't know many men who carry around spare change except for that which they accumulate during that very same day. Women, on the other hand, carry purses which are a veritable piggy bank. They carry them everywhere, at all times. I even see women who jog with their purses, or else dump them into gigantic fanny purse packs. Men, on the other hand, keep their change in one of three places: the car, their coats, or a bucket at home. [I know some people have these things, but those people are removed from the gene pool through selective bullying.] The only time a man is going to have change is when it's cold enough to wear a coat, therefore excluding most of the summer months. I think it goes without saying that a pop machine would get most of its business on steamy days in August.
Before you ask, I don't know why Pepsi executives would want a vending machine biased towards women.
So, since Pepsi insisted on making the machine $1.30, I see people fumble around every day for an extra nickel, only to give up and spend two dollars on the water. This just isn't right to me. Now you have 70 cents floating around in your pocket - and that's not even enough to buy the 75 cent Pepsi!
Posted by oz115 at September 15, 2005 10:04 AM
Comments
Okay, you know you are like the wind beneath my wings or something... but you have a list of favorite bottled water?! I mean, doesn't it all taste the same? I think we should do a blind taste test this weekend and see what you come up with. To me, the colder, the better. And that's ALL that matters!
Posted by: Your Lady friend at September 15, 2005 07:03 PM