I live in the first world (and so do all of you) - doesn’t that make all of our problems first world problems?
You might be surprised. From what I hear, fountain drinks cost the restaurant literally pennies. At least in 2009, estimates from people working in the business were anywhere from 2 to 13 cents per glass. A local burrito place told my son that when they have their special “dollar burrito” days (for burritos that usually cost around $6 or $7 or so), they still make a profit as long as the customer buys a fountain drink. Those sodas are pretty close to pure profit, especially when you’re paying $2 and up for your drink.
On the other hand, free refills all summer long as you described - well, that’s going to make a hit in the 7/11 corporate ledgers.
So for you folks spending time at the dispenser filling up that cup to “get your money’s worth” … you will never get your money’s worth. But I do still get some momentary satisfaction from a well-filled cup of soda, darnit.
I don’t know, sometimes I get malaria and flies crawl around on my eyeballs.
Yet another problem best solved with fire.
Enjoy,
Steven
So you drove your sister to get free refills but wouldn’t let her pee? That seems somewhat excessive.
On the one hand, I get that you’re using natural consequences to teach her a valuable lesson. On the other, it can be intensely painful to hold it for a long time. And if she wet herself, intensely humiliating.
I say this as someone whose mother would take us on long road trips when I was about 5 or 6, give us as much soda as we wanted and refuse to pull over so I could go to the bathroom because she had her mind set on specific places where she would consent to let us go. It didn’t matter how long it was - sometimes it was as long as three hours. If I couldn’t hold it and peed myself, she screamed at me and made me sit in it until she felt like pulling over. It was horrible. It got to the point where I would refuse any liquid for about half a day before we left to go anywhere so I was deliberately too dehydrated to pee, then I’d go to the bathroom over and over again for about an hour before we left. And, yes, I do have some weird, weird baggage.
Have you tried closing your eyes? That might help. 
Nope, I can’t support this pitting. Just learn to wait in line patiently.
I’d like to modify the pitting to “To whoever just invented the soda machines going in place in burger kings that have 19 trillion falvor combinations… Die, just die.”
One, this is touch screen technology which might be cool in my house, but is USELESS in a fast food place where any elderly person will repeatedly push every part of the machine BESIDES THE TOUCHSCREEN! Two… 19 TRILLION COMBINATIONS! Do you have ANY idea how that is going to slow the line down while Ms. I-can’t-make-up-my-mind and her three screaming brats go back and forth trying to find “Diet Cherry Oompa Loompa Mark IX Coke”???
Jesus god in heaven! The old soda fountains worked fine, and gave enough selection while still moving the line at some sort of acceptable pace. This abomonation will bring the ENTIRE drinks serving process to a screeching halt. For DAYS!
Plus, of course, there’s only ONE of these machines as opposed to the two fountains that were there, and it is DEFINATELY going to break often given the use and abuse it is going to take. There’s a REASON you don’t put delicate electronics in the hands of the stretchpants clad masses!
FFS just let them start flying aircraft while you’re at it. It’d be less complicated than this fucking thing, and probably work better too!
Kindest Regards,
-BouncerWhoJustWantsSprite,NotCherryMangoBanannaSprite-
I like your strategy. I’m going to follow it from now on.
I try my best.
I have to share, I was just behind a guy who put 11 spoons of sugar in his small coffee (yep, I counted) stirred, tasted it and then put a tiny smidgen more sugar in it, tasted again and declared it perfect.
I haven’t seen these yet, but after watching a woman trying to use the self-serve checkout at Safeway this afternoon and getting about two items through while I did my entire checkout, I can see where this could get hairy.
Wouldn’t the back of a clown car be more appropriate?
IMHO, it’s the same mind set that causes people to dig through every pocket and every compartment in thier purse to find exact change despite having a wad of bills right in thier hand that will more than cover it. While people wait behind them at the checkout.
YOU are so 100% inconsiderate!!! The God of Ordering will smite you100%
No refills for you!
Wow! three years almost to the day when the original soda water restuarant graced these pages.
I usually fill my pop (I’m originally from Michigan, so I’m not about to say Yoda or whatever you weird East Coast people say ^_~) almost, but not completely, full. I want what I paid for, but I also want to avoid spillage.
Yesterday I was in line in the supermarket behind someone paying an 840 SEK bill with nothing but 20 SEK notes. 42 of them. And each one had to be individually fed into a machine which scans and decides whether to accept them.
I just patiently waited, checked Facebook on the mobile and continued listening to some music.
I must be doing something wrong.
So to save you 45 seconds, I should get my glass of half soda/half fizz and spend 30 seconds going to my table, 30 seconds going back to the fountain when I’m done with it, 45 seconds in line (like you, behind somebody [OMG] FILLING THEIR CUP!!!,) and then another 30 seconds to go back to my half eaten burger and fries.
No problem. Just tell me why your time is so much more important then mine. Everybody has to wait sometimes. Welcome to RealityLand; here’s your souvenir program and park map.
Enjoy your stay at RealityLand - DESK
You can wait. I’m titrating.
Two to one. Pretty simple, really, when you think about it.
Is that by volume or by weight, though? Cause I’m NOT gonna count individual atoms.