They were selling a 2-liter bottle of Pepsi for $1.69! On sale! From $1.99! *Gasp* *Ack* Since when has brand name soda been that much?
A little shocked, a lot confused, I walked outside towards my car. To my right a line at the Redbox was beginning to form. DVDs from a vending machine. What a day we live in. Then a question hit me right between the eyes: where did all the soda vending machines go?
Have you ever stopped and asked yourself this one? Where, outside of a theme park or other such places, have you last seen a soda vending machine? And not bottles, but cans. I am talking about a soda can vending machine. Put a quarter in, a 12 oz. can of soda comes out. Now we swipe a credit card and get the newest release starring Jennifer Lopez or Aniston (or insert crap actor whose movie I'll likely never willfully see). Mind decay instead of tooth decay seems to be on the agenda.
Next time I go to the grocery store I want to make a libation of a 12 oz. in honor of those beautiful machines that quenched my thirst on so many Escondido summer days.
Like so many other things, now that I know they're gone, I miss them.
P.S. Do you remember how every store had their own kind? Some play on a real soda name, like Dr A+ at Albertsons. (Am I supposed to think that guy was first in his class or something?) Price Club had Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer. Amazing.
It's why I've forsaken Albertson's and Ralphs, and go to Vallarta, Mi Pueblo, Staters Bros, and Food-4-Less.
ReplyDeleteThat, and watch the ads like a hawk for sales.
Or you could go to Wal-Mart in San Marcos for the vending machine they have outside their entrance. You've gotta go ghetto if you want to find 'em cans.