Pond Water II

I went into the break room this afternoon to get a drink out of the machine. Dropped a quarter in the slot and fed a dollar bill into the grabber thingie. I eyed my choice, a Diet 7•UP, punched in my 2 digit code and watched the the drink machine do its dance.

(We have one of those open front jobs with a mechanical beam across that goes up and down with an attached cradle that slides along the beam until it is in front of your selection. Then something in the back of the bottles pushes the row forward one bottle and your drink gets dumped into the cradle. Then the cradle moves down and over into the lower right side and is deposited into the output tray.)

It moves up a couple of rows and to the left some and stops in front of #35. What? I hit 34. The selected Diet 7•UP stays right where it is and a Canada Dry Sparkling Green Tea Ginger Ale is dispensed. Hmmmm, I don’t mind a Ginger Ale every once and a while and green tea I can live with out, but I spent a buck & a quarter on it, so I’ll drink it. Like my last encounter with green tea out the machine at work, I finish about two-thirds of it. Tasted just like what I imaginee pond water would taste like with a little seltzer water mixed in.