I buy generic stuff at Dollar Tree. $1.25 for a 2.5 liter bottle. As much of it as I drink, I'd better buy generic!!

And you know, it is now 2022. Can't we start having Coke and Pepsi in the same building??? This thing about being either a Coke house or a Pepsi house is ridiculous. I know in older days it was because of kickbacks in the form of lower pricing if they agreed to keep the competition out of the building, but it's not the old days anymore.

I remember when I was a little kid, so long ago Coke came in the little 7 ounce green tinted bottles. We were out for one of those family drives and we stopped in a little diner in some place that hadn't been discovered yet. We sat down. The girl brought menus. I knew I wanted a burger before I got the menu. My father ordered something. She came back in a minute and said they were out of it. He ordered something else. She came back in a minute and said they were out of that too. And in my father's true Bob Newhart sense of humor, he said "Tell ya what. Go back to the kitchen and just bring me a plate or bowl of whatever you still have left."

Then she asked about drinks. I ordered a Coke. When she finished taking our drink orders, I watched her go to the register, take a dime out, put it in the pop machine and get my Coke. When she brought it over I said "You know I could have done THAT..."

Even at 8, I was a smart azz....