I get so MAD!

June 11th, 2003 at 09:45am Posted by Bill

I drink a lot. A whole lot. Not alcohol, but Diet Pepsi. Not that I don’t drink alcohol, I do drink occasionally, but only at the clichéd “social event.” I drink so infrequently, for example, that we just gave our neighbors a case of beer that was left over from our Super Bowl party. When I do have the occasion to drink, however, I drink a lot. Remember all the tequila I drank when down in Cabo San Lucas? I don’t either. I was told I had a lot of fun.

But I drink a lot of Diet Pepsi. Some days I will go through five 44oz cups. Using a plastic refillable 7-11 Super Big Gulp cup is the way to go. Why pay $1.09 when refills are just $.69? This leads to one of my biggest pet peeves.

You are requested to notify the clerk if you have a refill cup before refilling it, which is to prevent every yahoo who buys a drink in a brand new plastic cup from asking for the refill price. This is an understandable and reasonable request.

There is one Chevron store I visit every morning on the way to work, however, where they seem to be a bit unclear on the concept. Every morning, I bring in my sun-faded, 7-11 plastic cup and get a Diet Pepsi. Every morning the same cashier asks me, in an accusatory “You’re trying to get a drink at a refill price, aren’t you?” tone, if this is a new cup or a refill. I can’t bring myself to point out the fact that not only is the cup very obviously not new, it is not even a Chevron cup.

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