Maybe Clever…Maybe Just Cheap…Maybe….

Ok, maybe just lazy and dumb. Let’s start with the cheap part. Then look at it from the lazy part. Then look at it from the dumb part. In reality all apply and it’s all typical me.

Cheap Part

 

    I was making a quick run through Dollar General. They have a flavored carbonated water that I just love and it’s cheap. I’m not going to tell you which flavor. I was going to but then you might try it and then tell someone and then everyone will like it and it will be out of stock when I want to buy some. I digress. (Which should actually be the title of my blog) I looked up and I saw the generic Diet Cola for only .75 in the 2 liter bottle. I figured even though I have never had just regular diet cola in generic taste well whatsoever, I would still get it and if I mixed it with alcohol I wouldn’t notice the flavor if I put enough alcohol in it to.

 

Lazy Part

 

    I’ve done this once before and it is the height of laziness but I’m not ashamed of it. I was worn out last night and needed some soda because I didn’t want to drink the generic diet soda so I ordered a pizza just so I could get a two liter delivered with the pizza.

 

Dumb Part

(It seemed clever)

 

    I prefer Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi. So I was trading off getting Diet Pepsi delivered in exchange for being too lazy to drive and get it for myself. I figured I would be clever by mixing the Diet Pepsi with the generic diet to dilute it enough that I wouldn’t know the difference especially when I added Captain Morgan to it. I was wrong. I just wanted a drink to relax so I wasn’t putting enough Captain Morgan in it to kill the dull taste. I also wasn’t putting enough of the Diet Pepsi in to dilute the generic soda enough. It resulted in me only having one watered down heavy on the ice generic liquid that was not satisfying. This morning I got up and tried to have just a mixture of the diet soda’s without the Captain Morgan (I’m not a lush, it’s before noon). I still did not get the right mixture. I should have looked at the label on the generic soda first. I think the fact that it said “New Improved Flavor” meant they were already dealing with a nasty product. If this is improved then I would have spewed the previous version. The experience now lends validity to my habit of wasting money.

 

Sunday 12/6/15