cost of soda pop
Just dropped the daughter off at her college. She wanted soda for her room so we drove to the nearby grocery stores. Best price we could find was 2 twelve packs of Coke products ... on sale this week ... was $9. And you had to have the store's shopper card to get that price.
Tried to tell her to start enjoying powdered lemonade mix, cause she won't be able to knock back 1 - 2 cans of diet soda every day at that price. And the campus restaurants charge $2 to $2.50 per bottle of 20 oz soda. We get them for $1 every day.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
