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I finally get a chance to do some blogging in the daytime! Usually I have to blog just before going to bed and I don't do very well then.
I promised to do another episode of Murphy's Law on the road. This one is about Mountain Dew...
I really love Mountain Dew. I love the flavor. I don't drink Mountain Dew for the caffeine though, it only gets my kidneys going overtime and I have to stop at every truck stop!... so
I have been looking for de-caffeinated Mountain Dew for quite a few years now. Whenever I buy a Mountain Dew I always look to make sure there isn't a de-caffeinated version available. All I ever find is the Diet version.. Which I really can hardly drink. .... so
A month ago or so I was in Kansas somewhere at a little truck stop on I-70. I had made a roast beef sandwich and I needed something to go with it. I went into the convenience store and bought a Mountain
Dew. I looked again for a de-caffeinated version but I am really getting tired of looking because there has never been one. This particular day I was really frustrated because I didn't want to do the caffeine thing but I sure wasn't going to buy the Diet version... so
As I was getting back in the truck with my Mountain Dew I noticed a Pepsi Truck at the back door of the Convenience store so I thought..."I am going to go over to that Pepsi man and ask him why Pepsi has never thought of making a caffeine free Mountain Dew"... so
I walk over to the man. He is loading a number of flats of product onto his two wheel cart so I walk up and say... "Sir, I would like to ask you, 'Why doesn't Pepsi make a caffeine free Mountain Dew?... I would sure drink it if it were available'"... I couldn't believe what he did next. He reached down to one of the flats of product on his cart and pulls out a bottle of caffeine Free Mountain Dew. It has a gold label. I stare at the caffeine free Mountain Dew as if it just landed from Mars. I tell the man "I have never seen this before and I have looked for caffeine free Mountain Dew for years!" He looks at me with a tired look and says... "We have had this for a while now but nobody buys it. I always end taking it back to the plant 'out of date'" I really feel stupid but I tell him I will buy it from now on since I know now that it is available.
Since that time I have looked for caffeine free Mountain Dew at every store I come to and have asked every store manager if they carry caffeine Free Mountain Dew and every one tells me... "I have never seen caffeine free Mountain Dew... I don't think Pepsi makes it"
Just my luck... the one Pepsi guy in the world that I ask about caffeine free Mountain Dew and he has it on his cart, and I have never seen it again and nobody knows anything about it!
So much for my Mountain Dew story.
I'm in Hemet for a day. It is Christmas day. I will be leaving to take a load to Oakland for tomorrow morning. Then I hope to be back here in So Calif for Sunday so I can attend our Bible Conference in Burbank. Sue and everybody else is going to Burbank today.
That's all for now... next time I'll tell you about the speeding ticket I received a few years ago. I was apprehended by an officer on foot! True story.. stay tuned. Tom
posted by Tom at 9:46 AM